US Patent Issued to TruBridge Dental on May 27 for "Process for preparing a patient's jaw for a full arch teeth replacement" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,818, issued on May 27, was assigned to TruBridge Dental LLC (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

"Process for preparing a patient's jaw for a full arch teeth replacement" was invented by Helena Soomer Lincoln (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for preparing one of a patient's upper and lower jaw for a full arch teeth replacement may include extracting every tooth in a patient's arch to define a corresponding number of post-extraction root sockets, wherein each tooth is extracted atraumatically to substantially maintain the patient's original alveolar bone and original keratinized gingiva, waiting a period of ti...