Abstract: Aspects of the present invention include a screw device configured for implantation into human bone for dental and bone restoration purposes, or animal long bone. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention include a surgical screw having a surgical pinpoint tip, a head, a set of threads having a dynamic surgical region including quantified progressing minor diameters and a stabilizing surgical region including a substantially equal and parallel minor diameter between threads, and in some embodiments, an annular region and/or a tapered region. The set of threads are surgically sharp at the crest. The combination of these features enables the screw to be implanted without use of a drill or osteotome and without breaking.

Abstract: A hand-operated tool for embossing a membrane or other soft pliable implant with microgrooves or microgeometries is disclosed. The tool includes an embossing surface such as a pressure plate or roller that includes a specific microgroove or microtopographical pattern. This allows a user such as a clinician to create an embossed surface on a membrane or other implantable device at the time of surgery for the purposes of directing cellular orientation and migration, increasing cell migration velocity and enhancing re-epithelialization rates in various medical and dental applications.

Abstract: A hand-operated tool for embossing a membrane or other soft pliable implant with microgrooves or microgeometries is disclosed. The tool includes an embossing surface such as a pressure plate or roller that includes a specific microgroove or microtopographical pattern. This allows a user such as a clinician to create an embossed surface on a membrane or other implantable device at the time of surgery for the purposes of directing cellular orientation and migration, increasing cell migration velocity and enhancing re-epithelialization rates in various medical and dental applications.

Abstract: A hand-operated tool for embossing a membrane or other soft pliable implant with microgrooves or microgeometries is disclosed. The tool includes an embossing surface such as a pressure plate or roller that includes a specific microgroove or microtopographical pattern. This allows a user such as a clinician to create an embossed surface on a membrane or other implantable device at the time of surgery for the purposes of directing cellular orientation and migration, increasing cell migration velocity and enhancing re-epithelialization rates in various medical and dental applications.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention include a screw device configured for implantation into human bone for dental and bone restoration purposes, or animal long bone. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention include a surgical screw having a surgical pinpoint tip, a head, a set of threads having a dynamic surgical region including quantified progressing minor diameters and a stabilizing surgical region including a substantially equal and parallel minor diameter between threads, and in some embodiments, an annular region and/or a tapered region. The set of threads are surgically sharp at the crest. The combination of these features enables the screw to be implanted without use of a drill or osteotome and without breaking.

Abstract: Bone graft compositions and methods are provided for promoting cellular recruitment bone regeneration. The novel bone graft includes at least one of: fluorapatite nano-crystalline coated non-ceramic hydrophilic hydroxylapatite crystals; and a combination of fluorapatite nano-crystalline coated non-ceramic hydrophilic hydroxylapatite crystals and fluorapatite nano-crystalline coated hydroxylapatite crystal clusters. Methods include treating cells at a bone defect site with the novel bone graft, wherein fluorapatite crystallites from the fluorapatite nano-crystalline coating immediately and continuously release fluorapatite to the cellular environment over the course of treating the cells. The compositions and methods promote cell differentiation, migration, and proliferation. Through the use of compositions and methods provided herein, inhibition of the migration of connective tissue and epithelial cells to bone defect sites is realized for better bone restoration by osteoblast cells.

Abstract: A dental implant having a unique thread configuration, which increases the total load bearing area to maximize support values of a successful implant for the same osteotomy when compared to other implant designs. At least one course of helical threads surrounds an elongated, cylindrical body. In an embodiment chosen for the purposes of disclosure, the threads have relatively broad crestal surfaces, typically having a rounded profile. One or more helical secondary threaded grooves are disposed in the crestal surface of the threads. The helical grooves facilitate collection of bone and promote immediate stabilization and osseointegration of the implant. The broad crestal thread design compresses bone in one direction while bone is being collected by the helical grooves in the opposite direction. The result is that the implant is immediately stable in a patient's jaw. The method of installing the dental implant is also novel.

Abstract: A multifunctional surgical rotary instrument with a corrosion resistant wear reducing hard coating, to be used in a surgical dental motor driven handpiece for preparing an osteotomy for implant insertion, combining the functions of six surgical instruments is described. The multifunctional surgical rotary instrument has structural features that provide the functions of a crestal bone height reducer, an osteotomy locator, an osteotomy lateral redirector, osteotomy drill, tapered countersink, and an osteocompressor. These structural features include a dual-lobed single plane tip that remains where the drilling is initiated without wandering, and facilitates the precise location of the osseous implant site. Advantageously, the instrument can save time and cost in the implant procedure.

Abstract: An improved screw-type implant is designed to be in dynamic equilibrium relative to forces generated at the implant site for bone lamination and osteocompression within physiologic limits. The threads of a selected implant vary in size and pitch relative to the modulus of elasticity for a particular bone region where the implant is to be placed together with a mechanical apparatus for abutment splinting and for an immediate clinical implant fixation.

Abstract: A screw-typed dental implant is featured having rounded threads for providing a controlled radial osteocompressive force against the threaded wall of bone tissue that was previously drilled and tapped. The thread profile provided by the tap is undercut below the external thread surface of the implant causing a compressive force to be exerted against the bone wall. The taps are designed to provide a given thread surface by varying the pitch angle. In this fashion, a greater undercut is provided for mandibular bone tissue as compared to maxillary bone tissue.

Abstract: This invention relates to a prosthetic dental tooth implant for anchoring a tooth to the jaw bone of an individual. The device is a blade like section having a number of circular holes having a slot-like aperture in a bottom portion of the blade to provide flexure of the blade and outwardly bendable prong extending from a top portion of each hole for anchoring engagement against an inner surface of the cortical plates adjacent the aveolar tissue of the jaw bone.