CONCLUSION
This Clinical Perspectives demonstrates state-of-the-art surgical and restorative technological advances in implant dentistry. The Certain® PREVAIL® Implant was introduced as an implant that may preserve bone levels by virtue of a change in the location of the Implant-Abutment Junction (IAJ). The Certain PREVAIL Implant has also been designed with a Full OSSEOTITE® Surface for maximum bone-to-implant contact throughout the length of the implant. Greater bone-to-implant contact has been observed, thus potentially enhancing the documented long-term success associated with the patented OSSEOTITE Surface.
These design characteristics make Certain PREVAIL Implants applicable in most clinical situations as determined by the clinician and perhaps especially important, where only short implants can be used, or in aesthetic situations where maintenance of interdental papillary and buccal bone height is of critical importance. Certain PREVAIL Implants are designed to maintain interproximal bone levels and therefore, provide optimal bone support for interdental papillae and the buccal midfacial gingiva. The gold titanium nitride coating on the Final Encode® Abutment can optimize the aesthetic outcome by removing the gray color associated with metal abutments and replace it with the warm hue associated with gold alloys.
The combination of this new implant design for crestal bone preservation, improved bone-to-implant contact and the advantages of CAD/CAM restorations that are illustrated in this Clinical Perspectives (Figure 20) may allow clinicians to provide more predictable treatment outcomes in their clinical practices.
Contributors
Joseph R. Carpentieri, DDS
Dr. Carpentieri is a prosthodontist in private practice with the Restorative Dental Group of Westchester, White Plains, NY, specializing in prosthodontics and implant dentistry. He is a Fellow in the Department of Implant Dentistry at NYU College of Dentistry, and a Clinical Instructor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center, Department of Graduate Prosthodontics.
Surgical Colleague:
Christopher J. Lane, DDS
Dr. Lane is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in private practice in White Plains, NY and Associate Chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, NY.
Laboratory Colleague:
Brian Ross, MDT
Mr. Ross is a Master Dental Technician with special emphasis on ceramics from East Rockaway, NY.
