A METHOD AND A TOOL FOR MANUFACTURING A DENTAL IMPLANT AND A DENTAL IMPLANT APPARATUS MANUFACTURED HEREBY

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a dental implant apparatus that comprises an implant and an implant support that can be placed next to one another by means of contact surfaces and that have contours providing security against rotation that are integrally molded on in one piece, that have mutually matching contours providing security against rotation that prevent a rotation of the implant and the implant support in the state placed next to one another. The invention further relates to a tool system for carrying out such a method and furthermore to a dental implant apparatus that is manufactured in a corresponding manner. In accordance with the invention, the contact surface of the implant is ground using a first grinding gauge that has a grinding surface having the shape of the contact surface of the implant attachment and that leaves open the contour providing security against rotation of the implant, while the contact surface of the implant support is ground using a second grinding gauge that has a grinding surface having the shape of the contact surface of the implant and that leaves open the contour providing security against rotation of the implant support.

Claims

1. A method for manufacturing a dental implant apparatus that comprises an implant and an implant support, wherein the implant and the implant support have contact surfaces with which they can be set next to one another and mutually matching contours providing security against rotation that are molded in one piece and that prevent a rotation of the implant and of the implant support with respect to one another in the state placed next to one another, wherein the contact surface of the implant is ground using a first grinding gauge that has a grinding surface having the shape of the contact surface of the implant attachment and leaves out the contour providing security against rotation of the implant; and in that the contact surface of the implant support is ground using a second grinding gauge that has a grinding surface having the shape of the contact surface of the implant and leaves out the contour providing security against rotation of the implant support.

2. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the grinding gauges are each only used for one grinding process and/or a new grinding gauge is used for each implant and for each implant attachment.

3. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the grinding is carried out by rotating the first grinding gauge relative to the implant about a grinding axis of rotation that extends coaxially to the axis of the security against rotation of the left out contour providing security against rotation of the implant and/or is carried out rotationally by rotating the second grinding gauge relative to the implant support about a grinding axis of rotation that substantially extends coaxially to the axis of the security against rotation of the left out contour providing security against rotation of the implant support.

4. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the grinding is carried out using a grinding paste between the first grinding gauge and the implant and/or between the second grinding gauge and the implant support.

5. The method in accordance claim 1, wherein a grinding gauge material that corresponds to the material of the implant support and/or to the material of the implant is used as the first grinding gauge.

6. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein one or more of respective conical, cylindrical, planar, egg-shaped, and rotationally symmetrical contact surface sections are ground using the first and second grinding gauges.

7. A grinding tool system, comprising: an implant and an implant support, wherein the implant and the implant support have contact surfaces with mutually matching contours that are molded integrally and that prevent a rotation of the implant and of the implant support with respect to one another, wherein the contact surface of the implant is ground using a first grinding gauge and the contact surface of the implant support is ground using a second grinding gauge; a first grinding gauge for grinding an implant that has a grinding surface having the shape of the contact surface of an implant attachment that can be placed on the implant and that leaves out a contour providing security against rotation of the implant molded in one piece to the implant and a second grinding gauge for grinding the implant support that has a grinding surface having the shape of the contact surface of an implant to be placed on the implant support and that leaves out a contour providing security against rotation of the implant support molded in one piece to the implant support.

8. The dental implant apparatus comprising an implant and an implant support, wherein the implant and the implant support have contact surfaces with which they can be set against one another and contours providing security against rotation that are molded integrally, the contact surfaces are matched in shape to one another and prevent a rotation of the implant and the implant support with respect to one another in the state placed next to one another, wherein the contact surfaces of the implant and of the implant support are ground.

9. The dental implant apparatus in accordance with claim 8, wherein the contact surfaces of the implant and of the implant support are ground while leaving the contours providing security against rotation open.

10. The dental implant apparatus in accordance with claim 8, wherein the contact surfaces are configured rotationally symmetrically with the axis of security against rotation of the contours providing security against rotation.

11. The dental implant apparatus in accordance with claim 8, wherein the contours providing security against rotation are configured as one or more of a groove surface, a spring surface, a star surface, a polygonal surface, a hexagonal or a octagonal surface.

12. The dental implant apparatus in accordance with claim 10, wherein the contact surfaces are shaped conically, cylindrically, planar or similar to an egg.

13. The method of claim 5, wherein a grinding gauge material that corresponds to the material of the implant or to the material of the implant support is used as the second grinding gauge.

Description

[0022] The invention will be explained in more detail in the following with reference to an advantageous embodiment and to associated drawings. There are shown in the drawing:

[0023] FIG. 1 a schematic representation of the grinding of an implant with a first grinding gauge that leaves out the contours providing security against rotation and only grinds the contact surface of the implant, with the part view (a) showing in a total view the grinding gauge placed on the implant and the implant; the part view (b) showing a front-side plan view of the grinding gauge and its grinding surface; and the part view (c) showing front-side plan view of the implant that shows the cylindrical or conical contact surface and the lower set contour providing security against rotation and the screw reception bore;

[0024] FIG. 2 a schematic representation of the grinding of the implant support, with the part view (a) showing in a total view the grinding gauge set at the implant support; the part view (b) showing a front-side plan view of the implant support and its contour providing security against rotation; and the part view (c) showing a front-side plan view of the grinding gauge; and

[0025] FIG. 3 a schematic representation of the ground implant and of the ground implant support in the state set against one another.

[0026] As FIG. 3 shows, the implant apparatus 1 can comprise an implant 2 that can be connected with an exact fit to an implant support 3. The implant 2 can, for example, be configured in the form of an implant screw or also in another form to be implanted in a jaw for a dental prosthesis, wherein an implant body, that is approximately cylindrical, for example, is shown in the drawing. The implant support 3 can likewise correspond to a tooth in a manner known per se or can also only correspond to a tooth carrier on which then a further body is placed, with a likewise approximately cylindrical support structure being shown in the drawings.

[0027] As FIG. 3 shows, and also in comparison with FIGS. 1 and 2, the implant 2 and the implant support 3 each have a contact surface 4 and 5 respectively that are matched to one another in shape and that can be configured as complementary to one another. The contact surface 4 of the implant 2 can, for example, have a cylindrical and/or conical inner jacket surface and/or a planar annular surface that can extend substantially transversely to the longitudinal axis of the implant, with a plurality of such planar annular surfaces also being able to be provided, for example being able to adjoin the conical or cylindrical jacket surface like a collar at the top and bottom.

[0028] The implant support 3 can have a contact surface 5 in a corresponding manner that can, for example, be formed as a cylindrical or conical frustrated cone, can therefore in particular have a cylindrical or conical outer jacket surface section and/or can substantially comprise planar annular surface sections.

[0029] In general, the contact surfaces can, however, also be conversely formed; for example, the implant can have a cylindrical or conical contact surface stump and the implant support can have a cylindrical or conical contact surface cut-out. Alternatively or additionally, the contact surfaces can also be contoured in a different manner.

[0030] The contact surfaces can in particular be configured and matched to one another such that they transmit axial forces, i.e. forces acting in the direction of the chewing force and/or transverse forces and/or prevent a tilting of the implant parts with respect to one another.

[0031] In addition to the contact surface 4, the implant 2 comprises a contour providing security against rotation 6 that can, for example, be configured as an inner closing surface and can be arranged coaxially to the contact surface 4. For example, an inner hexagonal cut-out can be provided as a contour providing security against rotation 6 that adjoins the cylindrical or conical contact surface 4 or is arranged lower in the inside of the implant 2. The implant 2 can furthermore have a screw cut-out 7 in which a screw can be fixed that can fix the implant support 3 to the implant 2.

[0032] As FIG. 2 shows, the implant support 3 an have a contour providing security against rotation 6 that corresponds to the contour providing security against rotation 8 of the implant 2 and that can be in the form of a hexagonal stump that can engage into the inner hexagon of the implant 2 and can hereby secure the implant support 3 against rotation with respect to the implant 2. It is, however, understood that other contours providing security against rotation 6 and 8 can also be provided that differ from a circular shape or from a circular cylinder shape, for example in the form of an octagonal contour section or of a contour section formed in a different manner. The contours providing security against rotation 6 and 8 can in particular be configured to prevent a rotation about an axis of rotation 10 that extends centrally in parallel with the direction of the chewing force and surrounds the implant parts.

[0033] As FIG. 1 shows, a grinding gauge 9 is used for the grinding of the contact surface 4 of the implant 2 and the grinding gauge can comprise the same material as the implant 2 or the same material of the implant support 3 and its shape substantially corresponds to the implant support 3, but does not have its contour providing security against rotation 8, that is, the grinding gauge 9 admittedly comprises the cylindrical or conical contact surface stump of the implant support 3, but not its hexagonal stump that forms the contour providing security against rotation 8.

[0034] To grind the implant 2, the grinding gauge 9 and the implant 2 are pressed axially against one another and/or are rotated relative to one another, and indeed abut the axis of the security against rotation 10 of the contour providing security against rotation 6 that can correspond to a main axis or to a longitudinal axis or to a center axis of the implant 2.

[0035] As FIG. 2 shows, a grinding gauge 11 is used for the grinding of the implant support 3 and its grinding surface 13 substantially corresponds to the contact surface 4 of the implant 2, with the grinding gauge 11, however, not having the contour providing security against rotation 6 of the implant 2, but rather leaves open the contour providing security against rotation of the implant support 3. For this purpose, the grinding tool 11 can have a sufficiently large recess 14 in which the hexagonal stump-shaped contour providing security against rotation 6 of the implant support 3 can be contactlessly lowered.

[0036] For the grinding, the implant support 3 is pressed axially against the grinding tool 11 and/or is rotated relative hereto, and indeed about the axis of the security against rotation 10 of the contour providing security against rotation 8 of the implant support 3 that can correspond to a main axis or a longitudinal axis or a central center axis of the implant support.