Stage I surgical indexing: clinical and laboratory procedures.

This article will describe the clinical and laboratory procedures used to treat a patient with implant retained crowns including Stage I indexing, fabrication of fixed provisional crowns to be inserted at the time the implants were uncovered (Stage II surgery), and the insertion of the definitive cement-retained crowns after the soft tissues had healed. All of the components described in this article were made by Implant Innovations, Inc., Palm Beach Gardens, FL. The reader may consider this type of treatment using components made by various manufacturers.