Implant Crowns
A single implant crown is the bread and butter of implant dentistry, which is exactly why it deserves more respect than routine. Our implant department fabricates screw- and cement-retained units for every major system, including Nobel Biocare, Straumann, Neodent, MegaGen, and BioHorizons, with emergence profiles planned in CAD and fit verified before shipping, delivered nationwide from our California, Colorado, and Texas labs.
What Is an Implant Crown?
A dental implant crown restores a single fixture with its own retainer, either screwed directly into the implant or abutment, or cemented onto an abutment like a conventional crown. No periodontal ligament cushions the interface, so precision carries the whole load: the implant crown must land on its platform passively, contact its neighbors correctly, and emerge from the tissue in a profile that looks grown rather than installed. We fabricate these units in zirconia and e.max, matched to your chosen implant system and components, verified against analogs on the model before anything leaves the bench.
Screw-Retained or Cement-Retained: Deciding Per Site
Retention is a per-site decision, not a lab default, and it deserves thirty seconds of thought on every single unit. A screw retained implant crown gives you retrievability and spares the sulcus any cement; the access channel needs an acceptable exit position to earn that advantage. A cement retained implant crown wins where angulation or esthetics rule out the channel, at the price of meticulous cement control. Note your preference on the Rx, or send the scan and let the screw retained crown option be checked first, which is our standard suggestion when geometry allows. The decision stays yours; we make sure it is an informed one.
Materials & Options
- Materials
- Zirconia & e.max; abutment options per case
- Options
- Screw- or cement-retained, per site and Rx
- Turnaround
- 10 working days
- Rush Available
- Rush turnaround on request
- Delivery
- Nationwide UPS/FedEx
- Digital Files
- STL, OBJ accepted
How We Process Your Implant Crown Case
- 1
Send Your Case
Scan with scan body or impression with coping, system and platform details
- 2
Design
Emergence, contacts and retention concept planned in CAD
- 3
Mill & Verify
Precision milling, seat and contacts checked on the model, documented QC
- 4
Deliver
Nationwide UPS/FedEx, scheduled to your seat date
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Open a Lab AccountWhat does an implant crown cost from the lab?
We quote lab fees to accounts per case rather than publishing patient prices: implant crown cost depends on material, retention type, and whether the case uses a stock or custom abutment. Open a lab account and the current implant fee schedule arrives with your welcome documents, so treatment plan conversations can run on real numbers.
My patient's implant crown feels loose: what now?
Typical symptoms of a loose dental implant crown are rotation, a new food trap, or a patient who reports clicking. The cause decides the fix: a loosened screw is retorqued, washed-out cement means recementing, and repeated loosening deserves a design review rather than a third repeat of the same failure. Send us the history and, if needed, the crown; we assess whether recementation, a new screw, or a remake serves the patient best.
Can you make a temporary implant crown?
Yes. A temporary implant crown conditions the soft tissue, tests esthetics, and holds the site while the definitive is planned. We fabricate provisionals from your records and carry the emergence data over to the final unit, so the tissue work your provisional accomplished is not thrown away at the definitive stage.
Does the implant crown come with the abutment?
Your choice. We restore on stock abutments where they serve the case, and design custom abutments in titanium or zirconia where tissue height, angulation, or esthetics demand it. Custom abutment work has its own page and specifications; on this page, what matters is that crown and abutment are planned together, by the same technician, never as strangers.