Endosseous ramus implant and denture support frame

Claim 1

A lower jaw denture assembly comprising a rigid bar forming a permanent support frame and an artificial denture removably mounted thereon, said bar sized and shaped to correspond to the mandible, each end of said bar formed into an implant and driven rearwardly into the corresponding ramus portion of the jawbone in between the lingual and buccal cortical plates of the ramus at a desired distance above the alvealor nerve, each of said end implants having a flat body portion with a plurality of holes extending laterally therethrough, each of said implants having a width of approximately 2 mm., a depth not exceeding 6 mm., and an overall length of at least 30 mm., each of said end implants also having an upwardly curved bottom edge with the bottom and top edges of the implant converging at the end tip facilitating the driving of the implant into the ramus, said artificial denture of the assembly comprising a foundation of suitable denture material with the artificial teeth held therein, said foundation extending over said bar down to the epithelium on the mandible and firmly but removably held by said bar.