Evaluation of Hand Torque Application on Dental Implant Healing Abutments

Abstract

Loss of dental healing abutments can lead to excess cost, lost time, and additional surgeries. Achieving adequate tightening of these healing abutments can prevent this loss. Therefore, the purpose of this in vitro, pilot study, was to evaluate the ability of a single clinician to hand-tighten dental healing abutments of several types and collar heights. This study evaluated two types and two collar heights of dental healing abutments and the clinicians ability to hand tighten these abutments. A customized jig was utilized to stabilize four implants and the clinician hand tightened different healing abutments to each implant. A digital torque meter was utilized to obtain the reverse torque values for each sample in each group.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 21, 2022
Accession Number
AD1186144

Entities

People

  • Jedidiah M. Allen

Organizations

  • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Application Software
  • Corporations
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Department Of Defense
  • Descriptive Analytics
  • Experimental Design
  • Governments
  • Health
  • Information Science
  • Pilot Studies
  • Prostheses And Implants
  • Prosthetics
  • Public Health
  • Screws
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Statistical Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

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