It was the night before ISUS and all was just great, except I could only think ISUS when at the gym or on a date.
The above is true as evidenced by the two photos below. One, a chandelier at a restaurant I noticed while on a date with my wife. I couldn’t help but notice it’s strong resemblance to an inverted Dolder bar. The other was the curl bar at the gym. Here to, all I could think was Hader bar.
Second, it means that dentists or labs that want to experience the benefits of ISUS simply send us their model work and we supply the product to them. The exact process works like this.
- The dentist takes the fixture- level impression of the patient’s mouth and sends it to their regular lab.
- The lab makes the model with fixture replicas in place and fabricates a denture waxup for try-in.
- Once the denture is confirmed, the model and denture are sent to Dale where we scan each.
- Both digitize files are used to design an implant bar and attachment placement points that ideally support the denture and lock it in place.
- In the case of an implant bridge, we can use a wax-up of the final desired outcome to scan and design with the fixture level model.
- The waxup is then virtually cut back to create the shape of the underlying implant bridge.
Once the lab approves the design - through a web based viewer file - it is sent to oversized cad/cam mills where the final product is milled from a solid puck of titanium ( for bars ) or cobalt chrome ( for bridges ). There are number of ceramics that can be used to layer for the bridge.
The ISUS advantages are many when compared to a denture without a bar, or a bar made through casting and welding. See sell sheet. If you are getting implant bars or bridges from a lab that are made by casting and welding, or if you are a lab actually doing the casting and welding…then please consider the following benefits.
- CAD/CAM bars are precision machined for a perfect and passive fit every time.
- CAD/CAM bars are never cut or welded. Instead they are machined from a solid puck of material…either titanium, a titanium alloy or cobalt chrome.
- CAD/CAM bars through ISUS actually cost less than ordering the parts and casting and welding a bar through the conventional process and certainly creates less mess and take almost no time.
- ISUS bars are compatible with over 200 implant brands/types and can even be done when there are multiple brands on the same arch.
Dale Dental has restored bars on thousands of fixtures since it began offering implant bars and bridges. In February 2008, Dale Dental became the exclusive US distributor of BioCad implant bars (now Nobel Biocare Procera). And in 2009, became the exclusive US distributor for Compartis ISUS.
Anyway, with all that’s going on, you can see why I’ve had ISUS on my mind a lot lately. The official launch of Compartis ISUS at Dale took place on Monday, September 14th . We are all very excited to provide these products to the lab industry and hope you will feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. Linda Downing, CDT is our technical support specialist and she can answer any questions you may have about getting implant overdenture bars and bridges. She can be reached at 888-Get-Dale or LDowning@DaleDental.com
Best,
Dave
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I am trying to understand the processing part of the full denture,
after the bar has been made please explain this to me.
Hello
Is it possible to scan in the models for a ISUS bar with the 3 shape scanner?
The ISUS product has proprietary software both for scanning and design. As yet, the 3Shape scanner cannot be used for designing the bars.