What's the Advantage of Multi-functional Healing Abutment

 

The development of oral implantology in China has been more than 30 years. With the continuous improvement of oral implant restoration theory and technology, oral implant restoration has attracted high attention from the dental medical community. With the increase of oral health awareness and payment ability, as the solution with the most lasting effect for treating tooth loss, the market penetration rate of implant restoration has been increasing year by year. With the aging population and the increase in the number of missing teeth per capita, China's dental implant industry will also experience explosive growth.

Dental implants are mainly composed of three parts: the "implant" that is implanted into the alveolar bone tissue as the tooth root, the "abutment" that connects the implant and the restoration crown through the gums, and the exposed "crown and bridge restoration". In order to ensure the success of the repair surgery, the selection of implants and prostheses has always been the top priority, and as the "abutment" connecting the implants and prosthetic accessories, it can affect the characteristics of the soft and hard tissues around the implants. The abutment plays an important role in improving the survival rate of implants and improving the aesthetic effect of restorations.

 

In the clinical operation cycle of oral implantology, the application of abutment is mainly divided into "healing abutment" and "restoration abutment":

 

                                  HEALING ABUTMENT

Healing abutments are temporary abutments, which can also be referred to as gingival formers, and their placement is primarily based on the surgical technique followed, i.e. placed during the primary procedure, or exposed during the secondary procedure for non-submerged or submerged implants After the implant is screwed into the implant, the transmucosal transition zone of the implant is formed, and the soft tissue around the implant is guided to heal before the restoration is put in. Try to replicate the contour and size of the missing natural tooth, and ensure that the implant restoration platform can be entered for impression and final abutment placement.

 

                             RESTORATION ABUTMENT

The prosthetic abutment is the permanent abutment, which is responsible for connecting the implant and the prosthesis, providing support and retention for the prosthesis, and at the same time resisting rotation and positioning to coordinate the prosthesis and implantation angle. In three-stage surgery, the healing abutment needs to be replaced with a restoration abutment first, and then the implant restoration can be installed and worn.

 

Although the "healing abutment" only occupies a short-term transitional role in the process of implant restoration, on the one hand, it maintains the shape of the gums, separates the implant from the oral cavity, protects the inside of the implant, and prevents the accumulation of bacteria and residues; On the one hand, it can act as an antibacterial barrier, forming a tight connection between the junctional epithelium and the implant, thereby preventing infection, bone resorption, and soft tissue regression, allowing the implant to grow together with the alveolar bone in a sterile environment, which is crucial to the success of the implant. important. Clinically, if the selection of healing abutment is not paid attention to, or even a healing abutment of one diameter is often used to solve all missing teeth problems, it will cause problems such as "the diameter of the repairing abutment does not match the diameter of the healing abutment, resulting in bone blockage, soft tissue compression, abutment "table loose" and other repair issues. Therefore, rational selection of healing abutments according to tooth conditions and restoration methods is inseparable from the reduction of restoration complications.

 

It should be noted that in order to complete the clinical oral treatment process after using the healing abutment for gingival shaping, the oral impression technique is still needed. The traditional oral impression technique involves installing corresponding closed or open transfer posts on the implanted teeth in the mouth and transferring the oral situation outside the mouth to create a plaster model of the mouth. Data can be obtained through scanning the plaster or directly scanning the mouth using a scanning rod after removing the healing abutment from the implant.
The entire process requires repeated installation and removal of the healing abutment, which not only increases the patient's pain and treatment costs, but also increases the error rate and the demand for the implant surgeon's technical experience, while also increasing the clinical operation time for the doctor.

 

 

Compared with the single function of the traditional round titanium alloy preformed implant healing abutment, the new healing abutment of Chirimen integrates the functions of "healing abutment + transfer rod + scanning rod", which is a 3 in 1 abutment table components. It is characterized by:

 

● Integrated function and cost saving, substituting
transfer coping, scan body, analogy, healing abutment.
Save time, manpower and cost

 

● Relieve patients' pain
Reduce repeated placement of components

 

● No need to take personalized tray mold
Reduce the difficulty of implantation transfer
Easily solve complex implanting transfer problems
Without the traditional complicated operation, the
limited opening of the rear teeth can be easily solved.

 

● Accurate digital transfer, universal for all cases