Patent ID: 7214062

Claim:
The method of replicating the relative position of an abutment locked to an implant to an abutment analog received on an implant analog, the abutment having an abutment post formed with a locking taper receivable in a bore of the implant formed through a top surface of the implant, the implant bore formed with a matching locking taper, the abutment post received at a first axial position in the implant bore upon use of a first relatively low insertion force and a second fully locked axial position upon use of a second relatively higher insertion force, the implant bore extending beyond the post of the abutment in the second locked axial position, the abutment analog having an abutment analog post receivable in a bore of the implant analog comprising the method steps of selecting a first reference location on the abutment and a corresponding first reference location on the abutment analog, determining a longitudinal distance d between the first reference location of the abutment and the top surface of the implant when in the second locked axial position, taking an implant analog having a top end surface, forming a longitudinally extending bore through the top end surface of the implant analog extending into the implant analog to a stop surface at a depth selected to limit insertion of the abutment analog to a position at which the corresponding first reference location of the abutment analog is at the longitudinal distance (d) from the top end surface of the implant analog, determining an axial distance from the top surface of the implant to a second reference location of the abutment when in the second locked axial position as a replication distance, forming an index configuration on the abutment analog at the replication distance along the longitudinal axis from the top end surface of the implant analog when the abutment analog is fully inserted in the implant analog with the abutment analog post engaging the stop surface, and inserting the post of the abutment analog into the bore of the implant analog until movement of the post of the abutment analog is limited by the stop surface to obtain a replicated position of the second reference location of the abutment in the second locked position as reflected by an axial position of the index configuration of the abutment analog.