Cover cap

A dental cover cap is a cap usually made of plastic for temporary protective covering of the implant head. It is applied to avoid mechanical stress or lesions during the impression taking in the healing phase (healing time of the dental implant).

Dental rehabilitation includes not only fillings, but also root canal treatment, especially the restoration of missing teeth by means of dental implants in the dentition. The cover cap or cap is a protection for the prepared tooth or for the dental implant used during the healing phase.

The cover cap is also called a metal sleeve cap, which is used to provisionally restore a tooth stump after its preparation.

It is also used as a cap that is screwed into the implant body during the healing phase in endosseous dental implants to protect the internal implant thread.

There are far more than 500 different implant systems for all imaginable situations, but special forms such as leaf implants and disc implants etc. from earlier times are rarely found. The most common implants used as tooth root replacements are rotationally symmetric systems that are either helical or pin-shaped.

When restoring teeth, the best chewing comfort is achieved with normal screw implants with an implant crown, which means that the natural tooth is reproduced. Such imitated dental implants can cause a physiological pressure load on the jawbone. The blood supply to the jaw is improved by this. A strong atrophy of the jawbone can be prevented. This cannot be achieved with diameter-reduced mini-implants for the fixation of full dentures; the same cannot be achieved with All-on-4 implantology.