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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 1991
Filed:
Sep. 07, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shigeru Komatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
433176 ; 433173 ;
Abstract
A dental implant comprises a Y-shaped body including three planar legs which have respective openings defined centrally in sides thereof and extend radially as viewed from above, and a head supported on the body and adapted to be capped by an artificial tooth. The three legs which extend radially outwardly allow the body to be firmly anchored in an alveolar bone of the patient. After the body has been embedded in a groove defined in the alveolar bone, the alveolar bone grows and is joined together through the openings in the legs. As a result, the embedded body becomes more and more secure with time.