Digital implant impressions with the "Individualized Scanbody Technique" for emergence profile support

Clinical Oral Implants Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 395-397

  Joda, Tim ^a,b   Wittneben, Julia Gabriela ^a   Brägger, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dental implant; Digital impression; Emergence profile; Esthetics; Intraoral optical scan; Scanbody

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; HUMAN; TOOTH CROWN; TOOTH IMPLANT; TOOTH PROSTHESIS;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CROWNS; DENTAL IMPLANTS, SINGLE-TOOTH; DENTAL PROSTHESIS DESIGN; DENTAL PROSTHESIS, IMPLANT-SUPPORTED; HUMANS;

EID: 84892899940     PISSN: 09057161     EISSN: 16000501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/clr.12099     Document Type: Article

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