This treatment demonstrates the extraction of a mandibular primary tooth and the immediate placement of a 5.0 x 6.0mm Bicon SHORT® Implant using the one-stage technique with a tranmucosal temporary abutment. Implant-level and abutment-level impression techniques are also shown, as well as the insertion of the Integrated Abutment Crown™ (IAC).
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2.0mm Pilot Drill being used to initiate a pilot osteotomy immediately after the tooth extraction.
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Gold Paralleling Pin seated in the 2.0mm pilot ostetomy.
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Light green 2.5mm Latch Reamer being used to widen the osteotomy.
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Light blue 3.0mm Latch Reamer being used to widen the osteotomy.
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Blue 3.5mm Latch Reamer being used to widen the osteotomy.
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Violet 4.0mm Latch Reamer being used to widen the osteotomy.
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Gray 4.5mm Latch Reamer being used to widen the osteotomy.
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Gold 5.0mm Latch Reamer being used to widen the osteotomy to the diameter of the intended implant.
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5.0 x 6.0mm Bicon SHORT® Implant being transported to its prepared osteotomy with a titanium Temporary Abutment.
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Temporary Abutment being gently tapped with a Standard Seating Tip.
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Temporary Abutment seated in its implant.
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Site being sutured around the Temporary Abutment.
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Sutured site.
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Post-operative radiograph of a 5.0 x 6.0mm Bicon SHORT® Implant with its Temporary Abutment.
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Four-month post-operative clinical view of the Temporary Abutment prior to the implant's uncovering.
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Green 3.0mm titanium Impression Post seated in its implant.
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Green acrylic Impression Sleeve being seated onto its titanium Impression Post.
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Green acrylic Impression Sleeve seated on its Impression Post.
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Impression material being injected around the Impression Post and Impression Sleeve for the making of an implant-level transfer impression.
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6 Series Standard Profile Universal Abutment seated in its implant for the making of an abutment-level transfer impression and a transitional crown.
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Green 6 Series Standard Profile Universal Abutment Impression Sleeve seated on its Universal Abutment for the making of an abutment-level transfer impression.
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Impression material being injected around the Universal Abutment and its Impression Sleeve for the making of an abutment-level transfer impression.
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Temporization Sleeve being seated onto its Universal Abutment for the making of a transitional crown.
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Temporization Sleeve being modified extraorally.
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Temporization Sleeve being modified intraorally.
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Composite material being injected around the Temporization Sleeve for the fabrication of a transitional crown.
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Vacupress being used with composite material for the fabrication of a transitional crown.
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Clinical view of the transitional crown.
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Integrated Abutment Crown™ (IAC) seated in a soft tissue stone model.
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View of the IAC prior to being inserted into its implant.
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Clinical view of the implant well and sulcus.
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IAC being inserted into its implant.
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Floss marked with blue ink being used to confirm appropriateness of the interproximal contacts.
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Facial view of the definitively seated IAC.
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Clinical view of the definitively seated IAC.
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Post-insertion radiograph of a 5.0 x 6.0mm Bicon SHORT® Implant with its IAC.
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Two-year post-insertion radiograph of a 5.0 x 6.0mm Bicon SHORT® Implant with its IAC.
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