US Patent Issued on May 27 for "Devices for conducting subperiosteal minimally invasive aesthetic jaw bone grafting augmentation and their use" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,814, issued on May 27.

"Devices for conducting subperiosteal minimally invasive aesthetic jaw bone grafting augmentation and their use" was invented by Ernesto A. Lee (Bryn Mawr, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices for carrying out subperiosteal minimally invasive jaw bone augmentation and reconstruction procedures, to develop a passageway and surgical site in a concealed area of patient tissue, where the surgical site is not exposed. The devices have shanks with specially configured tips to facilitate maneuvering the device through mammalian tissue to develop a tunnel in the tissue and a remote surgical site within the tissue...