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Letter from the Editor
Clinicians are faced with many challenges when restoring dental implants. One of these is
sculpting the soft tissue into the optimal contours, and then transferring those contours to
the master cast to allow for fabrication of the final restoration. In the past, various attempts
to achieve this goal ranged from modifying healing abutments to adding composite to stock
impression copings. These procedures were often cumbersome and did not offer a simple,
complete solution. With advances in virtual design and CAD/CAM technologies, an array of
prosthetic components can now be custom made — pre- or post-surgically — to address
these issues.
Glidewell Laboratories receives more than 200 implant cases a day, and we routinely see
impressions where a narrow impression coping was utilized. The challenge in these cases
is to create a restoration that has a natural emergence profile. This problem, coupled with
our experience designing and milling custom abutments, led to the development of the
Inclusive ® Tooth Replacement Solution.
At the core of the Inclusive Tooth Replacement Solution is an anatomically shaped transgingival
section that is virtually designed over the proposed implant site. This base design
is then used to create a custom healing abutment or a custom temporary abutment and a
provisional crown. A matching custom impression coping allows for the soft tissue contours
to be transferred to the master cast, resulting in a superior final restoration.
The solution offers flexibility in that the case can be immediately temporized, if appropriate,
or the alternate custom healing abutment can be delivered. The components can easily be
adjusted or modified as needed.
The goal of the Inclusive Tooth Replacement Solution is to provide the clinician with a
complete, restorative-driven solution for a missing tooth, from treatment planning to final
prosthesis, with all of the necessary components and tools, including the implant. This issue
of Inclusive magazine was conceived to introduce you to our laboratory’s new conventionaldiameter
implant system and tooth replacement solution. Eager for your feedback, we
invite you to read the articles and check out the multimedia content available online at
www.inclusivemagazine.com.
Dr. Bradley C. Bockhorst
Editor-in-Chief, Clinical Editor
inclusivemagazine@glidewelldental.com
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