Modular dental implant system
This modular “ReAttach” dental implant system uses removable, interchangeable components, providing a non-invasive approach that reduces the costs and risk of maintenance.
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Overview:
UofL researchers have developed novel designs for a modular “ReAttach” system capable of significantly easing the process of dental implant maintenance and correction, reducing or eliminating associated costs and risks. This is achieved through the design’s removable and interchangeable coronal modules, allowing simple replacement of components that are damaged or in need of correction and easy access to the main implant body for maintenance or treatments without need of invasive surgery. This in turn allows for straightforward adaptive treatment approaches in ReAttach modules that would otherwise require both surgery and total implant replacement with more typical one-piece or fixed component devices, representing a dramatic improvement in terms of costs, risks, and patient outcomes.
Highlights:
- Dramatically simplifies the process of maintaining dental implants and correcting implant failures.
- Reduces or eliminates the need for invasive surgery, reducing or eliminating associated costs and risks to patients.
- Allows for the implementation of flexible, adaptive treatments otherwise impractical with more typical implants.
Benefits:
A design of modular dental implants designed to simplify implant maintenance and associated costs and risks to patients.
Applications:
Useful in prosthodontics, oral pathology and surgery: anywhere dental implants are installed and/or maintained.
IP Status:
Patent pending
Inventors:
- Omar Moustafa