Biomet 3i is expanding its product offerings with a revised restorative product line and a new regenerative membrane.
BellaTek is a line of digital dentistry solutions that will be offered through a series of nonexclusive collaborations with digital dentistry companies, including 3M ESPE, 3Shape, and Align Technologies (iTero). The BellaTek line includes:
- BellaTek Encode impression system: It allows clinicians to create a BellaTek abutment (formerly known as an Encode definitive abutment) by making a conventional impression or taking a digital scan through an intraoral scanner.
- BellaTek laboratory-designed abutments (formerly known as Encode laboratory-designed abutments): Dental technicians use a 3Shape scanner and Biomet 3i scan caps to design their own abutments from implant level impressions. These are then sent to a Biomet 3i facility to be centrally milled.
- BellaTek bars: Dental technicians send in their verified master casts and BellaTek technicians at Biomet 3i design and mill BellaTek bars (formerly known as CAM StructSure precision-milled bars) in an array of designs.
- BellaTek copings and frameworks: Available in six shades of zirconia, clinicians can offer their patients teeth restorations with BellaTek copings and frameworks (formerly known as 3i incise).
Biomet has also added to its growing regenerative portfolio with the OsseoGuard Flex membrane, a resorbable collagen membrane with cross-linking techniques that yield an optimal balance between handling and resorption, according to the company.
The OsseoGuard Flex membrane, derived from purified type I and type III bovine dermis collagen, is engineered to yield flexibility, yet also retain a suitable resorption profile for procedures that necessitate a longer resorption time, Biomet said. OsseoGuard Flex is also designed to facilitate the desired aesthetic outcomes because it is flexible enough to drape over defects, limiting the edges of the membrane protruding through the soft tissue.
OsseoGuard Flex is intended for use in oral surgical procedures as a resorbable membrane in the following applications:
- Peri-implant defects in immediate or delayed extraction sockets
- Localized ridge augmentation
- Alveolar ridge reconstruction
- Filling of bone defects
- Guided-bone regeneration in dehiscence defects
- Guided-tissue regeneration in periodontal defects
