A Customized Healing Abutment for Immediate and Delayed Implant Cases

Anatomically contoured healing abutments have been shown to contain and protect slow-resorbing substitution grafts, resulting in bone and soft-tissue volume augmentation. Even in healed sites customized healing abutments have demonstrated favorable outcomes compared to standard healing abutments. Through two separate cases, this article describes a technique that enables simple chairside fabrication of precisely contoured customized healing abutments and exact 3-dimensional intraoral positioning. With this technique, the soft tissues upon maturation closely resemble the natural root contour, which allows for the generation of esthetic and functional implant-supported restorations.