Implants

Grooves Dental provides clinicians a full suite of comprehensive dental implant services to provide their patients the very best custom zirconia or titanium abutments the industry has to offer. We use your implant-level impression and provide a tailor-made CAD/CAM solution created to fit every patients’ individual needs.

At our lab, we craft abutments to the highest esthetic standard, utilizing the implants you prefer from most major manufacturers. A natural-looking emergence is precisely milled and margin contours are designed to ensure ideal soft tissue and crown esthetics while also ensuring excellent gingival health and a beautiful final ceramic result.

Grooves Dental Lab provides a comprehensive dental implant department. We offer fully customized implant abutments in both zirconia and titanium. We use your implant level impression and provide a tailor-made CAD/CAM solution that is created to fit your patients’ individual needs. We can receive scans from any Intra Oral Scanner.

At Grooves, dental implants can be as easy as a crown and bridge with a zirconia abutment. A natural-looking emergence is precisely milled and margin contours are designed to ensure ideal soft tissue and crown esthetics while also ensuring excellent gingival health and a beautiful final ceramic result.

We also work with most major abutment manufacturers and can provide stock abutments when needed. With our complete line of implant offerings, you will be able to successfully create custom solutions to match your patients’ specific needs.

Titanium abutments are commonly used in all regions of the mouth due to their strength.

Zirconia abutments are commonly used in the anterior and combined with all-ceramic or zirconia restorations.

Titanium with gold nitride coating abutments are used for the highest possible level of esthetics.

Use manufacturer’s tooling to remove healing cap. For multiple units, start in the posterior and work toward anterior. Then, use manufacturer’s tooling to place transfer coping. Ensure components are fully engaged before tightening screw.

Take an X-ray to verify proper seating of components. Next, ensure transfer coping does not hit tray. Use heavy body polyvinylsiloxane impression material. Record impression. Finally, when impression tray is removed, the transfer coping stays in the mouth. Remove transfer coping and replace healing cap.

For multiple units, start in anterior and work toward posterior. Check fit of impression coping into impression. Send to lab.

Seat abutment. Torque screw into place per manufacturer’s recommendations. Next, use composite to fill over the implant screw.

Cement restoration over implant with a resin-reinforced ionomer (i.e., RelyX, 3M ESPE).

PreFab Abutments

Grooves Dental Lab provides a comprehensive dental implant department. We offer fully customized implant abutments in both zirconia and titanium. We use your implant level impression and provide a tailor-made CAD/CAM solution that is created to fit your patients’ individual needs. We can receive scans from any Intra Oral Scanner.

At Grooves, dental implants can be as easy as a crown and bridge with a zirconia abutment. A natural-looking emergence is precisely milled and margin contours are designed to ensure ideal soft tissue and crown esthetics while also ensuring excellent gingival health and a beautiful final ceramic result.

We also work with most major abutment manufacturers and can provide stock abutments when needed. With our complete line of implant offerings, you will be able to successfully create custom solutions to match your patients’ specific needs.

Titanium abutments are commonly used in all regions of the mouth due to their strength.

Zirconia abutments are commonly used in the anterior and combined with all-ceramic or zirconia restorations.

Titanium with gold nitride coating abutments are used for the highest possible level of esthetics.

Preparation

Use manufacturer’s tooling to remove healing cap. For multiple units, start in the posterior and work toward anterior. Then, use manufacturer’s tooling to place transfer coping. Ensure components are fully engaged before tightening screw.

Take an X-ray to verify proper seating of components. Next, ensure transfer coping does not hit tray. Use heavy body polyvinylsiloxane impression material. Record impression. Finally, when impression tray is removed, the transfer coping stays in the mouth. Remove transfer coping and replace healing cap.

For multiple units, start in anterior and work toward posterior. Check fit of impression coping into impression. Send to lab.

Cementation

Seat abutment. Torque screw into place per manufacturer’s recommendations. Next, use composite to fill over the implant screw.

Cement restoration over implant with a resin-reinforced ionomer (i.e., RelyX, 3M ESPE).

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