Patent ID: 7104795

Claim:
A dental implant guide for installing a dental implant into a bone, comprising: a probe assembly including at least one pair of a first probe member and a second probe member pivotally mounted about a point of a pivot axis; each of said first and second probe members having a probe end and an indicator end located on opposite sides of the pivot axis, an indicator end point and a probe end point of each probe member are substantially aligned with the point of the pivot axis along a straight line, whereas at least a portion of each probe member is bent, said first and second probe members being configured and dimensioned such that the probe ends of said first and second probe member may straddle the bone at an insertion site at contact points located on opposite sides of the bone, and the indicator ends of said first and second probe members are positioned generally above the insertion site and, when said probe ends straddle the bone, said indicator ends indicate the thickness of the bone at the contact points.