Maxillary One-Piece Transitional O-Ring Implant and Three Standard Bicon implants and their Restoration with an Implant Retained Overdenture

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Patient’s pre-treatment smile.

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Pre-operative site.

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Osteotomy being prepared with 2.0mm pilot bur rotating at 1100RPM with external irrigation.

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Parallel pins seated in pilot osteotomies indicating their trajectories.

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Transitional one-piece o-ring implant about to be removed from its sterile packaging and inserted into a latch rotary driver.

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Transitional one piece o-ring implant inserted into rotary driver prior to being transported to its 2.0mm pilot osteotomy.

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A 2.5mm x 8.0mm 0° transitional one-piece o-ring implant being rotated into its 2.0mm osteotomy.

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Post operative radiograph of transitional one-piece o-ring implant.

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View of three o-ring abutments and an o-ring transitional implant.

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Post operative radiograph revealing three implants and a one-piece transitional o-ring implant.

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Black plastic alignment cap being snapped onto one-piece transitional o-ring implant.

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View of four black plastic alignment caps snapped onto o-ring abutments for the making of a transfer impression.

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Appropriateness of edentulous tray being confirmed.

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Package of impression material.

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Syringe to transport impression material to the edentulous arch.

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Package of impression material.

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Impression material being inserted into edentulous tray.

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Impression material being injected around the muco-buccal fold.

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Impression tray being inserted.

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Impression of edentulous arch.

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Black plastic alignment cap being removed.

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Black plastic alignment cap and transfer die being assembled prior to their being inserted into the edentulous impression for the pouring of a master stone model.

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Black plastic alignment cap being inserted into the edentulous impression for the pouring of a master stone model.

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Four plastic alignment caps on transfer dies in poured stone master model.

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View of wax rim.

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Pink plastic housing being inserted onto transitional one-piece o-ring implant to facilitate stabilization of wax rim.

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Four pink plastic housings inserted onto abutments.

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Wax rim being inserted.

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Initial occlusal registration.

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Initial occlusal registration.

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High lip line being recorded.

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High lip line recorded.

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Recording measurements.

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Recorded measurements.

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Rim being modified.

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View of existing denture.

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Measuring existing denture.

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Measuring existing denture.

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Inserting modified wax rim.

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Inserted modified wax rim.

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Measuring modified wax rim.

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Recorded midline and high lip line on modified wax rim.

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Registration material being injected onto wax rim.

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Recording occlusal relationships.

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Digital image being taken of shade guide against a black plastic background to facilitate the fabrication of an aesthetic overdenture.

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Pink plastic housing being inserted onto transitional one-piece o-ring implant to facilitate stabilization of prosthesis.

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Denture adhesive being added to provide retention for clinical evaluation.

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Preliminary prosthesis being inserted for clinical evaluation.

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Clinical evaluation of prosthesis.

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Confirming measurements.

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Clinical evaluation of prosthesis.

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View of processed denture.

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Separating medium being injected around abutments.

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Rubber dam aprons being placed over abutments to prevent extraneous acrylic from locking around the abutments.

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Pink plastic housing being inserted onto o-ring abutment, since titanium housing would be seen through thin flange of the denture.

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Titanium housing being inserted onto o-ring abutment.

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Separating medium being applied to denture to prevent inadvertent reline of the prosthesis during the housing pick up into the denture.

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Denture being inserted to confirm appropriateness of its fit over the housings.

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Denture being inserted to confirm appropriateness of its fit over the housings.

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Acrylic being injected into denture for the retention of the housings.

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Acrylic being injected around housings for retention of the housings.

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Patient clenching on two cotton rolls until the acrylic around the housings is completely polymerized to assure that the denture will be EVENLY TISSUE BORNE.

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Palatal view of prosthesis.

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Occlusal view of prosthesis.

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View of seated prosthesis.

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Articulating paper being used to mark occlusal contacts.

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Adjustment of premature contact point.

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Blue markings indicating occlusal contacts.

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View of seated prosthesis.

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One week post insertion view of seated prosthesis.