US Patent Issued on Sept. 29 for "Dental / prosthetic implant" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,100, issued on Sept. 29.

"Dental / prosthetic implant" was invented by Elisandro R. Toscano (Orange, Calif.), Michael B. Frankel (Valley Village, Calif.), Yahya Mansour (Dallas), Malek K Mansour (Irvine, Calif.) and Saam Zarrabi (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improvements in a dental/prosthetic implant are disclosed. The implant includes interior and exterior threaded surfaces. The use of both interior and exterior expanding threaded surfaces for integrations of the insert and a prosthetic with the same implant. The implant is immediately usable under load and promotes rapid integration with bone growth. The expan...