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A Tip from one of our mentors on implants

Thomas Monahan Sameer Puri
13 years ago

Here is a great tip from cerecdoctors.com Mentor, Dr. Darin O'Bryan:

“So here is a little trick I do for soft-tissue modeling when doing an implant on a model in 4.0.  

When take your images, take them for upper, lower and buccal bite without your gingival mask. Then place the gingival mask and take a Biocopy image. They will overlay and you can proceed forward to design.

Here is the crown on the model:

And here is the case of the Biocopy of the gingival mask in place:

The tissue was just like it showed in the mouth.

Here are images of the crown on the model and in the mouth. As you can see, we had a little bit of the abutment showing, but #30 not  big deal and it was a little close to the nerve to bury it any further. The patient was happy with the result.

So with the added catalog you can make a Biocopy tissue model when working on models in the lab.  This helps to get the emergence profile correct without having to over-bulk, and then shape with hand pieces.

Thanks Darin – great tip here. I officially name this The O’Bryan Technique for Implants.  :)

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