摘要 |
A healing cap and emergence profiler for a dental implant anchor are disclosed. The healing cap has a cylindrical head having a threaded opening at the top side, and legs projecting downwardly from the head. The threaded opening receives a threaded tool which will subsequently be employed to withdraw the healing cap from the anchor. The legs are separated by a gap enabling the legs to be urged toward one another when the healing cap is inserted into the anchor. The legs of the healing cap fit through an aperture in the emergence profiler such that the profiler surrounds the head of the healing cap and abuts the top of the dental implant anchor, thereby preventing the regeneration of gingival tissue around the shoulder of the anchor and allowing easy modification of the emergence profiler to surrounding gingival tissue. The emergence profiler would typically be of a biocompatible plastic.
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