Bicon History

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HISTORY OF BICON

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THE BICON SYSTEM was designed not as a research

project to study osseointegration, but rather as a

means to restore dentition. Bicon’s unique 1.5˚ locking

taper implant to abutment connection follows sound

bioengineering principles and provides for 360˚ of

universal abutment positioning. Bicon’s implant to

abutment connection also has been definitively

proven to be bacterially sealed. The implant’s elegant

plateaued design provides for cortical-like bone with

central vascular systems around the implant. This

cortical-like bone not only grows faster, but also

provides for functionally different capabilities than the

appositional bone around non-plateaued implants.

The implant’s sloping shoulder provides sufficient

space for the interproximal papillae, which are

crucial for gingivally aesthetic restorations. Since its

introduction in 1985, the Bicon design has benefited

from a sensible biological width, which is only now—

over 20 years later —being promoted as platform

switching. For these reasons, Bicon clinicians and

their patients do not experience the frustrations and

limitations inherent in other implant designs.

THE BICON DESIGN

“An Implant’s DesignDictates its Clinical Capabilities”



SHORT IMPLANTS

Since 1985 » Bicon Short Implants maximize implant placement possibilities and minimize the need or

grating procedures. With Bicon, longer implant lengths are not necessarily better. For many clinical situation

shorter implants ofer a better solution.

EXTRA-ORAL CEMENTATION & THE IAC™

Since 1985 » With the elimination o screws, Bicon’s restorative procedures are conventional, requiring onl

standard impression techniques and allowing or intra-oral or extra-oral cementation techniques. Because

o Bicon’s 360˚ o universal abutment positioning, Bicon introduced the revolutionary Integrated Abutment

Crown™ (IAC), a screwless and cementless restoration. The IAC afords the dentist a guaranteed aesthetic

subgingival crown margin or every restoration, with no extra efort or expense or the dentist or technician.

LOW-SPEED DRILLING

Since 1985 » Low-speed drilling at 50 RPM without irrigation allows a clinician to harvest the patient’s

own bone with titanium reamers or autogenous grating. Slow drilling is orgiving and is unique to Bicon.

Additionally, it greatly extends the longevity o the titanium reamers, thus reducing a clinician’s costs.

1mm 10µm1.5˚ LOCKING TAPER

Since 1985 » Bicon’s 1.5 degree locking taper connection provides a proven bacterial seal at the implant

to abutment interace, with a microgap o less than 0.5 microns. Bicon’s bacterial seal avoids the microbial

leakage issues that can result in inammation o the sot tissue around an implant, which could lead to not

only bone loss around the implant but also to the loss o the implant itsel.Image courtesy o Ziedonis Skobe, PhD, Forsyth Institute and Harvard University, Boston, MA and Thomas G.H. Diekwisch, DDS, PhD, UIC College o Dentistry, Chicago, IL

Image courtesy o Paulo G. Coelho, Ph.D., New York University

PLATEAU DESIGN

Since 1985 » The plateau or n design ofers at least 30% more surace area than a screw implant o

the same dimensions and allows or the callus ormation o mature haversian bone between the ns o

the implant. This cortical-like bone orms at a aster rate o 10–50 microns per day in comparison to theappositional bone around non-plateaued implants, which orms at a slower rate o 1–3 microns per day.

HAVERSIAN BONE

BICON IMPLANT

THE BICON SYSTEM

4.5mmImplant

5.0mmAbutment

RESTORATIVE FLEXIBILITY

Since 1985 » Bicon ofers a complete selection o abutments: temporary, healing, stealth shouldered,

non-shouldered, Brevis™ overdenture, and Locator® overdenture — providing or exceptional restorative

exibility and platorm switching. All Bicon abutments are completely interchangeable, and all benet

rom the unique 360˚ o universal positioning provided by Bicon’s locking taper connection. Once clinicians

appreciate what 360˚ o abutment positioning can do or their clinical practice, implant dentistry will never

again be the same or them.

SLOPING SHOULDER

Since 1985 » Bicon’s sloping shoulder afords more exibility at the time o implant placement and provide

or impressive bone maintenance. It also provides more room or bone over the implant, which provides

support or the interdental papillae, enabling aesthetic gingival contours to be easily and consistently achieve

Inherent in the Bicon design is platorm switching — complete interchangeability o abutment diameters an

sensible biological width.

NARROW IMPLANTSSince 1985 » The Bicon system has had 3.5mm implants. These narrow implants acilitate the restoration o

missing maxillary lateral incisors as well as individual mandibular incisors. The sloping shoulder o the Bicon

implant enhances crestal bone preservation while providing space or the interdental papillae — ofering the

opportunity or natural-looking gingival aesthetics.

3.5mmImplant

3.5mm

2.0mm

A simple and elegant design

that has remained unchanged

and in continuous use since 1985.



25 years of continuous clinical success.

THE HISTORY OF THE BICON DESIGN

Studiesreveal highly eective loadtransmission

rom the implantto the surrounding bone

by meanso an osseointegratedmulti-fnned

design.This design wasshown to be inherently

more eective orthe distribution o occlusal

orcesto the bone than screwsorany othermechanicalload transmitting design usedby

otherimplant manuacturers.

Driskelldemonstrateshistologically adirect

bone to implantinterace using ree-standing

tooth implantsin RhesusMonkeys.T his

phenomenon isnowknown asosseointegration.

Initialresearch beginson Beta-Tricalcium

Phosphate,a syntheticbone gratmaterial.

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ell initiateshis

t research.

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tCommand Dental

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ould be placedxtraction site,and

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skell

FIRSTWide-bodied

implants.

FIRSTPre-ormed

angledabutments.

Driskellintroducesthe

Titanodontimplant, made o

titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V-ELI)

incorporating the same design

eaturesas the Synthodont.

DB PrecisionImplant

DriskellBio-Engine ering isestablished.

DriskellBio-Engine ering receivesFDA

permission to marketthe DB Precision

Fin implantsystem.Bicon oersthis

same design today.

Nowavailable in the USA.

Driskellintroducesthe

Synthodontimplant.

Itis the frsttruly

successul,ree-standing

osseointegratedsingle

tooth dentalimplant,

specifcally designedand

soldor use in humans

on alarge scale,which

hasaone piece,non-submergible design.

FIRSTMechanically textured

andacidetchedbone/

implantsuraces.

FIRSTComplete

interchangeability o

abutmentdiameters,

providing sensible biological

width andoering the

conceptnow being described

asplatorm switching.

FIRSTLocking taperimplant

to abutmentconnection

providing 360˚ o universal

abutmentpositioning anda

bacterialseal.

Locking Taper

IAC™

ReverseLocking Taper

StrykerpurchasesDriskell

Bio-Engineering’sD B

Precision Fin implantsystem.

Bicon isnow

available in Italy.

Bicon isestablished.

Bicon purchasesStryker’s

Precision Fin ImplantSystem.

™

Bicon isnowavailable in

Canada,Cyprus,France,

Greece,Jordan, Lebanon,

Portugal,and Turkey.

Bicon receivesthe CEmark.


Argentina,Bulgaria,

Colombia,Panama,

andSouth Arica.

Bicon’simmediate stabilization andunction technique isintroduced.

4.5 x 8.0mm implantisintroduced

andreceives FDAclearance.

Bicon introducesStealth

ShoulderedAbutments.

Bicon isnow available in Ecuador,

Honduras,Pakistan,a ndUganda.

6.0 x 5.7mm implantis

introducedandreceives

FDAclearance.


Brazil,Dominican Republic,andHong Kong.

Bicon TransitionalImplantSystem isintroducedandreceives FDAclearance.

Worldwide distribution

continuesto expand,now

reaching over50 countries.


Bolivia,Indonesia, Malaysia,

Mexico,Netherlands,Nigeria,

Peru,Philippines,Romania,

Russia,Saudi Arabia,and

Singapore.

BiconWebsite

The Bicon website isthe mos

comprehensive proessional/

patientwebsite in the dental

implantmarket with over200

case studiesand over11,000

clinicalphotos.

Completion o state-o-the-art

clinicaland teaching acility.

15th Bicon patentissued.

Bicon isnowavailable inBangladesh,Macedonia, Moldova,

andUnited ArabEmirates.

BiconWorld HeadquartersBoston, MA USA

FIRSTGrit-blasted,acid-treated,

passivatedimplantsin sterile packaging,known today asBicon’sIntegra- Ti™.

FIRST Titanium instrumentation.

FIRSTUnique,50RPM low-speeddrills

orsocket preparation which harvest

bone anddo notrequire irrigation.

FIRSTUnique sloping shoulder

conceptdesigned to helpmaintaincrestalbone heightand interdentalpapillae.

Sloping Shoulder

6.0 x 8.0mm implantisintroduced

andreceives FDAclearance.

Clinicalstudies begin orBicon’s

5.7mm shortimplant.

Bicon isnowavailable in Ireland,

Palestine,South Korea,Spain,

UnitedKingdom, andVenezuela.

4.5 x 6.0mm shortimplant

isintroducedand receives

FDAclearance.

brevis™


Austria,Iran,and Taiwan.

ShortImplantUSPatent

No.6,227,857 issued.


Barbados,India,Israel,

andKenya.

FIRSTIntegratedAbutment Crown™

(IAC)aswellasthe promotion o extraoral cementation o crowns.

TM

Bicon’sIntegra-CP™ implants

are introduced.

Bicon’sHydroxylapatite(HA) Surface

2000x

Bicon’sGrit-Blasted, Acid-Treated, Passivated Surface

2000x

5 0 x

Bicon’simplantsystem is

introduced,including highly

successul8.0mm length

implantswhich were considered

quite shortatthe time.

The Bicon system hasoered

3.5mm narrowimplants

since 1985.

4.0x 8.0mmShort Implant

™

IMPLANTS

™

IMPLANTS

NARROW™

Brevis™ Abutment


5.0 x 5.0mm and6.0 x 5.0mm

shortimplantsare introduced

andreceive FDAclearance.

Bicon celebrates40 yearso

research anddevelopment o

itsimplant design.


Albania,Belgium, Norway,

Polandand Ukraine.




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Bicon creates www.bicon.com

Bicon introducesone-stage

surgicalprocedure.

3.0mm wellimplant isintroduced.

Bicon isnowavailable in Australia,

Egypt,Germany,Japan, PapuaNew

Guinea,Switzerland, andThailand.


StealthShoulderedAbutment

5.0 x 6.0mm shortimplant

isintroducedand receives

FDAclearance.6.0x 5.7mm

Short Implant

Synthodont Implant

Titanodont Implant

BiconWebsite

Bicon introducesthe Brevis™

Overdenture System.

Anew ormulation o SynthoGrat™

pure phase Beta-Tricalcium

Phosphate isintroduced.

Bicon isnowavailable in China.

3.5x 8.0mmNarrow Implant

3.0mmWellImplant

nitial research began in 1968, with innovations that were years ahead of “conventional” designs.



THE BICON DENTAL IMPLANT SYSTEM is experiencing growing clinical

acceptance throughout the world with distribution in over 65 countries.

The system’s unique and highly successful design and revolutionary

clinical techniques continue to lead the trends of the implant market.

The Bicon design has passed the test of time, while other systems arecontinuously undergoing revisions as they attempt to achieve the

clinical benefits which have been inherent in Bicon’s design since 1985.

Since 1985 » Simple. Predictable. Proftable.

Bicon ■ 501 Arborway ■ Boston, MA 02130 ■ USA ■ www.bicon.com

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