A method for correcting an angular offset of a dental prosthetic mounted atop an angularly-offset installed one-piece miniature dental implant having a ball-shaped head above a circular neck, includes steps of: (a) unseating the angularly-offset prosthetic; (b) removing a rubber O-ring disposed about the circular neck; (c) providing a replacement nylon cap and metal housing subassembly and incorporating the subassembly into a dental prosthetic cavity; (d) mounting the dental prosthetic upon the angularly-offset installed miniature implant; and (e) angularly translating the mounted dental prosthetic from a first offset angular orientation to a second non-offset angular orientation.

A root portion of a root-analog dental implant may include a core positioned in an approximate center of the root portion of the dental implant. The core may provide mechanical strength and/or support for the dental implant and may include one or more struts. The root-analog dental implant may further include a porous surface positioned on a portion of a vertically oriented exterior surface of the core. The struts may be configured and arranged to provide mechanical strength and/or support for the root-analog dental implant.

The invention relates to an implant (1) comprising a support structure (5) which is prepared for anchoring, following the contours of the bone, in a jaw- and/or cranial bone (2), wherein at least one integrally attached post (7) protrudes from the support structure (5), said post being designed to have a finished denture anchored thereto and the post (7) having a base (9) that is formed out of the support structure (5) and is completed by a distal end region (10) with the interposition of a radially enlarged region (11). The invention also relates to a soft tissue displacement system (19) comprising an implant (1), a manufacturing process for a soft tissue displacement system (19) and a planning process for manufacturing an implant (1).

A base for a dental implant system which includes a long cavity which optionally reaches below the implant top and/or allows a significant portion of a superstructure to be inserted into the cavity and possibly held using axial support.

A system, device and method for restoring the use of a damaged dental implant. The system, device and method utilizes a dual thread fixation screw capable of coupling an abutment or abutment assembly to the damaged dental implant, therein rescuing the damaged dental implant.

An implant system and a method of forming the implant system including an implant to be implanted into living bone. The implant includes titanium. The implant includes a first surface geometry on a first portion of a surface of the implant and a second surface geometry on a second portion of the surface of the implant. The first surface geometry includes at least a submicron topography including tube-like structures and the second surface geometry includes a first micro-scale topography, a second micro-scale topography superimposed on the first topography, and a submicron topography superimposed on the first and second micro-scale topographies, the submicron topography including the tube-like structures.

A dental implant comprises a composition which comprises a polymeric material which is preferably polyetheretherketone, and an apatite, for example a hydroxy-containing apatite. A prosthodontics device may comprise a dental implant made from polyetheretherketone, an abutment, also made from PEEK, and a crown, which is also made from PEEK by machining from a PEEK disc.

Disclosed are a ball-type attachment device for an overdenture and and a method of producing overdenture to which ball-type attachments are applied. The ball-type attachment device for overdentures according to the present invention relates to an attachment device for implant-supporting overdenture, which includes an abutment configured such that a ball-shaped coupling protrusion is formed at the exposed distal end thereof, and a retainer configured to be separably fitted over the coupling protrusion by a fitting method. The retainer includes: a cushion part made of an elastically deformable material, and configured such that a coupling recession having a shape corresponding to the ball shape of the coupling protrusion is formed so as to allow the coupling protrusion to be separably inserted and fitted into the cushion part; and a fastening part configured to be fastened to the overdenture, and configured such that an accommodation recession configured to accommodate the cushion part is formed so as to allow the cushion part to be inserted and fitted into the fastening part.

A dental implant has a body with a porous metal portion for engaging bone. The porous metal portion has an outer coronal to apical height and an outer diameter. Both the height and diameter are about 4 mm to about 6 mm. This permits the implant to be placed on a jaw with a reduced bone volume.

A dental implant is provided. In some embodiments, the dental implant facilitates viewing an outside of a distal end of the dental implant via a proximal opening of the dental implant, and/or facilitates providing bone graft material via selectively closable one or more distal openings. A dental implant installation procedure is also provided in which a distal end of a dental implant is projected into a paranasal sinus cavity or a nasal cavity to displace the respective sinus membrane or nasal cavity membrane from the respective cavity floor, while minimizing risk of damaging the respective membrane. Bone graft material is introduced into the space created between the respective membrane and the respective cavity floor via a distal portion of the dental implant to form a desired sinus augmentation.