Dental News - Nobel’s Snappy abutments 4.0 and 5.5

Nobel Biocare

Wed. 4 August 2010

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Nobel Biocare recently announced the expansion of its popular Snappy abutment product portfolio with the addition of taller options. Starting immediately, the Snappy Abutment is available in 4.0 and 5.5 mm heights. Thanks to its profile and design, the Snappy Abutment permits clinical use without any modification. In addition, the included snap-on impression coping ensures simplified impression-taking.

The Snappy Abutment is an easy to use prosthetic solution that is highly suitable for posterior restorations, especially in partially edentulous jaws and for single-crown restorations with an implant.

Easy to use

The Snappy Abutment is easy to use and ensures optimal precision. In addition, all the prosthetic components and individual elements required for restoration, e.g. the abutment, abutment screw, impression coping, healing cap and temporary coping, are supplied in a single package. Thus, the Snappy Abutment provides a cost-effective, time-saving and highly functional prosthetic solution.

Efficient restoration

The Snappy Abutment is seated on the implant and the screw is engaged to a torque of 35 Ncm with the Unigrip Driver and prosthetic torque wrench. Once the Snappy Abutment has been secured, the easy-to-use impression coping is snapped in place; an arrow on the impression coping should be oriented buccally. The impression material is then injected around the coping, and a pick-up impression is taken. This technique allows very precise impressions of the Snappy Abutment and the finish line without the need for retraction cord.

The dental laboratory can then use an off-the-shelf abutment replica to prepare the definitive restoration. In addition, a temporary coping for fabricating a provisional restoration is included, allowing the patient to leave the clinician’s practice with a functional tooth. The final restoration for the crown is fabricated by the conventional technique.

For this purpose NobelProcera supplies a full range of restorations for all indications — esthetic and cost effective.

Models and sizes

The improved Snappy Abutment package contains all the components required, including the final abutment, the impression coping used to take the impression, and the temporary coping for fabricating a provisional restoration. The available components are designated with the code 4 or 5-, depending on the height of the abutment used: the Snappy Abutment 4.0 or the Snappy Abutment 5.5.

The Snappy Abutment is available for all Nobel Biocare implant systems, NobelReplace, Brånemark, NobelActive, and for all platform diameters NP, RP, WP and 6.0.

More information is available from Nobel Biocare.

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