What is an Abutment? What role does it play in Implant placement?

To create a complete implant tooth, three main parts are needed: the implant post, the porcelain crown and the Abutment. While these two parts are quite familiar, many people wonder what the Abutment is and whether it plays an important role. In fact, the Abutment is the joint connecting the implant post and the porcelain crown, often produced and sold with the implant post to ensure maximum compatibility.

1. What is an Abutment?

In addition to the Implant pillar and the porcelain crown, the Abutment is also an important part to form a complete Implant denture. Specifically, the Abutment is the joint that helps to firmly attach the porcelain tooth to the Implant pillar after completing the bone integration process.

In which, the upper connector will be attached to the porcelain crown to ensure that the tooth is fixed and performs well in chewing function. The lower connector is firmly attached to the Implant pillar to form a complete denture with the body and root like a real tooth.

2. Features of Abutment Implant

Genuine Abutment joints from famous brands usually have the following common features:

– Abutment joints are usually made from pure and pure Titanium material. This is a benign material, highly compatible with the body and does not cause any irritation.

   –   The Abutment will be located on the gum and tightly attached to the Implant pillar and porcelain tooth to create a complete tooth, restoring up to 99% of the chewing ability and aesthetics like real teeth.

   –   The Abutment joint has a lifespan of up to 20 years or even a lifetime like the Implant pillar.

3. Abutment classification

In addition to classifying Abutments according to manufacturing materials such as Titanium, porcelain or precious metals, Abutment joints are also mainly classified based on the following shape characteristics:

  3.1. Standard abutment

Standard abutments are pre-designed and pre-fabricated abutments, which means they will only have one size for common use in all restoration cases. Depending on the position of the tooth, the doctor will apply Abutment with different straight or inclined shapes.

Usually, straight joints will be used for molars, which are teeth with wide, non-tilted tooth root placement angles. Tilted joints are often used for incisors, where the jawbone does not have enough space to insert a straight joint.

  3.2. Customized Abutment

Traditional standard abutments sometimes do not hug the gum line, creating gaps for bacteria to grow and attack the tooth structure. Custom Abutments were created to overcome this shortcoming.

With custom joints, technicians will base on the gum line, the position of the teeth to be placed and the actual surrounding area of ​​the customer to perform the Abutment fabrication. At this time, the accuracy is very high, the gum line will be better protected.

4. Famous Abutment brands today

Usually, Abutments will be produced with Implant pillars to ensure compatibility between the two parts. Therefore, customers can choose Abutment joints from long-standing Implant brands as follows:

  4.1. Straumann Abutment (Switzerland)

Switzerland’s Straumann Implants and Abutments are the top quality Implants on the market worldwide. This type of implant is manufactured and processed with exclusive technology, the product possesses a sophisticated structure and design down to every line and seems to have no defects.

Up to now, more than 14 million Straumann Implants have been distributed and widely used in dental facilities in more than 70 countries around the world, becoming the first choice of dentists when encountering complex dental cases.

  4.2. Dentium Abutment Joint (Korea)

In contrast to the giant Straumann, the Dentium Implant and Abutment Joint from the Asian country is a line of implants with a fairly cheap price, suitable for many different customer segments. However, experts still believe that Dentinum implants are of equal quality to other implant lines.

However, with an affordable price, Dentinum implants still have some disadvantages such as a long bone integration time and few options for implant design.

5. How much does an Abutment cost at BIK International Dental Clinic?

Currently, BIK International Dental Clinic provides dental implant services using genuine Implant posts and Abutment joints with the following specific price list:

 So With the information provided above, BIK International Dental Clinic hopes that you have found a specific answer to the question of what is an Abutment. Abutment joints are often manufactured with Implant pillars to ensure maximum compatibility, so to get the highest dental implant efficiency, customers can choose famous Implant brands such as Straumann, Dentinum,…