A device configured to engage and hold a structure (e.g., pin) to be inserted in a hole or opening of a target structure (e.g., a surgical guide) during a surgical procedure (e.g. a dental implant procedure). The device can include a first arm having a first arm end portion with a first groove. The device includes a second arm coupled to the first arm, the second arm including a second arm end portion with a second groove. The device can be transitioned between an open position and a closed position, In the closed position, the first groove of the first end portion and the second groove of the second end portion form an enclosure to securely engage at least a portion of a pin.

The present invention relates to a dental guide system (100) for tooth preparation, comprising an electronic detection system (101) for detecting a three-dimensional actual tooth shape (103-I); a comparing device (105) for ascertaining spatial deviation regions (107), at which the ascertained actual tooth shape (103-I) deviates from a specified desired tooth shape (103-S); and data glasses (109) having a display device (111) for optically displaying the spatial deviation regions (107).

An in-vivo dental surgical guide verification method including: receiving first information including: dental surgical guide information of a dental surgical guide, and hard structure information of a hard structure of a patient's mouth; positioning the surgical guide within the patient's mouth; contacting a stylus to a surface of the hard structure of the patient mouth; acquiring image information corresponding to an image which includes at least a portion of the stylus and a portion of the dental surgical guide therein using an imager; and comparing the image information with the first information.

To improve the precision of a dental restoration, the present invention provides a dental restoration manufacturing method comprising: a first step of preparing a general-purpose wax bite which is formed of paraffin wax, and which is formed to be standardized in correspondence to a preset standard dental arch profile and is arranged between a part in which implantation is to be performed and an opposite corresponding part, and which comprises a variable matching part corresponding to the part in which implantation is to be performed and being softened when heated to the temperature greater than or equal to a preset temperature, and a press protrusion part that is formed integrally with the variable matching part and protrudes to correspond to the opposite corresponding part and that is softened when heated to the temperature greater than or equal to a preset temperature; a second step of respectively acquiring, through an image capture device, a plurality of scanning images of the part in which implantation is to be performed and of the opposite corresponding part, before the general-purpose wax bite is provided and after the general-purpose wax bite is provided in a state where inner and outer surface parts of the heated general-purpose wax bite are corrected by occlusal pressure in consideration of an occlusal vertical dimension of a patient, and a CT image of an oral cavity occluded through the general-purpose wax bite, and transmitting the acquired images to a planning unit; a third step of generating an integrated scanning image by arranging the plurality of scanning images so as to correspond to the occlusal vertical dimension, and generating a three-dimensional planning image by allowing the integrated scanning image to be overlapped and matched with respect to a common part with the CT image; and a fourth step of generating design information about the dental restoration in consideration of the occlusal vertical dimension, on the basis of the three-dimensional planning information, and transmitting the design information about the dental restoration to a manufacturing device, thereby manufacturing a dental restoration.

The present invention relates to dental components used for guiding the insertion of a dental implant into a desired location in a patient's mouth using a surgical guide including a master tube. The present invention includes various components that can be used with the surgical guide and during a dental procedure using the surgical guide.

The invention concerns a set with a bone anchor (2) for an upper or lower jaw (1,17) and a corresponding drilling template (10) for making drill holes in the jaw (1,17), wherein the drilling template (10) contains an anchor plate (3′) of which the shape and dimensions are virtually the same as those of at least the bone side (8) of the bone anchor's (2) anchor plate (3), wherein the drilling template (10) has a connecting element (6′) which is rigidly connected to the anchor plate (3) and whose shape and dimensions are virtually the same as those of the connecting element (6) of the bone anchor (2), wherein a drill guide (12) is provided adjacent to each of said recesses (11) on the drilling template (10) that allows a drill to be appropriately guided in order to make drill holes in the jaw (1,17).

A dental implant instrument set for vertically displacing sinus mucosa to form a space for bone augmentation comprises a bone drill and a sinus curette. The bone drill includes a drill bit for drilling upwardly a hole at a site of the alveolar bone where a tooth is lost, so as to expose sinus mucosa. The sinus curette includes a holding portion and a curette head portion. The curette head portion has one end provided with a turning part for separating from the alveolar bone and displacing the exposed sinus mucosa inward through the hole drilled by the drill bit, so as to form a space for bone augmentation above the site of the alveolar bone where the tooth is lost. The turning part is arranged to be at a first angle between 45 to 135 degrees with the curette head portion.

A dental surgical drill guide assembly and method includes a surgical guide housing and a base frame that fits to both gum tissue and one or multiple small areas of jawbone. The apparatus may be configured to accurately place dental implants according to planned positions. Such apparatus may increase the stability of the surgical guide by clasping and/or contacting the jawbone, while improving the overall fit and minimizing the need of invasive surgery and flapping by also clasping and/or contacting selected areas of the gum tissue at the same time. Self-locking alignment members aid in easy removal, and re-installation, of the surgical guide housing to the base frame.

A bone foundation guide system and method, the system could includes a bone foundation guide including a body forming an open surgical space, the body further having a bottom contoured to reversibly affix to exposed bone of a dental surgical site and a top contoured to match a bottom side of a dental implant surgical guide; at least one anchoring strut that removably attaches to the body with an apex of the anchoring strut further denoting one or more indentations for matching up with and receiving one or more portions of one alveolar ridge that opposes another alveolar ridge supporting the dental surgical site; alternatively to the anchoring struts and a tissue spacing gasket, the dental implant surgical guide that removably connects to the body; and alternatively to the anchoring struts or the dental implant surgical guide, the tissue spacing gasket that removably connects to the body.

A bone foundation guide system has a bone foundation guide including a body that is contoured to reversibly affix to a bone segment of a dental implant surgical site. The body is further contoured to guide the cutting of a portion of the bone segment from a dental implant surgical site and alternatively support a dental implant surgical guide. The body is further contoured to support a bone foundation guide prosthesis as an alternative to the dental implant surgical guide. The bone foundation guide prosthesis combines with the body to accommodate the bone segment portion as placed through the body prior to the bone segment portion being removed from the dental implant site through the use of the body.