What is the difference between healing abutment and cover screw?

There is a hollow in the dental implant with a screw thread. An implant abutment is screwed into this thread to assist the substitute tooth (implant crown, bridge, bar denture, etc.). Following implant surgery, 2 to 3 months of osseointegration need to elapse earlier than the remedy may be resumed with the fabrication of the substitute teeth.

Following implant surgery, the internal of the implant needs to be sealed to shield the screw thread into which the abutment could be positioned from remaining food particles and tissues (bone and gum tissues) over the time of restoration. 

The screw thread of the implants may be sealed both with the aid of using way of

• a cover screw or
• a restoration abutment (gingiva former)

In each instance, positive expert standards need to be met, which want to be taken into consideration through the implanting dental specialist.

The advantage of a cover screw is that it is placed deep underneath, and sealed through, the gums permitting the wound to heal without headaches and minimizing the threat of infections. 

Cover screws are indicated withinside the following instances:

• Bone graft surgery, sinus lift, vertical and horizontal bone graft
• The primary stability of the implant is insufficient with torque values much less than 30 Ncm on installation.
• Smoking patients.

When sealing with a gingiva former (recovery abutment) a taller screw sticking via the gum is inserted into the implant. The recovery abutments mildew the gum into the favored form for the everlasting abutment and teeth substitute to have an excellent gum contour. If the gums are sutured with a gingiva former following implant surgery, three months later the dentist will take precision impressions of a healed gum floor that now does not bleed.

Healing abutments are indicated withinside the following instances:

• The stability of the implant is good enough with torque values exceeding 30 Ncm on set up
• The affected person now no longer smokes.
• No bone graft was changed into carried out at the set up of the implant.
• No provisional denture is worn on the area of the surgery.

For the substitute tooth to be aesthetic and a hit within side the long run, cooperation is needed among the dental workforce and the patient.

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