Abstract
Digitalization of edentulous areas restored with dental implants is still considered
a demanding procedure, mainly because of the lack of fixed reference landmarks, together
with an increased interimplant distance. To overcome such limitations, an auxiliary
device is introduced with the 3-fold purpose of stretching the soft tissues with a
fixed object connected to the scan bodies, creating areas with nonhomogeneous architectures
between the implants, and shortening the interimplant distance with the interposition
of solid geometric figures. The rationale was to increase the accuracy of digital
scans in a cast-free digital implant workflow.
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Published online: February 19, 2020
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