dentalssale Introducing the Bicon System, a truly exceptional dental implant system that has been serving the global dental community with unparalleled solutions since 1985. For decades, Bicon’s visionary engineers and clinicians have been at the forefront of groundbreaking innovations in implant dentistry.
The Bicon Dental Implant System boasts a distinctive plateau design, meticulously crafted based on sound bioengineering principles, enabling the use of short implants. Unlike other dental implant systems, its unique bacterially-sealed, locking taper connection between the implant and abutment offers an unmatched 360° range of universal abutment positioning. This level of restorative flexibility ensures aesthetically pleasing restorations, thanks to the maintained bone over the implant’s sloping shoulder, providing essential support for the interdental papillae.
Through its ingenious design and revolutionary clinical techniques, the Bicon Dental Implant System has stood the test of time and continues to lead the way in implant dentistry. We invite you to join Bicon clinicians from around the world and discover the remarkable clinical benefits of Bicon Dental Implants for both you and your patients.
The Fascinating Journey of the Bicon Design
The roots of the Bicon System date back to 1968 when Thomas Driskell conducted initial research at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. The original implant design employed high-density aluminum oxide as the implant material. Over the years, the design evolved, and in 1982, Driskell introduced the Titanodont implant, crafted from titanium alloy. The pinnacle of his work came in 1985 when he patented the DB Precision Implant, which we now know as the Bicon Dental Implant System. Little did Driskell realize that this revolutionary implant system, coupled with Bicon’s clinical support, would shape the landscape of implant dentistry in the 21st century.
Why Embrace the Bicon Dental Implant System?
The Bicon Dental Implant System is a game-changer for restoring dentitions without relying on screws. This unique approach eliminates the limitations and frustrations associated with screw usage, benefiting clinicians, technicians, and patients alike.
Advantages for the Restorative Dentist
With the Bicon System’s 360˚ universal abutment positioning and sloping shouldered implant, clinicians can consistently achieve aesthetically pleasing restorations. Bicon offers both conventional and revolutionary restorative techniques, including the cementless and screwless Integrated Abutment Crown™ (IAC), significantly reducing chair time compared to natural teeth restorations.
Benefits for the Surgical Specialist
Bicon’s dental implant design goes beyond predictable and versatile placement techniques, providing a bacterially-sealed implant-to-abutment connection. Bicon SHORT® Implants simplify treatments, leading to higher patient acceptance of dental implants.
Enhanced Experience for the Patient
The Bicon Dental Implant System empowers dentists to offer functional and aesthetically pleasing restorations, providing patients with implant prostheses that look and feel like natural teeth. Furthermore, the system eliminates the odors and tastes associated with screws.
A Boon for the Laboratory Technician
Unlike many dental implant systems, Bicon eliminates the need for expensive customized abutments. Technicians receive a conventional or implant-level transfer impression, enabling the straightforward fabrication of various prostheses, including porcelain fused to metal crowns, all-ceramic crowns, fixed, and removable overdentures. For the ultimate in aesthetics and flexibility, the cementless and screwless Bicon Integrated Abutment Crown™ (IAC) can also be easily fabricated.
The Ingenious Bicon Design
The Bicon System wasn’t merely a research project studying osseointegration; it was designed to restore dentition effectively. Its unique 1.5˚ locking taper implant-to-abutment connection adheres to sound bioengineering principles, allowing for universal abutment positioning. Scientifically proven to be bacterially sealed, the implant’s plateaued design encourages the growth of cortical-like bone with central vascular systems around the implant. This bone type grows faster and presents distinct functional capabilities compared to the appositional bone surrounding non-plateaued implants. Additionally, the implant’s sloping shoulder creates space for the interproximal papillae, essential for achieving aesthetically pleasing gingival contours.
Since its introduction in 1985, the Bicon design has always maintained a sensible biological width, now recognized as platform switching. This, along with the harmonious biological design, spares Bicon clinicians and their patients from the frustrations and limitations seen in other implant designs.
Restorative Flexibility at Its Finest
Bicon offers a diverse array of abutments, from temporary and healing to stealth shouldered, non-shouldered, fixed-detachable, Brevis™ overdenture, and Locator® overdenture abutments, providing exceptional restorative flexibility and platform switching. All Bicon abutments are fully interchangeable, thanks to the unique 360˚ universal positioning of Bicon’s locking taper connection. Once clinicians experience the power of 360˚ abutment positioning in their practice, implant dentistry will never be the same for them.
Extra-Oral Cementation & The IAC™
By eliminating screws, Bicon’s restorative procedures become conventional, requiring only standard impression techniques and allowing for intra-oral or extra-oral cementation techniques. With Bicon’s 360˚ universal abutment positioning, the revolutionary Integrated Abutment Crown™ (IAC) was born – a screwless and cementless restoration. The IAC guarantees an aesthetic subgingival crown margin for every restoration without any extra effort or expense for the dentist or technician.
The Power of Platform Switching
Bicon’s complete interchangeability of abutment diameters promotes a sensible biological width, now widely recognized as platform switching. This ingenious biological design ensures impressive bone maintenance.
The Advantages of Bicon’s Sloping Shoulder
Bicon’s sloping shoulder offers greater flexibility during implant placement and ensures remarkable bone maintenance. Its design allows more room for bone over the implant, providing essential support for the interdental papillae and enabling consistent achievement of aesthetic gingival contours.
The 1.5˚ Locking Taper Connection
The 1.5˚ locking taper connection by Bicon boasts a proven bacterial seal at the implant-to-abutment interface, with a microgap of less than 0.5 microns. This bacterial seal effectively prevents microbial leakage, which could lead to inflammation of soft tissue and potential bone loss around the implant.
The Ingenious Plateau Design
Bicon’s plateau or fin design offers at least 30% more surface area than a screw implant of similar dimensions. This design allows the formation of cortical-like bone between the fins of the implant, growing at a remarkable rate of 10-50 microns per day, in contrast to the slower 1-3 microns per day appositional bone growth around non-plateaued implants.
The Efficacy of SHORT® IMPLANTS
Bicon SHORT® Implants maximize implant placement possibilities while minimizing the need for grafting procedures. In many clinical situations, shorter implants prove to be a superior solution.
The Benefits of Low-Speed Drilling
Low-speed drilling at 50 RPM, without irrigation, allows clinicians to harvest the patient’s own bone with titanium reamers for autogenous grafting. This unique and forgiving technique significantly extends the longevity of the titanium reamers, reducing costs for clinicians.
