DENTAL IMPLANT, INSERTION TOOL FOR DENTAL IMPLANT AND COMBINATION OF DENTAL IMPLANT AND INSERTION TOOL

摘要

A dental implant (201), in particular for insertion into bone tissue of a patient, comprising:- a core body (205) having an apical end (207) and a coronal end (209),- at least one thread (12) extending outwardly from said core body (2),wherein the core body (205) comprises a channel (236) which is open to the coronal end (209) and extends along the longitudinal direction of the implant (201) from the coronal end (209) towards the apical end (207), andthe core body (205) has a drive zone (242), in which drive zone (242) the cross-section of the channel (236) perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the implant (201) has a plurality of radially convex portions arranged along the circumference of the cross-section, wherein each of the radially outermost points of the radially convex portions lies on a respective circle around the center of the cross-section, at least two of these circles having different radii from each other.