A medical that is implantable into a human or animal body or being an augmentation device for strengthening human or animal hard tissue for subsequent implantation of a separate implant. The device includes a sheath element suitable of being brought into contact, during a surgical operation, with live hard tissue and/or with hard tissue replacement material. The sheath element has a, for example, generally elongate shape and a longitudinal bore defining a longitudinal opening reaching from a proximal end of the sheath element into a distal direction, and a plurality of holes in a wall of the opening. Further, the device includes a liquefiable element that is insertable or inserted in the longitudinal opening and at least partly liquefiable by the impact of energy impinging from the proximal side.

Methods, systems, apparatuses and devices for implantation in a soft-tissue biological environment that include a primary layer for containing a filler substance, an interface and a secondary layer, including embodiments where the secondary layer an ePTFE layer, the primary layer is a silicone layer, the interface is mechanical or adhesive and the filler substance can include particulates and lattices.

The invention relates to a scan abutment (2) for determination of the position of the plane of the front face (1.1) of a dental endosseous implant (1), wherein the abutment (2) has a longish, hollow shaft (4) and a base (3) at the bottom side (4.2) of the shaft (4), and the base (3) with at least a part of its bottom side (8.2) is attachable onto the front face (1.1) of the implant (1), wherein the base (3) has a recess (9) extending from the upper side (8.1) to the lower side (8.2) of the base (3), wherein the longish, hollow shaft (4) has from a side wall (10) having at least one through hole (5a) at its outer periphery, wherein the through hole of the side wall (10) extends from the bottom side (4.2) of the shaft (4) to the upper side (4.1) of the shaft, thereby forming a planar surface (6) in the plane (12) between shaft (4) and base (3).

Disclosed is a dental implant with a post element that can be inserted into a jawbone with a mounting element attached to the post element, and a dental element affixed to the mounting element, with the post element designed as a ceramic body of yttrium and/or aluminum oxide stabilized zirconium oxide. The dental implant should have an even additionally improved ingrowth or integration behavior during the osseous implant healing, compared with the prior art. The surface of the dental implant is provided with at least one partial area that has nanoscopic pores or an otherwise executed nanoscopic structure that has a depletion zone with a reduced yttrium and/or aluminum oxide element, compared to the internal volume

A regenerative material in the connective tissues (such as bone, dentin or pulp) regeneration field. More precisely, a connective tissue regenerative material, preferably a bone, dentin or pulp regenerative material, including: a porous polymer matrix having interconnected pores; and non-hydrated calcium silicate particles; wherein: the polymer matrix is anhydrous; the non-hydrated calcium silicate particles have a d.sub.50granulometry, preferably ranging from 0.05 μm to less than the average diameter size of the pores of the matrix; and the non-hydrated calcium silicate particles being coated on the inside walls of the pores of the matrix. Also, a method for preparing the connective tissue regenerative material and uses of the regenerative materials, such as in the dental field; especially, for providing regenerative materials with improved biomechanical and osteoinductive properties (i.e. good migration, adhesion and proliferation of cells; enhanced mechanical properties; and optimal and controlled biodegradability).

A method for making a ceramic body comprised of a ceramic material having an inhibitory effect on bacterial growth is provided. A dental prosthesis may be made of a ceramic material that comprises a molybdenum-containing component on a portion of the prosthesis that contacts the gingival surface of a patient. In one method, a porous zirconia ceramic structure is shaped in the form of a dental prosthesis, and then infiltrated with a molybdenum-containing composition, before sintering to densify the ceramic structure.

An implant device configured to be at least partially in contact with bone on implantation has an improved osteoinductive feature to enhance new bone formation. The implant device has one or more bone growth surfaces extending from a structurally solid feature of the implant device. The one or more bone growth surfaces are configured to mimic adult trabecular bone by having trenches, grooves or surface recesses or prominences exhibiting numerous structural elements or walls not perpendicular to the surface that are non-coplanar or arched extending 20 to 500 microns in depth having an increasing inclination from the surface extending inwardly and not parallel to opposing or adjacent walls forming a random or non-random network. The one or more bone growth surfaces configured to mimic trabecular bone have discernable nano features on the structural elements or walls exhibiting nano scale features of less than 200 nano meters within the network.

A dental abutment system including an abutment, an inlay and screw, wherein the screw at least partially occupies the interior channel of the inlay. A method of manufacturing a dental abutment system and to a control data set including a plurality of control instructions that are configured to, when implemented in an additive manufacturing system, to cause the system to execute at least the step of forming an abutment at the distal end of an inlay using an additive manufacturing process. The screw is a captive screw. The interior channel of the abutment is variable in diameter and the smallest diameter is ≥102% and ≤110% of the width of the screw head and the longitudinal axis of the interior channel of the abutment and the longitudinal axis of the interior channel of the inlay are angled with respect to each other at an angle of ≥5 degrees.

A dental implant evaluation unit is disclosed and described. The dental implant evaluation includes a body portion having threads that mimic the general thread pattern of an actual dental implant, without attempting to copy any of the osseointegrative features of the actual implant. A threaded collar is associated with the body portion, and, in certain embodiments, a safety flange is screwed to the threaded collar. The safety flange prevents the dental implant evaluation unit from infiltrating the sinus of a patient when testing the fit of a maxillary implant. The dental implant evaluation unit can be used by a dentist to evaluate the proper size and fit for an actual dental implant by installing the dental implant evaluation unit, and imaging the same, prior to installing the actual dental implant.

The present invention provides a dental product comprising a base material formed of a zirconia sintered body, and having high aesthetic quality with enhanced fracture toughness and with reduced chipping and cracking in the porcelain layer. The present invention also provides a method for manufacturing such a dental product. The present invention relates to a dental product comprising: a base material formed of a zirconia sintered body, and a porcelain layer, wherein the porcelain of the porcelain layer has a suitable firing temperature of 900° C. or more, and the porcelain layer has a fracture toughness value of 1.20 MPa.Math.m.sup.0.5 or more.