Two-Stage Implant Placements and their Restoration with Integrated Abutment Crowns™

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First Visit: Pre-operative radiograph.

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Pre-operative site.

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Piezosurgery® device being used to facilitate the extraction.

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View of extracted root.

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Horizontal bony cut is being made with a Piezosurgery® device.

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View of corticotomy with two vertical cuts and one horizontal and crestal cut.

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Second Visit: Four weeks after previous visit View of operative site prior to implant placement.

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Occlusal view of crestal cut.

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

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Paralleling pins in each pilot osteotomy indicating their mesio-distal positioning and trajectories.

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Osteotomy being enlarged with an olive green 2.5mm latch reamer rotating at 50RPM without water irrigation.

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Harvested bone within the flute of a red 4.0mm latch reamer after osteotomy was enlarged with a teal 3.0mm latch reamer and a blue 3.5mm latch reamer at 50RPM.

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Curette being used to remove residual bone while confirming the integrity of the five bony walls of the osteotomy.

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Osteotomy being enlarged with a silver 4.5mm latch reamer at 50RPM without irrigation.

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Harvested bone within the flute of a silver 4.5mm latch reamer.

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Osteotomy being enlarged with a gold 5.0mm latch reamer at 50RPM without irrigation.

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A 5.0 x 6.0mm implant being inserted into the osteotomy.

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View of black polyethylene plug inserted into the well of the implant.

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Implant seating tip attached to an offset driver handle is being used to definitively seat the implant into the osteotomy.

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Harvested bone being placed over the implants.

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Sutured site.

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Post-operative radiograph.

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Third Visit: Four months after previous visit View of site prior to the making of an implant level transfer impression.

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Crestal incision being made.

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Polyethylene healing plug being removed with an angled curette.

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Polyethylene healing plug being removed with an angled curette.

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View of two 3.0mm guide pins seated in the wells of the implants to check the stability of the two implants.

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Two 3.0mm titanium impression posts receiving a very gentle seating tap with an implant seating tip attached to an offset driver.

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View of two 3.0mm titanium impression posts.

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Plastic sleeves placed on the 3.0mm titanium impression posts.

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Impression material being injected around the impression posts for the making of a full arch implant-level transfer impression.

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View of implant-level transfer impression.

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Reducing the height of the posts for occlusal clearance.

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Two modified 3.0mm plastic impression posts being used for a bite registration.

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Acrylic resin being added for the making of a bite registration.

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Acrylic resin and green impression post being removed.

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White temporary abutments inserted into implant wells.

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Fourth Visit: One month after the previous visit White temporary abutments being removed.

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Implant well being cleaned with a cotton-tipped applicator.

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Integrated Abutment Crown™ being inserted.

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Floss is being used to confirm passive interproximal contacts that will not interfere with the engagement of the locking taper of the Integrated Abutment Crowns™.

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Use of articulating paper to check the interproximal contacts.

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Integrated Abutment Crown™ being polished with a gray acrylic polishing wheel.

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Integrated Abutment Crowns™ immediately after being inserted.

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Definitive seating of the Integrated Abutment Crowns™ and engagement of its locking taper connection is being achieved by occlusal pressure on a cotton roll.

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A straight handle with a polyethylene healing plug facilitates directing the tapping forces in the long axis of the Integrated Abutment Crown™.

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Blue markings indicate the need to adjust occlusal contacts.

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Occlusal surfaces of the Integrated Abutment Crowns™ being polished with a pink acrylic polishing wheel.

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View of the definitively seated Integrated Abutment Crowns™.

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Post-insertion radiograph.