In my personal experience, I have not ever had an issue with encode abutments not the production process. I am In the neighborhood of about 2k encode abutments to date. As long as you are reviewing abutment design prior to milling, it shouldn’t be an issue. I am in no way endorsed by the company and I work with all Implants and milling centers as it relates to Implants and have had great success with it. There is an option to utilize an encode empowered lab for the digital model production along with abutment design review that will give you more control over the production aspect. It also comes with a lower fee in some instances if you partner with the right lab. This would save you the 10k buy in and treat it on a case by case basis.
I get it, and that may make sense for you, but now you are talking about us having to deal with a surgeon, restoring doc, 3I milling center AND another lab? Way too many cooks in the kitchen. Out of the 5,000+ implants we did last year only about a dozen were encode, and of those, half said they would never do encode again.
This is really a tangential conversation just to see if we can make it make a little more sense to build a better relationship with a couple clinical reps, but not much more than that.
