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Appointment 1
Taking a verified impression
Take an implant-level impression, including the vestibules, and the palate for maxillary impressions.
Remove the healing abutments from the implants. If the implant sizes are different make sure to keep track where each healing abutment belongs.
Check the soft tissue for redness or swelling.
Place open tray impression posts in each site and hand-torque them.
Lute each post to each other with composite and old burrs shaft. These old burrs will make a rigid bridge between each site. Once all of them are luted together, customized a tray to go over each post.
Verify complete seating with a periapical radiograph.
When using an open tray, practice your path of insertion with your impression tray for proper fit, and make sure that the screws are clearly picking through the holes.
Take a VPS impression using light body around the impression posts and burr shaft and heavy body in the tray.
Take the tray to the patient’s mouth and make sure that no impression material will cover the access holes.
Let it set and remove from the patient’s mouth by unscrewing each screw.
Replace the healing abutments and fill out our trade marked specialized lab Rx.
Call Allure Dental Studio for a pick-up.
Appointment 2
Jaw Relation Records and Shade Selection
Allure Dental Studio will fabricate and provide you a bite rim with two temporary cylinders.
Remove the healing abutments from the implants. If the implant sizes are different make sure to keep track where each healing abutment belongs.
Check the soft tissue for redness or swelling.
With the patient sitting up, seat the bite block in the patient mouth utilizing your conventional denture technique to achieve accurate jaw relation records.
Once finished remove the bite block(s) from the patient’s mouth.
Take an impression of the opposing dentition and an impression of current denture for study model.
Select the shade and mold of the denture teeth. If you are not sure, we can always utilize the patient’s existing denture as a reference for the size and shape.
Select the gingival shade and make sure to tell us which guide you are using. Upon request, we can provide you with a sample guide.
Replace the healing abutments and fill out our trade marked specialized lab RX.
Return the case to Allure Dental Studio including the master model, bite block, bite registration, opposing impression and study model.
Appointment 3
Frame try-in with Lock'n'release bar, abutments, and teeth
Remove the healing abutments from the implants. If the implant sizes are different make sure to keep track where each healing abutment belongs.
Check the soft tissue for redness or swelling.
Clean each site thoroughly and remove any foreign materials.
Now you are ready to try the Lock'n'Release abutments in the patient’s mouth.
Remove from the model one abutment at a time. The Lock'n'Release abutment comes in two pieces. First unscrew the top part and put it aside.
With a Sharpie, make a black mark on the abutment as a point of reference and place it in the patient’s mouth with the black line positioned exactly as it was on the model. Do this for each abutment.
Try-in the setup in the patient mouth. All our frames are ionized pink to blend better in the acrylic.
Group function is preferred with a light occlusion on the anterior.
Evaluate the VDO.
Check for fit, form, function, shade, phonetics, and midline. Make any final adjustments if needed.
Take pictures.
Once you are done with all these steps, remove bar and teeth from the patient’s mouth and each abutment. Place the abutments back on the model with the line facing each other.
Call Allure Dental Studio for a pick-up. Return all components, models, impressions, and our Sequential Prescription™ filled out correctly.
Appointment 4
Final delivery
Remove the healing abutments from the implants. If the implant sizes are different make sure to keep track where each healing abutment belongs.
Check the soft tissue for redness or swelling.
Clean each site thoroughly and remove any foreign materials.
Now you are ready to seat the Lock'n'Release abutments permanently in the patient’s mouth.
Remove from the model one abutment at a time. The Lock'n'Release abutment comes in two pieces. First unscrew the top part and put it aside.
With a Sharpie, make a black mark on the abutment as a point of reference and place it in the patient’s mouth with the black line positioned exactly as it was on the model. Do this for each abutment.
Torque them in following manufacturer recommendation.
Seat the bar over the abutments.
Evaluate the retentions, the bite, the VDO, and make any final minor adjustments if needed.
You can change the retentions to extra soft, soft, or strong.
Have the patient practice the path of insertion with and without you. Make sure they do not go home until they are comfortable with the process.
Take pictures for your own portfolio.
Take a panoramic X-Ray to verify that everything seats well and passively.
Congratulation you are finished.
Make sure to provide your patient with the proper tools to maintain a healthy appliance. Allure Dental Studio partnered with TePe to create a Post-Op Care Kit to meet your patient's needs.