Patent ID: 8882506

Claim:
A dental implant repair system comprising: a dental implant comprising a threaded outer surface; bone growth promoting material configured for disposal within a body cavity about said dental implant; a protective element configured to overlay the bone growth promoting material, said protective element being porous, flexible and resorbable and defining a first planar surface configured to be in engagement with the bone growth material and a second opposing planar surface configured to engage gingival tissue, the protective element comprising an inner surface defining a central opening that tapers continuously from said second planar surface to said first planar surface; an abutment having a threaded shaft and a head having an upper surface, a lower surface, an outwardly extending flange between said upper and lower surfaces and a circumferential side surface between said flange and said upper surface, said flange being continuously tapered, said shaft engaging a threaded recess of said implant such that said abutment is spaced apart from said threaded outer surface, said flange configured for disposal within said opening to retain the protective element with said implant and a prosthetic device that removably engages said head.