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Immediate provisional implant

  • US 6,655,962 B1
  • Filed: 04/18/2000
  • Issued: 12/02/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/17/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A restorative dental method for treating a partially or fully edentulous patient, comprising the following steps:

  • providing one or more permanent implants extending through the crestal bone of a patient'"'"'s mouth at one or more permanent implant sites for supporting one or more final dental restorations; and

    providing one or more provisional implants extending through the crestal bone in the patient'"'"'s mouth adjacent the permanent implant sites for supporting one or more provisional dental restorations, each of the one or more provisional implants including a threaded segment;

    drilling an osteotomy adjacent the permanent implant site;

    twisting the provisional implant into the osteotomy;

    bending a segment of the provisional implant adjacent the threaded segment; and

    whereby one or more provisional dental restorations may be supported by the provisional implants during an initial healing period while substantially avoiding forces being exerted on said permanent implants.

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