Tru-Lock Abutments

So today I want to introduce a brand new product for Shatkin F.I.R.S.T.® and for our customers. And you’re going to really like this product. What we have is a PEEK abutment. PEEK is a hard resin material that’s made and used in dentistry quite a bit. We’ve fabricated a PEEK abutment that will snap on to the O-ball need dental implants, the MDL O-ball implants.

Now, we have a PEEK abutment that snaps on, no cement. You just snap it on, you can prep it, then you can take your impression like a natural tooth. It has a sham for margin already built into it. So all you do is snap it on to the implant, make sure your implant is just buried a little lower than normal. So approximately a quarter of the square should be under the soft tissue.

You’ll snap that abutment on, it will emerge from the soft tissue and you’ll have an emergence profile tooth. Now, what’s great about this is you can cement the crown to that PEEK abutment, but you don’t have to have any cement to the implant. So if you ever need to remove that crown or bridge, or even a roundhouse bridge, you can simply tap it off with a crown, tapper and remove it, and then you can snap it back in. I think you’re going to really like this product and we’re launching it right now. So if you’re interested in trying it, just give one of our friendly sales reps a call.

You’re going to love it. Thank you for joining me on this Monday Morning minute and we’ll see you next Monday.

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about our Tru Lok abutments. These are the new PEEK material, medical grade abutments that can be snapped right onto the O-ball implant and prepped in the mouth if you need to, and take an impression, just like a standard crown and bridge impression. Here’s one of those abutments.

On this model, it’s very important to remember to put the flat side forward. Why is it that we want the flat side forward? It’s because when the dental lab makes the crowns, they have more room for porcelain by having the flat side forward. Of course, that flat side also is an anti rotational flat side so that the crown wouldn’t rotate and loosen in addition to that.

And this is very hard to remove once it’s pushed on, but I got it off. Inside the Tru Lok abutment is a square internal anti rotational surface. That square will only snap on to the square portion of the implant. So you want the square part of the implant to be facing the buckle as well, especially in the anterior of the mouth. Posterior of the mouth may not be that important, but in the anterior, where you want to have as much room for porcelain, you want the square to be facing the front on the implant.

And then you’ll put that Tru Lok abutment right on top of the O-ball implant. Now, when you put it on, make sure you push it down very hard. It’s not just finger pressure. You need to use an instrument like a back of a mirror handle or a hemostat, and use that and then press on top of that very hard to insert it and lock it in so that it’s seated very firmly and tight. That is what we want to do with these Tru Lok abutments.

And then, of course, you can prep them. We also have our shorter Tru Lok abutments. That’s for the posterior of the mouth. That’s a wider, shorter one, and that’s going to be available within a short time. The other thing I want to make sure is you don’t forget to bill for these abutments.

Bill the insurance company for the abutment on these implants. See the bottom of this screen for the ADA billing code for these Tru Lok abutments. And don’t forget to call our friendly sales staff to find out what special offers we have on both the Tru Lok abutments and the new Tru Lok O-Caps that we talked about last week.