A modified implant healing abutment to optimize soft tissue contours: a case report
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Edmond H N Pow1, Anne S McMillan
1Oral Rehabilitation, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Implant Dentistry
|December 14, 2004
Abstract:
The soft tissue profile created around a conventional healing abutment may be inadequate to accommodate an anatomically shaped abutment that is larger than a standard machined abutment. This causes difficulties in its insertion and subsequent impression-making and provisional restoration fabrication. This article presents a simple technique to overcome these problems.
