Patent ID: 7909607

Claim:
A method for designing a digital abutment for a dental implant fixture, comprising the steps of: a) using digital data obtained from a patient and loaded into a computer system to determine an optimum position for placing an implant fixture at an implant site on the patient by using a digital implant fixture and a digital implant site; b) establishing a digital reference abutment, wherein the digital reference abutment is established at the digital implant site and positioned on the digital implant fixture; c) adjusting the digital reference abutment, wherein said digital reference abutment has a subgingival part and a supragingival part on top of said subgingival part, and an angle between said subgingival part and said supragingival part is adjusted based on an optimum prosthesis position; and d) finalizing adjustment of the digital abutment, wherein said digital reference abutment after adjustment is used for making a digital abutment for placement on the patient.