Patent ID: 8105081

Claim:
A surgical drill guide for installing dental implants with predetermined angular alignment and rotational orientation for a dental prosthesis, comprising: a. a base part formed to correspond generally to the shape and contour of a patient's upper or lower mouth, said base part having peripheral edges and having opposite tissue and mouth sides and at least one drill guide hole extending through said base part from said tissue side to said mouth side, said at least one drill guide hole having a central axis at a predetermined angular orientation of said central axis relative to said mouth side and having lateral location relative to said peripheral edges, and b. a set of rotational position indicators on said tissue and mouth sides respectively of said base part for said at least one drill guide hole, said rotational position indicators of each side being at the same rotational position about said central axis of said at least one drill guide hole, said indicators providing a rotational position reference for an implant to be inserted in a hole drilled through said drill guide.