Surgeons and restorative doctors have a number of different workflows available to them that may be employed to arrive at an implant-supported restoration. Each surgical-restorative team will have their own preferred workflow. Also, each patient situation requires its own customized workflow to optimize the end result. The key is that the team works in a collaborative and communicative fashion to determine which workflow is best for each situation. The often-overlooked member of the team, the laboratory technician, is ideally included in this collaborative effort to achieve the best possible result for the most important member of the team: the patient. In this presentation, surgical-prosthetic-technical workflows that include reverse-scan technology (RevEx®), grammetry (EXACT®), photogrammetry (ICam®) and anatomic healing abutments (AHA®) will be discussed.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this presentation participants will have gained an understanding of:
- The various workflows available to produce a provisional or definitive restoration
- The benefits of an integrated team approach for addressing the implant patient
- The optimal situation to employ reverse-scan technology, grammetry or photogrammetry technology.
- Review the benefits of employing an anatomic healing abutment.