BENSHEIM, Germany: Since December 2009, the Sirona inLab system is capable of producing customised zirconium oxide abutments for a wide range of popular implant systems. Following the successful launch with CAMLOG, Sirona has now introduced its own titanium bases for implant systems from Nobel Biocare, Straumann, Astra Tech, Friadent, Biomet 3i and Zimmer. The matching TiBase connector, supplied in a set with the scan body and abutment screw, is adhesively bonded to the milled and sintered zirconium oxide mesostructure.

With the aid of the new inLab 3D for Abutments V3.65, it is now possible to design a zirconium oxide abutment and matching crown in one single step. After the implant position using the inEos scanner is acquired, a fully anatomical crown can be designed in only one step. The mesostructure is created automatically by reducing the crown. Optimum flexibility is ensured by various adjustable parameter settings, e.g. telescope angle, shoulder width and gingival pressure.

Both components ― i.e. the zirconium oxide abutment and the feldspar or glass-ceramic crown ― can be milled on the inLab MC XL unit. Alternatively, users have the option of applying a veneer facing directly to a partially reduced abutment, as is the case with a conventional crown stump. The prefabricated inCoris ZI meso zirconium oxide blocks are rotation-secured. They are available in two different shades and in two connector sizes, which speeds up the milling process.

More information available from Sirona Dental Systems, Inc.