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Atlantis and Tru Abutment both can fabricate custom abutments with ASC. I've restored over a thousands cases with Atlantis ASC successfully. IMO the solutions that the major implant companies have, which you described, are terrible. I am not going to add in a second cementation junction and...

A non-hexed imp coping is supposed to only be used for implant bridge cases. Even for implant bridge cases, they aren't really necessary unless the implants were placed at extremely divergent angles. This absolutely needs a new impression. Your goal as a tech should be to make yourself a...

Why bother printing a model with a soft tissue? When I design my implant models, I just cut the model with the crown design. I messed around with printing a soft tissue when we first got a printer, but I soon started rethinking the reason for the soft tissue. On an analog model, it...

We don't mill emax, but if we did, I would find this post very helpful!

this is what i use...

i don't think it's a straumann implant. I am wondering if 3i had a similar system since this was restored 20 years ago when the straumann tissue level solid abutment was being used extensively

Could this be a "solid abutment" like the old strauman tissue level abutments? If it wasn't for the abutment, i would feel a lot more coinfident that it is a biomet 3i implant.

Not that I am aware of.

I think its a Biomet 3i Osseotite implant

In the states, it's getting harder and harder to find and be able to pay techs that can stack porcelain. My lab did a few CrCo cases about ten years ago, but it never took off in the area we serve. We are seeing fewer and fewer porc fused to metal cases and we just wouldn't do a case involving...

i think $80K

They send a tech out. The PM7 doesn't move once it's installed. Its a beast! Our warranty just ended, but we signed up for their yearly maintenance package. So once a year a tech comes out to service our mill. Hasn't happened yet so I am not sure what is all entailed.

We had a wieland mini when we first started milling in house. Then we bought a PM7 about five years ago. We only mill zirc, wax, and pmma. The PM7 is awesome. VERY reliable. Support is excellent. We follow the cleaning guidelines and have only had a couple of down times in the last five...

I always offer to get the scan bodies for the work flows that work best for our lab to our scanning doctors. I don't charge my long term doctors for these scan bodies.

Imagine milling is Keystone's preferred mill. I do a lot of keystone implant restorations. Not sure if the Core3D scan bodies used will allow you to setup an order to send to Imagine though. I had a pretty bad experience with Core3D milling a few years back and haven't used them since...

I am interested in the emax ingots and the Miyo. How much was the Miyo used?

It's the most back-asswards way to restore an implant I've ever run across in my 20+ years. My opinion, it only exists to justify an idea someone had 15 years ago that they invested a crap ton of capitol in and now is totally unnecessary.

Haven't we always been beta testers for pretty much any new piece of hardware, software, or material :)

Here ya go

I lied! The tech I handed off all printing jobs to is nesting them like this now. She was getting some small holes in some of the splints so she started adding supports like in this picture. They are very narrow where they connect to the splint so they come off very easily.