Implant Crowns
Implant Crowns: Screw- and Cement-Retained Single Units
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
Start Sending Single-Unit Cases
New accounts: we respond within 24 hours. Pickup & nationwide delivery available.
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.
Single Units at Volume, Zero Drama
A practice placing implants needs its restorative partner to be boringly reliable: crown after crown with the same contacts, the same occlusion philosophy, the same shade discipline. Reliable Dental Studio has been that partner since 1994, family-owned, restoring implants digitally since 2010. Every unit runs the same verified pipeline regardless of whether it is your first case with us or your five hundredth, and the technician who designs it is the one who answers when you call. Consistency is not glamorous, but it is what lets your assistants predict a seat appointment to the minute.
Emergence Profile: The Millimeters That Decide
Patients never compliment an emergence profile; they just notice when it is wrong. We plan the transition from platform to contour in CAD with your tissue heights and photos, respect the papillae on a front tooth implant crown where the smile forgives nothing, and shape contact points so floss snaps instead of shredding. Shade work follows your photos and stump notes, with characterization by hand where a plain monolithic surface would betray itself next to a living neighbor, especially in the anterior. Send tissue data with the case and the design uses it; a design preview for your sign-off is available whenever you want eyes on the geometry first.
Implant Crown Codes, Including the Recement Ones
Single-unit implant work drags a surprising amount of coding behind it. Our case documentation states what was fabricated and on which abutment situation, so your front office can match the implant crown ada code entries on first delivery, and later the implant crown code questions that recementation or retorquing visits raise. From dental code for implant crown basics to the recement paperwork years down the line, the answers sit in the case file we ship with every unit, deliberately without printing code numbers on a marketing page.
When a Crown Comes Loose
Years after implant crown placement, maintenance events happen: screws loosen, cement washes out, contacts drift. Retrievability is the quiet payoff of good early decisions, and it is why we argue for screw retention where geometry allows. When something does come loose, the documented component list tells you which driver and which torque before the patient is even in the chair, and our bench tells you honestly whether the unit should be serviced or remade. An implant crown that can be maintained is worth more than one that merely photographed well on delivery day.
Provisional to Definitive on the Same Data
Soft tissue is sculpted, not found. Where the plan includes provisionalization, we build the temporary unit, let it do its tissue work, and inherit its emergence data into the definitive crown, one data chain from first scan to final seat. That continuity is the difference between a crown that fits the site and a crown the site had to accept. State the staging on your Rx and the case file carries it through, including the healing intervals you planned, so the definitive lands when the tissue is ready rather than when the calendar says so.
Single Crowns, Sent Without Ceremony
No case type should be easier to send: scan with a scan body in place, export STL or OBJ, drop the files into the secure portal together with system, platform, and shade, done. Impressions with copings travel by courier with prepaid labels we provide, or by scheduled pickup in our local service areas, and end up on the same bench either way. Turnaround is 10 working days, rush is available on request, and a dental implant crown for a front-desk-emergency patient gets treated like the emergency it is, with a realistic date instead of a hopeful one. Send a case or open a lab account; we respond within 24 hours, and once your documents are complete, the first unit can be underway that week.