Abutment Selection: Screws, Glues, and Digital Clues

This webinar focuses on patient-specific abutments and the simplicity and reliability they bring to the restorative process, while allowing for functional and esthetic results for each individual patient. Specifically, advancements in screw-retained restorations that provide enhanced efficiency to your existing workflow will be discussed. By optimizing access hole location, improvements in health, esthetics, occlusion and material strength are realized. Retrievability allows the clinician to meet the challenges of physiologic change in patients and eventual repair and replacement of functional and esthetic surfaces of the crown. In short, it’s never been easier to make better implant restorations. This lecture presents Dr. Montana’s private practice perspective and will compare the traditional analog approach of impressing and restoring implants, to the exciting introduction of digital scanning and direct data transfer to the abutment manufacturer.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of the webinar, participants will understand:

• The advantages and limitations of both cement and screw-retained options
• Dental implant abutment selection and design, including angulated screw access
• The comparative approaches for both analog and digital procedures for implant restoration technology

Original Live Recording Date: January 18, 2019 Re-release Date: January 18, 2021 Re-evaluation Date: January 18, 2024
AGD PACE Subject Code: 690 Implants