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Miratray® Implant Advanced
Author: Timothy F. Kosinski, DDS, Bingham Farms, USA
TIMOTHY KOSINSKI, DDS, MAGD
A graduate of the University of
Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry,
Dr. Kosinski owns a state-of-the-art
dental practice in Bingham Farms,
MI, focused on implants, cosmetic
dentistry, and special needs
dentistry. He is a Diplomate of
the American Board of Oral
Implantology/Implant Dentistry,
the International Congress of
Oral Implantologists, and the
American Society of
Osseointegration, and is an
Affiliate Adjunct Clinical Professor
at the University of Detroit Mercy
School of Dentistry. Dr. Kosinski has
placed over 14,000 implants in his
career and shares his vast
knowledge of implants as a
speaker and author.
Accuracy in the dental impression technique
is paramount to a proper passive fit. For
implant cases, the open tray impression
technique is by far the most accurate method
of capturing the internal design of any
implant system. Yet, in the past, taking open
tray impressions meant cutting holes in a
stock tray or having a custom tray fabricated
and still cutting holes in it. Often, the holes
in those trays are large so that we can easily
seat in the mouth. But the large holes cause
us to lose some of the support of the tray
material, and we need to rely on the
impression material alone for support.
This may create some inaccuracies.
Hager came up with an ingenious idea to
convert a stock tray to a customized tray
in seconds without sacrificing precision.
The Miratray Implant Advanced is a unique
impression tray with a patented clear foil
technology that allows dentists to take open
tray implant impressions with minimal hassle
and no tray modification.
The clear foil, which is a pierceable
membrane bottom to the tray, perforates
only where the impression coping is but
remains durable in other areas. This results in
accurate access holes and outstanding stability.
The clear film also improves visualization of the
treatment area. The screws of the impression
copings penetrate through the clear material,
so clinicians can easily view the screws of the
posts when seating.
Since I don’t need a custom tray for open tray
impressions, I save chair time because the
preliminary casts are not needed. In our
profession, time is money, and convenience
and ease of use are very important to efficiency.
The Miratray Implant Advanced is a tool
that I use for predictability of my implant
impressions, and my dental lab appreciates
the accuracy and elimination of guesswork in
their model work.
I use Miratray Implant Advanced for all of
my open tray implant impressions because
it makes my job easier and is cost-effective.
Anyone who places implants should have
this product.
1. The long screws penetrate through the tray.
After the PVS material sets, the screws are
unthreaded and the impression is removed with
the impression coping still embedded.
3. Excess PVS material is removed from screw holes
with an explorer and screws are unthreaded. The
entire tray with impression copings is removed,
eliminating any distortion of the PVS pulling
around divergent implants.
2. The clear design of the Miratray allows for easy
visualization of the position of the open tray
impression copings.
4. The fi nal impression removed from the
mouth is an accurate representation of the body
of the dental implants.
Reprinted with the permission of Dental Product Shopper
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