Dental implant system

Claim 1

A dental implant system, comprising: (a) an implant externally proportioned for securement within a human mandible, said implant including a longitudinal internal bore beginning at a proximal open end of said implant and extending longitudinally to a closed distal end situated substantially at a distal end of said implant thereof, said bore having an unthreaded distal portion comprising a distal bearing surface and an unthreaded proximal bearing surface, comprising said open end thereof, said bore further having, between said distal and proximal bearing surfaces, a threaded portion of substantially uniform diameter and pitch; and (b) an abutment of a dental prosthesis, the abutment having a male element, with an external surface thereof having a distal bearing surface unthreaded and fully complemental to said distal bearing surface of said implant, a proximal bearing surface unthreaded and complemental to said proximal bearing surface of said implant, and a threaded portion of uniform diameter and pitch, extending substantially the length of said male element, complemental to said threaded portion of said bore of said implant, whereby, upon complete threaded securement of said prosthesis abutment to said implant, said distal and proximal bearing surfaces will co-act to define journal means capable of diffusing prosthetic stresses to which the system will, in the course of normal use, become subject.