With BioHorizons, you can – without compromising treatment quality!
Traditionally, dental implant workflows require multiple visits, with repeated component changes and significant chair time needed for both clinicians and patients. At each visit, a component is removed, for scanning or temporisation, disrupting the peri-implant tissues. Not only does this increase treatment time, but it leads to potential risk of bone remodelling and compromising aesthetic results.
As such, a workflow may take around six to eight months, with an average of five visits required to extract the tooth and carry out grafting, place the implant, fabricate a custom healer, scan the site, and provide a final restoration. With many visits and multiple components, this results in a complex workflow. But it doesn’t have to be this way. With solutions from BioHorizons, treatment times can be reduced without compromising the quality of the treatment provided.
Save chair time
Designed for efficiency, SmartShape® Healers from BioHorizons result in fewer appointments. They integrate a healing abutment, scan body, and anatomical profile into a single component. Ultimately, this simplifies the restorative process, and translates to up to 60% less chair time.[i]
The all-in-one solution, SmartShape® Healers offer:
- Integrated, multi-functional design: combining the healing abutment, scan body, and anatomical profile into a single component, eliminating the need for multiple restorative procedures
- Biological stability and tissue preservation: clinical studies suggest that, by minimising the removal and reconnection of implant components, crestal bone stability is improved and restorative workflows are made more predictable
- A simplified clinical workflow: with fewer components, the procedure is streamlined, reducing chair time and the overall number of clinical steps
- Superior aesthetic and patient outcomes: maintaining a consistent, natural emergence profile while improving the overall patient experience with fewer adjustments and appointments required
For immediate placement cases, the workflow is streamlined further: extract the tooth, place the Tapered Pro Conical implant, place the SmartShape® Healer and scan — with only one follow-up appointment required for placement of the final restoration.
Immediacy for increased productivity
To minimise chair time in appropriate cases, immediate placement facilitates excellent outcomes in the fewest possible appointments.
The Tapered Pro Conical implant provides a predictable solution for immediate treatment, designed for surgical efficiency with a best-in-class conical connection. The conical connection features a long conus, designed to reduce micromovements, and a 7.5º angulation proven to provide superior positional stability.[ii] Additionally, its aggressive threadform – with deep, buttress threads – is designed to enhance primary stability.
The Laser-Lok® surface has been shown – using light microscopy, polarized light microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy – to be effective for soft tissue attachment.[iii],[iv]
Dr Omar Iqbal shares his experience using Tapered Pro Conical implants:
“The conical connection of the Tapered Pro Conical implants boasts a 13-year heritage and has demonstrated evidence of high-precision manufacturing and superior positional stability compared to other conical connections.”
Dr Nick Fahey echoes his sentiment, reflecting on his use of the implant:
“The Tapered Pro Conical with Laser-Lok feature affords high primary stability in immediate cases, with an excellent connection that improves aesthetics, as well as allowing a simple restorative workflow for the clinician.”
Optimal efficiency, with patient care at the heart
Tapered Pro Conical implants work harmoniously with SmartShape® Healers to minimise chair time, boost practice productivity, and provide patients with optimal function and aesthetics.
When dental implant treatment requires fewer appointments, reduced risk of disturbing the soft tissue architecture during healing and increased aesthetic predictability, patients enjoy an overall more positive experience. Further to this, practices feel the benefit, too. With high quality treatment completed 60% faster than traditional workflows, more patients can be treated in a fraction of the time.
Get in touch with the expert team at BioHorizons to discover more about SmartShape® Healers and the Tapered Pro Conical dental implant, and how they can support your workflow!
For further information or to book your 1-hour verifiable CPD Insight Session, please visit https://theimplanthub.com/smartshape-healers
[i] Designed to reduce total office visits by up to 60%
[ii] Moergel M, et al. Radiographic evaluation of conical tapered platform-switched implants in the posterior mandible:1-year results of a two-center prospective study. Clinical Oral Implants Research. 00, 2015;1-8.
[iii] Human Histologic Evidence of a Connective Tissue Attachment to a Dental Implant.
M Nevins, ML Nevins, M Camelo, JL Boyesen, DM Kim.
International Journal of Periodontics & Restorative Dentistry. Vol. 28, No. 2, 2008.
[iv] Histologic evidence of a connective tissue attachment to laser microgrooved abutments: a canine study.
M Nevins, DDS, DM Kim, DDS, DMSc, SH Jun, DDS, MS, K Guze, DMD, P Schupbach, PhD, ML Nevins, DMD, MMSc.
Accepted for publication: IJPRD, Vol 30, No. 3, 2010.
