A - Human Necessities – 61 – C
Patent
A - Human Necessities
61
C
A61C 8/00 (2006.01) A61C 1/00 (2006.01) A61C 3/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2484475
An improved drill guide apparatus, for drilling a dental implant socket in a patient's jawbone, provides for multi-axial adjustment of the angular orientation of the drill bit. This adjustability is accomplished by disposing a guide tube within a spherical swivel ball that is rotatably retained, in ball-and-socket fashion, within a template formed on a model of the affected portion of the patient's jaw. The guide tube projects outward from the swivel ball, through an opening in the template, so that it can be manipulated about any axis, in "joystick" fashion, to orient the guide tube as desired. Once the guide tube is in the desired position, it may be fixed in place relative to the template, after which the template may be positioned in the patient's mouth and then a drill bit may be inserted through the guide tube to drill an implant socket in the patient's jawbone. In alternative embodiments, the swivel ball is slidably mounted within a housing so that both the lateral position and the angular orientation of the socket can be adjusted.
Csillag Zsolt
Tomkins Donald V.
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