Monday, August 28, 2006

Platform switching is necessary to dental implants?

Dental Implant Abutments

The other day, we were looking at a case from another office, and wondering why the abutments were much smaller, or stepped back from the dental implant itself.
This was quite an old case , so we know that this was not intentional. But what was so interesting was that there was no bone loss in this case. There are other recent studies that have shown no bone loss with an abutment that was step backed from the implant itself. What does that tell us? Some manufacturers have already been offering these types of abutments for quite some time. Is this the future direction for abutments? Feel free to add your feedback below.

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Platform switching is necessary to dental implants?

Dental Implant Abutments The other day, we were looking at a case from another office, and wondering why the abutments were much smaller,...