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CONNECTION (DO WE NEED ONE?) BETWEEN DENTAL IMPLANTS AND ABUTMENTS!!!

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Hopefully, all of us, dentists would have heard about different types of connections between dental implants and abutments in our graduate days. I'm quite sure it was confusing and I'm also quite sure that it will still be confusing for many of the students and younger dentists! I'm a graduate from the first decade of the 21st  century and for us, implants were always two-piece, the idea of single piece implants was never there in our minds.  For quite a long time I used to hear only about Nobel Biocare implants and the trilobe connection (frankly, I think it's not even close to pass by the OK standard in today's implant world). Until I graduated and started practicing, I was thinking Nobel Biocare is the only implant available! That's how strong was the monopoly achieved by Nobel Biocare! Sure, they have come up with lots of changes, but it must be accepted that they are no more the only company or the only boss!  While I was training to be