Patent ID: 8545222

Claim:
A method for dental restoration in an oral environment comprising: (i) placing a sub-crown member comprising an abutment component and a dental implant component into a jawbone, wherein said abutment component and said dental implant component are two separate components and are connected and secured to each other, and wherein said abutment component comprises stainless steel, gold, silver, platinum, iron, palladium, iridium, osmium, rhodium, ruthenium; oxides; carbides such as silicon carbide; borides; nitrides; silicides; salts such as aluminosilicates, silicates such as lithium silicate, aluminates, phosphates, fluorates, zirconates, and titanates; ceramic materials such as a porcelain, a white stone containing alumina, and a glass; polymeric materials; any composites thereof such as inorganic-inorganic composites optionally bound by an organic binder, and polymeric-inorganic composites; and any combination thereof; (ii) directly measuring the shortest distance X 1 between a location L 1 on the surface of said abutment component and the surface of an object surrounding said abutment component in the oral environment; (iii) comparing value X 1 with a predetermined value Y 1 , wherein Y 1 >0; (iv) if X 1 <Y 1 , directly modifying the abutment component on its location L 1 , in the oral environment, to increase said shortest distance X 1 until X 1 ≧Y 1 , in which the modifying of the abutment component is performed by a tool selected from a bur or a rotary file; diamonds; multi-use diamond dental bur; a dental carbide bur made of e.g. tungsten carbide steel; a dental sintered diamond bur; conical milling burs; a dental diamond disc; a tungsten carbide cutter; parallel milling cutter; dental steel bur; and any combinations thereof, wherein before the application of the tool, the abutment component is pretreated to weaken strength on at least location L 1 of the abutment component; and the pretreatment is selected from vaporization, salvation or dissolution with a solvent, a chemical reaction such as etching and degradation using reagents such as HF, a base, an acid, and a complexing agent; (v) optionally repeating steps (ii)-(iv) on one or more of other locations Ln on the surface of said abutment component with corresponding shortest distances Xn and corresponding predetermined values Yn, wherein Yn>0, n is an integer, and n≧2; (vi) directly producing a crown based on the shape of the modified abutment component; and (vii) attaching the crown to the modified abutment component.