Method for treating a screw-cement retained prosthesis and adjustment for a screw-cement retained prosthesis

• US 20060141419A1
• 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:
  US10/544,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20060141419A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 433/201.100
• 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 and an abutment are disclosed. The method for treating the screw-cement retained prosthesis comprises the steps of implanting a fixture in an alveolar bone; engaging an abutment including a first screw hole to the fixture using a screw; 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. The present invention includes advantages of a screw retained prosthesis and a cement retained prosthesis and can solve the problems of the screw and cement retained prostheses. Furthermore, in order to easily separate and remount the bonded abutment and prosthetic appliance from the fixture, an allowance groove, which may provide an allowance space, is formed in a receiving portion.

Claims

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

repositioning and engaging an abutment including a first screw hole to a fixture using a screw;

providing a prosthetic appliance having 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 a border of the prosthetic appliance.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a receiving portion is formed on the lower end of the abutment corresponding to a joining projection formed on an upper end of the fixture, and the receiving portion is divided into a sticking groove stuck to the upper end of the joining projection and an allowance groove providing an allowance space for the joining projection easily to move in the receiving portion, so that the prosthetic appliance can be easily separated from or stuck to the abutment by the allowance groove.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the joining projection and the sticking groove are non-circular.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the allowance groove is formed with inclination from a lower end of the sticking groove so that an allowance space, which is needed to separate and stick the joining projection, is provided and an entry of the joining projection is guided.

6. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the allowance groove is formed in a step shape from the lower end of the sticking groove, so that a circular cylindrical or polygonal cylindrical allowance space with a dimension larger than that of the sticking groove is provided.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of a plurality of the abutments is engaged with each of the fixtures that are implanted at predetermined intervals, and the prosthetic appliance is bonded to the abutments at once.

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

providing an implant wherein an abutment including a first screw hole is engaged with a fixture by a screw and a prosthetic appliance is bonded to the abutment;

forming a second screw hole, which corresponds to the first screw hole, on the prosthetic appliance; and

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

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the prosthetic appliance comprises a metal framework, which is formed at a lower portion thereof and directly receives the abutment, and a porcelain, which is formed on the metal framework, and the metal framework comprises a hole corresponding to the first screw hole in order to form the second screw hole.

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

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

a screw hole formed upward and downward through an abutment body; and

a receiving portion for receiving a joining projection formed on an upper end of a fixture;

wherein the receiving portion comprises a sticking groove stuck to an upper end of the joining projection and an allowance groove providing an allowance space, which causes the joining projection to be easily separated from and joined to the sticking groove.

12. The abutment as claimed in claim 11, wherein the sticking groove is non-circular correspondingly to a shape of the upper end of the joining projection.

13. The abutment as claimed in claim 11, wherein the sticking groove is circular correspondingly to a shape of the upper end of the joining projection.

14. The abutment as claimed in claim 11, wherein a depth of the sticking groove is between 10%˜

80% of the depth of the receiving portion.

15. The abutment as claimed in claim 11, wherein the allowance groove is formed with inclination from the lower end of the sticking groove so that an entry of the joining projection is guided.

16. The abutment as claimed in claim 15, wherein the inclined inner surface of the allowance groove is formed in a conical shape.

17. The abutment as claimed in claim 15, wherein the inclined inner surface of the allowance groove is formed with inclination of from 2 to 45 degrees.

18. The abutment as claimed in claim 11, wherein the allowance groove is formed in a step shape from the lower end of the sticking groove so that a circular cylindrical or polygonal cylindrical allowance space with a dimension larger than that of the sticking groove is provided.

19. The abutment as claimed in claim 11, wherein the allowance groove comprises an inclined allowance space for guiding an entry of the joining projection, formed with inclination from the lower end of the sticking groove, and a step-shaped allowance space shaped of circular cylindrical or polygonal pillar with a dimension larger than that of the inclined allowance groove, formed into a step shape from the lower end of the inclined allowance space.

20. The abutment as claimed in claim 11, wherein the sticking groove is formed in a polygonal cylindrical shape corresponding to the upper end of the joining projection;

the allowance groove is formed with inclination from the lower end of the sticking groove to guide an entry of the joining projection; and

portions adjacent to an inlet of the receiving portion in a connecting portion of the sticking groove and the allowance groove are partially concaved to cause the joining projection to be smoothly moved.