Method for treating a screw-cement retained prosthesis, abutment and implant for a screw-cement retained prosthesis

• US 20060141418A1
• Filed: 03/11/2004
• Published: 06/29/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Young K.U. Heo
• Original Assignee: Young K.U. Heo
• Inventors: Heo, Young Ku
• Application Number:
  US10/544,947
• Publication Number:
  US 20060141418A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 433/173
• CPC Class Codes: A61C 8/0048 Connecting the upper structure to the implant, e.g. bridging bars A61C8/0028 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61C 8/005 Connecting devices for joining an upper structure with an implant member, e.g. spacers
• CPC Class Codes: A61C 8/0054 having a cylindrical implant connecting part
• CPC Class Codes: A61C 8/006 with polygonal positional means, e.g. hexagonal or octagonal
• CPC Class Codes: A61C 8/0068 with an additional screw
• CPC Class Codes: A61C 8/0069 tapered or conical connection

Abstract

A method for treating a screw-cement retained prosthesis, an abutment and an implant are disclosed. The method for treating the screw-cement retained prosthesis, which relates to an internal implant, comprises the steps of providing an abutment comprising a joining projection, repositioning the joining projection to a joining groove formed in the upper portion of a fixture, engaging the abutment to the fixture by using a screw, providing a prosthetic appliance including a screw hole, and bonding the prosthetic appliance and the abutment by interposing dental cement between the abutment and the prosthetic appliance. The present invention includes all of the advantages of screw retained prostheses and cement retained prostheses and at the same time can solve the disadvantages thereof. Using a leading inclined surface formed in the joining projection, the abutment and prosthetic appliance are easily separated from and remounted to the fixture.

Claims

1. A method for treating a screw-cement retained prosthesis, comprising the steps of:

providing an abutment, which comprises a joining projection formed on the lower portion of a body of the abutment and a first screw hole formed upward and downward through the body;

repositioning and inserting the joining projection into a joining groove, which is formed in an upper portion of a fixture correspondingly to the joining projection;

engaging the abutment to the fixture by using a screw corresponding to the first screw hole;

providing a prosthetic appliance including a second screw hole formed correspondingly to the first screw hole; and

bonding the prosthetic appliance and the abutment by interposing dental cement between the abutment and the prosthetic appliance.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising removing the screw through the second screw hole;

separating the bonded prosthetic appliance and abutment from the fixture;

removing the remaining cement; and

polishing the border of the prosthetic appliance.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the joining projection is provided with a sticking portion, which is entirely or partially stuck to the joining groove formed in the fixture and then supports the abutment, and an anti-rotating portion, which is formed adjacently to the sticking portion and then limits a relative rotation of the abutment with respect to the fixture, a leading inclined surface is provided which is formed with the sticking portion or the anti-rotating portion partially removed, due to the leading inclined surface, an allowance space is provided between the joining projection and the joining groove, and using the allowance space, the prosthetic appliance and abutment are easily separated from the fixture.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the joining groove and the joining projection are provided which are formed in a polygonal cylindrical shape the cross-section of which is a polygon, and using a leading inclined surface formed with the joining projection partially removed, the prosthetic appliance and the abutment are easily separated from the fixture.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of a plurality of the abutments is engaged to each of the fixtures that are implanted at predetermined intervals, and in the step of providing the prosthetic appliance, the prosthetic appliance is bonded to the abutments at once by providing the prosthetic appliance, which corresponds to the respective abutments and is integrally formed with the abutments.

6. A method for treating a screw-cement retained prosthesis, comprising the steps of:

providing an implant wherein an abutment, which comprises a joining projection formed in the lower portion of an abutment body and a first screw hole formed upward and downward through the body, is engaged to a fixture with a screw, and a prosthetic appliance is bonded to the abutment;

forming a second screw hole in the prosthetic appliance correspondingly to the first screw hole; and

separating the prosthetic appliance and abutment from the fixture by loosening the screw through the first and the second screw holes.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the prosthetic appliance comprises a metal framework, which is formed at the lower portion thereof and directly receives the abutment, and a porcelain, which is formed on the metal framework, and a hole corresponding to the first screw hole is formed in the metal framework in order to form the second screw hole.

8. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the prosthetic appliance is constituted by a porcelain.

9. An abutment for a screw-cement retained prosthesis, comprising:

a body, which includes a bonding portion bonded to a prosthetic appliance and is formed with a screw hole upward and downward through the body; and

a joining projection, the joining projection formed in the lower portion of the body, and the joining projection comprising a sticking portion, which is entirely or partially stuck to a joining groove formed in the upper portion of a fixture to support the body, an anti-rotating portion, which is formed adjacently to the sticking portion to limit a relative rotation of the body with respect to the fixture, and a leading inclined surface, which is formed with the sticking portion or the anti-rotating portion partially removed,

wherein due to the leading inclined surface, an allowance space is formed between the joining projection and the joining groove, and due to the allowance space, the prosthetic appliance and body are easily separated from the fixture.

10. The abutment as claimed in claim 9, wherein the sticking portion is formed at the lower end of the body in a truncated circular conical shape correspondingly to the joining groove, which is formed in a truncated circular conical shape, the anti-rotating portion, which is formed at the lower end of the sticking portion in an elliptical or polygonal cylindrical shape, is formed integrally with the sticking portion, and the leading inclined surface is provided by partially removing the anti-rotating portion in an inclined direction.

11. The abutment as claimed in claim 9, wherein the sticking portion is formed at the lower end of the body in a truncated circular conical shape correspondingly to the joining groove, which is formed in a truncated circular conical shape, the anti-rotating portion, which is formed at the lower end of the sticking portion in an elliptical or polygonal cylindrical shape, is formed integrally with the sticking portion, and the leading inclined surface is provided by partially removing the sticking portion and the anti-rotating portion in an inclined direction.

12. The abutment as claimed in claim 9, wherein the sticking portion and the anti-rotating portion are integrally formed at the lower end of the body in a polygonal cylindrical shape correspondingly to the joining groove, which is formed in a polygonal cylindrical shape, and the leading inclined surface is provided by partially removing the sticking portion and the anti-rotating portion in an inclined direction.

13. The abutment as claimed in claim 9, wherein the sticking portion is formed at the lower end of the body in a circular cylindrical shape corresponding to the joining groove, which is formed in a circular cylindrical shape, and the anti-rotating portion comprises at least one anti-rotating uneven portion formed in the side surface of the sticking portion correspondingly to uneven portion formed in the inner surface of the joining groove.

14. The abutment as claimed in claim 9, wherein the sticking portion and the anti-rotating portion are integrally formed at the lower end of the body in a truncated pyramidal shape correspondingly to the joining groove, which is formed in a truncated pyramidal shape

15. The abutment as claimed in claim 9, wherein the sticking portion is formed at the lower end of the body in a truncated circular conical shape correspondingly to the joining groove, which is formed in a truncated circular conical shape, the anti-rotating portion comprises at least one anti-rotating uneven portion formed in a side surface of the sticking portion correspondingly to uneven portion formed in the inner surface of the joining groove.

16. The abutment as claimed in claim 9, wherein the body comprises a gingiva portion supported by a platform of the fixture, the sticking portion of the joining projection is formed at the lower end of the body correspondingly to the shape of the joining groove, the anti-rotating portion comprises at least one projection formed in the bottom surface of the gingiva portion, the projection is engaged to a groove formed in the platform of the fixture to limit a rotation of the abutment, the leading inclined surface is provided by removing the sticking portion partially.

17. An implant for a screw-cement retained prosthesis, comprising:

a fixture wherein a joining groove is formed in the upper portion of the fixture; and

an abutment comprising;

a body, which includes a bonding portion bonded to a prosthetic appliance and is formed with a screw hole upward and downward through the body; and

a joining projection, the joining projection formed in the lower portion of the body, and the joining projection comprising a sticking portion, which is entirely or partially stuck to the joining groove to support the body, an anti-rotating portion, which is formed adjacently to the sticking portion to limit a relative rotation of the body with respect to the fixture, and a leading inclined surface, which is formed with the sticking portion or the anti-rotating portion partially removed,

wherein due to the leading inclined surface, an allowance space is formed between the joining projection and the joining groove, and due to the allowance space, the prosthetic appliance and body are easily separated from the fixture.

18. The implant as claimed in claim 17, wherein the joining groove is formed in a truncated pyramidal shape, and the sticking portion and the anti-rotating portion are integrally formed at the lower end of the body in a truncated pyramidal shape correspondingly to the joining groove.

19. The implant as claimed in claim 17, wherein the joining groove is formed in a truncated circular conical shape, and the sticking portion is formed at the lower end of the body in a truncated circular conical shape correspondingly to the joining groove, the anti-rotating portion comprises at least one anti-rotating uneven portion formed in the side surface of the sticking portion correspondingly to uneven portion formed in the inner surface of the joining groove.