An accurate and precise surgical guide for dental procedures, especially a procedure involving a subject with few or no teeth as well as methods for making and use of such guides.

A method for performing an inferior lift in a sinus includes preparing an initial opening in a bone including a marrow section and a hard sinus floor, the initial opening being drilled through the marrow section to a depth just prior to reaching the hard floor of the sinus. A portion of the hard sinus floor is removed using a sonic drilling device. Subsequently any remaining doughnut shaped hard floor of the sinus is removed using a second tip on the sonic drilling device that has an active portion that is substantially limited to 360 degrees about the circumference of the forward direction of the tip but without any forward cutting surface, the second tip configured to remove bone only in the lateral direction of the second tip without substantial cutting contact with the marrow section of the bone clearing a widened opening in the hard sinus floor of the bone.

An implant set device for sinus membrane elevation is provided. Herein, implant set device for sinus membrane elevation includes an initial drill group for an alveolar bone including a multiplicity of initial drills for an alveolar bone, a dilatation drill group for an alveolar bone including a multiplicity of dilatation drills for an alveolar bone, a sinus drill group including a multiplicity of sinus drills, a final drill group including first final drills, and a receiver having a drill region where the drills can be received in a first direction with the effective length increasing in each drill group and the drills can be received in a second direction in which drills of each drill group belonging to the drill group for surgery are arranged in a surgical procedure of the sinus membrane elevation.

A bone foundation guide system having a bone foundation guide with a foundation guide body forming an open surgical space connecting a top of the bone foundation guide body with a bottom of the bone foundation guide body, the bottom contoured to removably affix the bone foundation guide body to the bone of a dental implant surgical site, the body further contoured to guide the cutting of bone from a dental implant surgical site and supporting a dental implant surgical guide; the dental implant surgical guide contoured to removably mate to the bone foundation guide body; wherein a combination of the bone foundation guide and the dental implant surgical guide forms a double open-ended placement channel that passes through a plurality of guiding cylinders held in tandem alignment to aid in the placement of a dental implant that is anchored in a site remote from the mouth.

A bone foundation guide system having a bone foundation guide with a foundation guide body forming an open surgical space connecting a top of the bone foundation guide body with a bottom of the bone foundation guide body, the bottom contoured to removably affix the bone foundation guide body to the bone of a dental implant surgical site, the body further contoured to guide the cutting of bone from a dental implant surgical site and supporting a dental implant surgical guide; the dental implant surgical guide contoured to removably mate to the bone foundation guide body; wherein a combination of the bone foundation guide and the dental implant surgical guide forms a double open-ended placement channel that passes through a plurality of guiding cylinders held in tandem alignment to aid in the placement of a dental implant that is anchored in a site remote from the mouth.

A set of osteotomes have conical tips with free end diameters alternately increasing by a constant increment, k, as a step function, beginning with the first osteotome; and working base diameters alternately increases by a constant increment, C, as a step function, beginning with the second osteotome. For seven osteotomes, the first and second diameters respectively are: 1 mm and 2 mm; 1 mm and 3 mm; 2 mm and 3 mm; 2 mm and 4 mm; 3 mm and 4 mm; 3 mm and 5 mm; and 4 mm and 5 mm. In a first mode all seven osteotomes are used to provide very gradual diameter escalations. In a second mode the first, third, fifth, and seventh osteotomes provide conventional Summers' diameter escalations. In third and fourth modes the first, fourth, and seventh osteotomes, and the second, fifth, and seventh osteotomes respectively provide increasingly more aggressive Summers' type escalations.

A process of using a dental implant for performing an antral procedure. The dental implant comprising an implant body having a proximal portion, a distal portion and at least one internal passageway whereby fluid communication is provided between at least one proximal opening in said proximal portion and at least a first portion of an outside of a distal end of said distal portion via at least one distal opening at or near said distal end. The dental implant is configured for implantation in a position wherein said at least one distal opening being adjacent to or within the sinus cavity and said at least one proximal opening being adjacent to or within the oral cavity, whereby an oro-antral channel is provided allowing for surgically accessing the sinus cavity from the oral cavity via said at least one internal passageway in a minimally invasive manner.

Aspects of the present invention relate to a nozzle for a syringe for injecting blood plasma into a sinus cavity within a patients mouth. The nozzle comprises a body having a passage extending through the body along a longitudinal axis of the nozzle. The passage extends from a proximal end to a distal end of the body and an inlet to the passage is located at the proximal end of nozzle for receiving blood plasma from the syringe. An outlet from the passage is positioned at the distal end of the nozzle for distributing blood plasma in the sinus cavity. The outlet comprises an outlet aperture located on a distal tip of the nozzle and at least one exit gate extending from the passage through the distal end of the body. Aspects of the present invention relate to a thumb tab for plunging a plunger of a syringe, the thumb tab comprising a base portion for attachment to the plunger and a resiliently deformable spring element extending from the base portion. The spring element is moveable from a relaxed position to a compressed position in response to a user pressing on the spring element to depress the plunger within the syringe, in use. Aspects of the present invention relate to an osteotome, the osteotome comprising: a body having a longitudinal axis; the body having a distal end, and the body comprising a distal shoulder extending around an external surface of the body; the distal end of the body extending distally from the distal shoulder, and wherein the distal end of the body tapers in a distal direction from the distal shoulder towards a distal tip along the longitudinal axis.

A surgical instrument for use in a sinus lift procedure and methods for performing sinus lift procedures. A surgical instrument includes a shank having a body portion, a first end, an opposite second end, and a neck portion disposed between the body portion and the first end. The shank body portion defines a first longitudinal axis and the neck portion defines a second longitudinal axis. The shank further defines a head coupled with the first end. The head includes a flat proximal surface that extends radially outward of the neck portion and a domed distal surface opposite the first proximal surface. The second longitudinal axis is perpendicular to the proximal surface.

A dental or dental surgical ultrasonic tool, comprising: a tool body, a connecting device for connection to an ultrasonic source, a working section extending along a longitudinal axis and designed to penetrate into bone to be treated, and a liquid line extending through the tool body in the direction of the working section and ending in at least one opening for the discharge of a liquid, wherein the working section has a distal end face with multiple cutting edges and a lateral surface connected thereto, wherein at least one channel for conveying a liquid is provided in the lateral surface, and wherein the at least one opening of the liquid line is disposed on the lateral surface in the at least one channel or directly adjacent to the at least one channel. Additionally or alternatively, the at least one channel extends helically around the longitudinal axis of the working section.