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Volume 12 , Issue 4
July/August 1992
Pages 279-293

Initiating restorative procedures at the first-stage implant surgery with positional index: a case report

Reiser/Dornbush/Cohen

PMID: 1428608

With the use of a positional index, the restorative dentist and laboratory technician can be provided with an accurate record of implant fixture location after first-stage surgery. Thus it is possible to fabricate a master cast with implant analogs and initiate laboratory procedures immediately after first-stage surgery, and a provisional restoration can be processed and delivered at the time of second-stage surgery. A case report is presented to illustrate the technique.

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