BASIC Doctor and Laboratory Transfer Device Advisory

The BASIC implant strip transfer device utilization.

Those doctors who have taken the BASIC Implant Prosthetic Certification Course I, understand that the doctor initiated BASIC company has from its inception made a commitment to its original established, and new client doctors to continually strive toward simplified innovation and improvement of product and protocol for our general dental community when warranted. This commitment has always been driven by professionalism and not profit.

In accomplishing these improvements however there is always a design change that takes place that may be very subtle or not. The component that generates this advisory is the transfer device or impression pick up. The last revision incorporated a cap over or "skirted" configuration that covered the bevel of the implant. Most doctors liked the design for its stability and orientation but mentioned to us that care in seating was important so that possible tissue entrapment and push-back did not occur. They mentioned that use of the profiler usually always eliminated this entrapment potential, but that care and observation was important. Because of our BASIC commitment to our doctors they inturn feel free to share with us their comments that can make "their" company just that much better. Their comments are taken seriously and evaluated. Thus because our implants now have a recess counter bore configuration to improve abutment stability for the doctor and laboratory, it was entirely appropriate to eliminate the tissue entrapment potential, and design a transfer device that fit snugly into the post and counter bore recess with secure stability. This design also creates a sensory "click" when fully and correctly seated.

Fully and correctly however takes a bit of explanation
Let’s begin with correctly first.

1. The transfer is to be placed carefully into the implant recess in the same axial direction as the implant body placement to prevent a bind.
2. Very slight rotation (20º) back and forth is helpful to make sure that the square on the post slips down into one of the eight possible positions within the internal recess of the implant. No further rotation will verify.
3. After this occurs careful seating progress continues now with more positive pressure until the tactile "click" occurs.
4. Final positive pressure is then placed atop the transfer device to assure full seating intimacy with the implants top.
5. No gap should be encountered with a fine tip explorer.

The impression outcome will show a clean transfer stop surface with no injected impression material present. This demonstrates a fully and correctly seated transfer step.

For the laboratory the analog top must fit intimately to the transfer devices platform stop which occurs when the transfer’s post and core base completely fills the analog’s recess. This process by the laboratory can be easily observed and felt.

We at BASIC believe that this is a credible improvement in the critical step of accurate transfer impressions and laboratory working model pour up for the prosthetic procedures to come.