Throughout the past five to ten years, the number of different ceramic implants offered by the industry has increased significantly. There are tissue level and bone level implants and two-piece and one-piece systems—the definition of the last of which is up for debate. If a two-piece SDS2.0 implant (SDS Swiss Dental Solutions), for example, is placed at tissue level, as recommended by the manufacturer, it is basically a pseudo one-piece, because the abutment forms one piece with the implant body and, after the healing period, the implant is only extended by cementing the abutment extension before it is then, as a whole, individually ground to gingival level...
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