Bicon Dental Implants

Bicon Dental Implants
Company typePrivate company
IndustryDental Implants and Dental Prosthetics.
Founded1994
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsDental implants
implant abutments
individualized CAD/CAM prosthetics (abutments, crowns, bridges, overdenture bars)
components for guided surgery
dental drills
training and education for dental professionals
Website[1]

Bicon Dental Implants is a privately owned company located in Boston, MA. The company specializes in short dental implants that use a locking taper or cold welding connection to secure the abutment to the implant. Bicon is notable and worthy of mention for the following three reasons: First, Bicon implants are extremely short in length.[1][2][3][4] The size of Bicon implants allow them to be placed in regions that are crowded with natural teeth and/or implants, or in regions that would otherwise require bone grafting.[5] Second, the implants do not have the screw-form design typical of other available implants.[6] Third, the abutments are connected to the implant via a locking taper. This is notable from both a medical and engineering standpoint as no other implant company offers an implant with a biological seal at the implant/abutment interface; almost all other implants possess an internal screw to connect their abutments.[6]

  1. ^ Sánchez-Garcés, MA; Costa-Berenguer, X; Gay-Escoda, C (2012). "Short implants: a descriptive study of 273 implants". Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research. 14 (4): 508–516. doi:10.1111/j.1708-8208.2010.00301.x. PMID 20977605.
  2. ^ Yi, YS; Emanuel, KM; Chuang, SK (2011). "Short (5.0 × 5.0 mm) Implant Placements and Restoration With Integrated Abutment Crowns". Implant Dent. 20 (2): 125–130. doi:10.1097/ID.0b013e31820fb67e. PMID 21448021. S2CID 19452864.
  3. ^ Birdi, H; Schulte, J; Kovacs, A; Weed, M; Chuang, SK (2010). "Crown-to-implant ratios of short-length implants". J Oral Implantol. 36 (6): 425–433. doi:10.1563/AAID-JOI-D-09-00071. PMID 20545533.
  4. ^ Schulte, John; Flores, Arturo; Weed, Meghan (2007). "Crown-to-implant ratios of single tooth implant-supported restorations". J Prosthet Dent. 98 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1016/S0022-3913(07)60031-6. PMID 17631168.
  5. ^ Davydova, OB; Kostin, IO (2012). "Experience of using short Bicon implants for treatment of partial and complete teeth loss". Stomatologiia (Mosk). 91 (6): 59–62. PMID 23268222.
  6. ^ a b Misch, Carl E (2008). Contemporary Implant Dentistry (3rd ed.). St. Louis: Elvesier. pp. 1–200. ISBN 9780323043731.