Simpler Implant Bodies are the most advanced, most comprehensive selection of implants in the world today. Simpler gives you choices in body shape, size and surfaces to fit any bone type or bone mass. The Simpler Product line offers:
• Threaded or Push in Shape
• Conventional, Wide or Narrow Diameter
• One Stage or Two Stage or Immediate Load
• HA Coated or Grit Blasted, Acid Etched
• Dual Coatings
• Morse Taper Mating Surface
• Microgroove Tissue Guidance Collar
• Square Threads
Threaded or Push-in Shape
The two most common shapes for a dental implant are the Push-in and the Externally Threaded. Although the push-in implant is easier to place than a threaded, many dentists prefer a threaded implant as they feel it has better mechanical retention than a push-in. Simpler Implants are available in both the Push-in and Threaded Shapes.
Conventional, Wide or Narrow Diameter
The available height and width of the bone of edentulous jaws varies considerable from patient to patient and between different areas of the mouth. That is why the diameter of implants vary from below 2.5 mm through to 6 mms and the lengths cover a range from 6 mm to 18 mm or more. The clinician should place the longest, widest diameter implant in the available bone.
Simpler is available in diameters of 2.5, 3.25, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 mm and lengths from 6, 8, 10, 13, 15 and 18 mm.
One or Two stage or Immediate Load
The tops of implants are placed either flush with the top of the bone (Two Stage) where they have little or no loading during healing, flush with the top of the oral mucosa (One Stage) where they have minimal loading or Immediately Loaded where they have more loading. There are some advantages to the One Stage implant such as the elimination of joint at the crest of the bone, the preservation of a keratinized attachment surrounding the implant and reduced trauma to the patient. Narrow Diameter implants are becoming more successful and popular.
Simpler Implants are available in One Stage and Two Stage and Narrow Diameter Immediate Load
Surface: Hydroxylapatite (HA) or Titanium Grit Blasted, Acid Etch Surface
Almost all machined implants today are treated with grit blasting and acid etching. This process increases the macro-surface and the micro-surface area. Many clinicians and authors feel and numerous articles state that an HA coating over the bead blasted, acid etched surface gives the implant a quicker and stronger bond to bone than that found with a solely grit blasted and acid etched surface. Simpler Implants are available in both HA Coated and Uncoated Bead Blasted, Acid Etched Surfaces.
Dual Coatings
Some critics of HA coating suggest that the coatings can come off. While there is very little scientific evidence that this occurs, Simpler Push-in and Simpler One Push-in Implants both have a micro-porous, dual layered, plasma sprayed coating unlike most other HA coated implants which only have a single coating. This dual coating significantly increases the shear strength of the Simpler coatings well in excess of competitive coated implants. Only Simpler implants have this Dual Coatings.
Morse Taper Mating Surface
All two-piece Simpler implants have the more technically secure Morse Taper mating surface. The Morse Taper mating surface eliminates the “gap” and the micro-movement between the abutment and the body of the implant found with the more traditional hex type mating surfaces. This feature eliminates the production of toxic by-products produced in this gap which in turn attack the surrounding bone and soft tissue. Simpler is a pioneer in Morse Taper mating surfaces.
Microgroove Tissue Guidance Collar
All Simpler One Stage and Narrow Diameter implants have an exclusive, patented Microgroove Tissue Guidance Collar making
them the only implants in the world with this tissue guidance feature.
These horizontally placed microgrooves about the neck of an implant improve the performance of implants by significantly impeding epithelial or soft tissue down-growth. Only Simpler implants have this Microgroove Collar.
Platform Switching
“Platform Switching” is really a misnomer. It has come to mean using an abutment which is smaller in diameter than the diameter of the implant. However it is much more than that. Recent scientific articles are showing that if:
1. The diameter of the emerging cover screw, abutment, etc. is smaller in diameter than the diameter of the implant, and
2. The top of the implant is buried below the crest of the ridge at time of placement.
The bone will grow over the top of the implant and around the cover screw/abutment forming a bony biological seal to prevent epithelial migration down the neck of the implant/abutment. Platform switching needs to have both.
Once the bone seal is established and if this bony seal is:
1. Not disturbed during prosthetic restoration, and
2. Not subject to overloading or peri-implant infection such as that found with the micro-gap between implant and abutment of the traditional internal and external mating surfaces, then the seal will be maintained and crestal bone loss is prevented.
Square Threads
All Simpler Threaded implants have a square shaped thread compared to most threaded implants which have a “V” shaped configuration in cross section. The square thread has an increased total load bearing surface area, an increased lateral load bearing surface and an increased compressive load bearing surface area than the “V” shaped cross section. As a result, the square thread reduces lateral and vertical loading to the supporting bone especially at the crest of the bone. Simpler Threaded Implants are only available with Square Threads.
Simpler Implants uses the service's of the Implant Resource Center for all of its training.