Cad-Cam Dental Abutments - How Technology is enhancing Your Dental Implant course

There are three main elements to every dental implant - the implant itself, the dental abutment and the dental prosthesis. Of all of these three components the abutment is the most important. In the past dentists have become frustrated with the abutment and the lack of selection ready but new Cad-Cam procedures are development it easier for dentists to build a dental abutment which is customized to each of their patients. Read on to find out more about how Cad-Cam dental abutments are improving the dental implant procedure.

What is Cad-Cam?

Cad Cam

Cad-Cam stands for Computer Aided create and Computer Aided Manufacture. This procedure is extensively used in the manufacturing world to produce intricate and complicated components which would otherwise be hard to produce using more customary methods. Dental Implant technology has come a long way over the past few years with dentists realising that the best results come from producing components which are directly manufactured to suit the private needs of each patient. Totally customized abutments in the past were impossible with Stock abutments being the only abutment types available. Thanks to Cad-Cam dentists now have far more control over the fit and feel of their patient's implants.

Cad-Cam Dental Abutments - How Technology is enhancing Your Dental Implant course

Stock Abutments
In the past the only abutments ready were stock abutments. As the name suggests these abutments are pre made and sold as they are to be added refined and sculpted in the lab by your dentist. The only formula of modifying these stock abutments is pure subtraction - any way the abutments need to be cut with carbides, diamonds, and stone which makes the process difficult. Over the years the dental commerce has seen vast improvements to stock abutments with a move towards angled and tapered abutments to contribute a better more natural dental fit.
Customized Abutments
A move towards customized abutments has been seen recently. Customized abutments are abutments which utilise a casting formula to heighten the profile of the measure of the abutment which sits under the gum line. This formula has been proven to exact angulation problems for patients but is extremely high-priced and very time consuming. It makes sense that dentists are trying to move towards faster less high-priced methods of producing dental, abutments.
Cad-Cam abutments
Cad-Cam abutment create allows the dentist and the lab to ask a very exact and exact abutment for the implant site. This is done in conjunction with a create create team such as Atlantis. Atlantis use state of the art software and grinding equipment which uses the scan data from the patients dental castings to produce a fully customized abutment which is outpatient exact and more importantly exact for the actual implant area.
Often it is vital for a outpatient to wear a temporary restoration following the exchange of the implant. Cad-Cam means that delayed changes due to the healing of the site area while this time can be taken into account right up until the point at which the abutment is required. 'Gemini' and 'Gemini' plus abutments allow for these amendments.
It is apparent that new digital forms of dentistry are becoming an increasing trend and are creating a world of dentistry in which dentists are able to cater to a patients exact tooth exchange needs. The commerce has grown and changed so much over the last 20 years - who knows where we will be in someone else 20 years.
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