Abstract
When conventional prefabricated healing abutments are used, the surrounding soft tissue profile may be unfavorable at the time for restorative treatment, requiring additional time-consuming recontouring. This article presents a technique for fabricating a customized computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD-CAM) healing abutment for a delayed loaded dental implant placed in the region of a missing maxillary right first premolar. A surgical guide was fabricated and a definitive cast was made from the surgical guide. The cast was digitized using a scanner, and a customized healing abutment was digitally designed using computer software. The presented technique provides guided implant placement and predicts optimum soft tissue contours that enhance the implant emergence profile.