Patent ID: 7597557

Claim:
A dental implant comprising: a body having a coronal end and apical end; a coronal portion of the body; an apical portion of the body; said apical portion comprising a tapered core with a helical tapered thread extending along said tapered core, said helical tapered thread comprising an apical side, coronal side, a lateral edge connecting said apical side and said coronal side and a base touching said core, said helical tapered thread separating in cross section said tapered core into a plurality of core segments which are each bounded coronally and apically by a thread, each of said core segments has a coronal region adjacent the thread coronal to said core segment and an apical region adjacent the thread apical to said core segment; said apical portion of said body configured so that the apical portion includes at least one region having an imaginary core line connecting said coronal regions, an imaginary core segment line extending between said coronal region to said apical region of the same core segment, and an imaginary thread line extending between the most lateral region of said threads and wherein an angle between a longitudinal axis of said dental implant and said imaginary core segment line is larger than an angle between said longitudinal axis and said imaginary core line, and the angle between said longitudinal axis and said imaginary core line is larger than an angle between said longitudinal axis and said imaginary thread line.