Mini Dental Implants: Soft-Hard Reline Material

I often use this reline material but in post surgical periods and temporarily before the usual 3 months of waiting period at the mandible For the danger of acrylic use a simple thick rubber dam and add vaseline around the implant and you have to watch carefully with a probe or you can make a hole in the buccal flange to help checking the acylic resin getting hard

You are speaking as if there is a 'universal' material that is being touted for use with all ball/o-ring sytems. If so, what product is it? Are you referring specifically to the Dentatus Atlas implant and their reline/retention liner? If so, note that the head of their implant appears oversized compared to others, and that might be how they get retention from the liner material... ie. the usual ball-type heads are quite small (for the o-ring) and the amount of undercut minimal... my guess is the Dentatus liner works with its oversized ball-head but wouldn't provide equivalent retention on other heads.

I have used the "Tokuyama Dental Sofreliner Tough" which is a silicone based soft denture liner. You can generously relieve the underside of the prosthesis to be sure it is seating properly over the abutments and then, quite simply inject the the reline material into your relieved areas and seat for about five minutes. I have used this on the o-ring type abutments and recently used it with two ERA abutments. One case has been in place about a year and is still functioning well. It seems to me that this technique holds promise and is certainly easier than an acrylic pickup.

I have used this technique with the parkell material as well as another that slips my mind. It works well but I find that the material eventually tears around the implant head and needs replacement 1-2 times per year.

I've used the imtec soft material where I felt the bone quality was less than I originally anticipated and therefore wanted a gentler retention. I got none. The material was clear and gelatinous in nature. I attended a seminar recently with the Dentatus people about their Atlas implants and the soft material seems much firmer and is the only retention they recommend with their system.

I am looking for the o-rings for my dental implants. The Dentist that put the implants in is no longer available to me.