Temporary implants — dental implants and prosthetics
Temporary implants are used above all for immediate prosthetic care after implant placement.
Interim or temporary implants are thinner implants. Their primary use is immediate prosthetic care after implant placement. They allow the definitive implants and any augmented areas to heal protected from loading.
These temporary implants make a fixed provisional restoration possible immediately after the implants are placed. They are inserted into the jawbone between the actual implants; they are thinner and heal transgingivally. Directly after the definitive, permanent implants have been placed they serve during healing as a temporary anchor for a new provisional restoration or for an existing denture that has been adapted. They make immediate restoration possible. Either a tooth-coloured fixed bridge or a firmly seated but removable denture can be anchored on the interim implants. The patient leaves the practice on the day of implant placement with their temporary restoration. Once the permanent implants have healed, the interim implants are removed.
A healing phase free of loading
Interim implants protect the permanent implants from premature loading – important where healing takes longer, as after a sinus floor augmentation – and prevent unwanted loading or chewing pressure on augmented areas. Micromovements of the definitive implants, which would hinder osseointegration, are to be avoided.
Unlike immediate loading, the use of interim implants keeps all load away from the definitive implants.
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