Dentistry and Craniofacial Research

Advances in CAD/CAM materials and techniques for implant prosthodontics

25^th International Conference on Dental Treatment
September 10-11, 2018 Zurich, Switzerland

Roberto Markarian

SLMandic, Brazil

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Dent Craniofac Res

DOI: 10.21767/2576-392X-C3-009

Abstract

Dental implantology is being widely improved with CAD/ CAM technologies introducing new solutions in key steps in implant therapy. Treatment planning, guided surgery, intraoral impressions, restoration fabrication can be accomplished with reduced clinical and laboratorial fabrication steps. Clinicians can now offer better final outcomes for dental implants with better fit and more aesthetic restorations, improved biocompatibility and resistance, thus avoiding inaccuracies that can occur from dental materials and reducing the chance of human errors. Current CAD/CAM systems permit the fabrication of customized abutments using a variety of materials and design strategies. Some dental implant manufacturers recommend that Ti-based abutments should be used and onto which a monolithic crown or a mesostructure can be designed, however directly designing a customized abutment including the implant-abutment interface could be manufactured using materials and strategies from bench-top laboratory machines. Recent scientific findings suggest that CAD/CAM systems can provide accurate implantabutment interface, however some manufacturing factors may interfere with such high standard adaptation, including the use of additive or subtractive strategies, the quality of the milling machine and the intrinsic properties of the preparation material. The objective of this lecture will be to present recent advances in CAD/CAM dental abutment technologies and strategies, to the light of scientific evidence.

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