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Product Profile: Zest Anchors

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For 40 years Zest Anchors has been in the design and manufacturing of overdenture attachments. Zest pioneered self-aligning attachments to combat the damage done by the improper seating of overdentures.

Zest's Locator Attachment is designed with the primary benefits of ease of insertion and removal, customizable levels of retention, low vertical profile and exceptional durability. Its most critical design feature is its innovative ability to pivot, which increases the Locator's resiliency and tolerance for the high mastication forces an attachment must withstand and allows it to compensate for the path of insertion even with up to 40 degrees of divergence between implants.

During seating, while the Locator male pivots inside the denture cap, the system's self-aligning design centers the male on the attachment before engagement. These two actions in concert allow the Locator to self-align into place, enabling patients to easily seat their overdenture without the need for accurate alignment and without causing damage to the attachment components. This self-aligning feature also increases the durability of the Locator Attachment. Once seated, the male remains in static contact with the attachment while the denture cap, which is processed into the overdenture, has a full range of rotational movement over the male for a genuine resilient connection of the prosthesis without any loss of retention.

The Locator System offers both Locator males and extended range males, which provide clinicians with a variety of retention level options to suit their patients' needs and enables clinicians to accommodate various paths of insertion depending on implant positions. Locator males allow for insertion of the overdenture with up to 20 degrees of divergence between implants and are available with one and a half, three or five pounds of retention forces. Extended range males allow for insertion of the overdenture with up to an extensive 40 degrees of divergence between implants and are available with zero, one, two or four pounds of retention forces.

With the Locator Attachment's unique design, the overall restorative height of the overdenture is significantly reduced on all brands of endosseous implants. With a total attachment height of only 3.17mm (male plus 1mm cuff height) for an externally hexed implant, the Locator saves a minimum of 1.68mm of interocclusal space compared to other overdenture attachments. The Locator Attachment also has twice the amount of retention surface area compared to other overdenture attachments available. Its unique dual-retention feature, which includes inside and outside retention, ensures long lasting performance and predictable durability.

Zest offers three Locator Attachments for the various types of overdenture treatments.

The Locator Implant Attachment is the premier attachment for implant-retained, tissue-supported overdentures and is available for virtually every implant system. When a treatment plan calls for an overdenture bar, the Locator Bar Attachment provides the same self-aligning feature, superb retention, a low-profile design and long-lasting durability. It is also offered in three options for the fabrication of a resilient attachment on an implant-supported cast alloy or milled titanium bar. The Locator Root Attachment is a supra-radicular design with a choice of a straight post and 10- or 20-degree angled posts to accommodate divergent roots. A special cast-to version is also available.

Locator has become the overdenture attachment that is embraced by clinicians worldwide. It is currently available for more than 350 different implants produced by more than 70 manufacturers, meaning that almost any implant platform has a compatible Locator Attachment to fit. Now, patients all over the world are enjoying a better quality of life, without the worry of ill-fitting dentures.
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