ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,883, issued on June 24.
"Protective shield for dental implant" was invented by Meysam Mahabadi (Oshawa, Canada), Fariborz Vafaee (Oshawa, Canada), Hamed Bonakdar (Oshawa, Canada) and Seyed Ahmad Moghadasi (Oshawa, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective shield and a method to protect the peri-implant tissue from excess cement in a cement-retained implant are disclosed. The protective shield comprises a lingual wing, a buccal wing and a funnel-shaped protrusion to be seated and extended circumferentially around the abutment or a fixture in tissue-level implants to seal between the abutment or the fixture in tissue-level imp...