Oral Health and Dental Management

Clinical case of implant restoration using customized healing abutmen

11^th Asia Pacific Congress on Dental and Oral Health

July 25-27, 2016 Bangkok, Thailand

Kyu-Bok Lee

Kyungpook National University, Republic of Korea

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

Aesthetic impression is emphasized in the recent field of implant restoration. However, there is limitation of creating proper shape of soft tissue as well as cervical emergence profile due to the use of pre-existing healing abutment in the process of initial post-operative soft tissue healing period. Designing the shape of abutment into the final customized abutment instead of its original shape helped to achieve more aesthetic implant restoration by applying healing abutment which could minimize the malposition and recession of soft tissue. In this study, soft tissue healing was promoted using the post-operative customized healing abutment and thereby obtained the result of more aesthetic and functional restoration by minimizing displacement of soft tissue in the process of applying final customized abutment.

Biography :

Kyu-Bok Lee has completed his PhD from Chonbuk National. He is the Professor and Director of the Department of Prosthodontics, Kyungpook National University and Hospital. He has published more than 66 papers in reputed journals.

Email: kblee@knu.ac.kr