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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:
May. 26, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 16, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael John Biggs, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sulzer Calcitek, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
433173 ; 433174 ; 206 635 ;
Abstract
A packaging system for dental implants and method for implanting a packaged implant. The packaging system includes a vial and a vial cap forming an enclosure for an implant and driver cap. The driver cap is press fit to both the implant and vial cap and engages the implant to impart driving forces thereto. Once the implant is driven to into position, the driver cap serves as a conventional healing screw to cover the implant.