Bicon Information from CareersInDental.com

Address:: 501 Arborway
Boston, MA 02130
Phone:: (800) 882-4266
Website:: http://www.bicon.com
Company Information:: Building upon over twenty years of clinical success with the current Bicon implant design and the seventeen years of innovative research and development efforts which preceded its inception, Bicon’s dental implant system continues to lead the implant industry. In order to fully appreciate Bicon’s unique implant design, with its 1.5° bacterially-sealed* locking-taper implant to abutment connection, one should be aware of the history of the Bicon dental implant concept.

Although the implant design may appear new to some dentists, its history goes back to a time well before 1982 — the year Professor Branemark visited Toronto to demonstrate what he had learned about the properties of titanium.

Bicon’s contiguous research history began in 1968 when Thomas Driskell, then a Senior Scientist at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, obtained a research contract funded by the Dental Research Division of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command.

The focus of the project was to develop a free-standing single tooth replacement with a cementable abutment component for acceptance of a cementable crown.

His early designs were fabricated from high density aluminum oxide, which studies had determined to be highly compatible as the implant material. The generally accepted medical opinion at that time was that all known materials used for orthopedic or dental implants would elicit a fibrous tissue encapsulation when implant

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