HIOSSEN Dental Implants: Open Discussion

Surface technology is RBM? Really? C'mon man!

I have been placing Hiossen HM implants for the past two years and I have been very plesed. I have used them mostly for immediate implant placement with no failures. I have found the HM thread design works really well for immediate placement. Due to the multiple sizes available it is also easy to find the size to fit the socket. The fit of the parts is excellent. They also have a wide array of restorative choices and implant sizes. I have been very pleased with their customer service and generous return policy Even though they are cheaper than the major brand names implants, there are other implant systems priced much lower i.e Implant direct, OCO, Blue Sky. However I think the quality of the implants and the customer service provided makes them very competitive. I have had no experience with the their courses.

Dr.Minniti, You must have got paid for posting here;) Please note, I am not against this company or anything. All I see in you post is very generic words with all the good stuff about HIOSSEN. Your post start with "I have been placing Hiossen HM implants for the past two years.." They did not even exist 2 years ago. If they did then only on paper. (i.e. incorporated only). If you impliying MS system which is OSSTEM then you make sense otherwise I would not recommend anyone to consider your post to make decision about their implant system or joing implant course. HIOSSEN is no other then OSSTEM. Same implants different name but of course higher price. I believe HIOSSEN came in existance due to business/marketing decision. Now important thing about their implant. Their implants are like any other implant out there. They are very good at copying like Hyundai (i.e most of the hyundai concept comes from merc, does not mean Hyundai has bad cars) -- oh hold on..why they are so similar to Hyundai??? they both from south korea ..duh !!! Anyways...for the doctors who are curious about using HIOSSEN or joining their implant course..use it at your own discreation. Try it out..if you like it..feel comfortable..go with it..just the few words of advise...wait till you finish at least 2-3 case completely (i.e restored)..6-12 months...then buy in bigger quantity. HIOSSEN/OSSTEM sales rep have tendency to push $30k, $100K packages..are you kidding me !! So try it out before you buy it. Don't ask me who I am ..I just happened to know lot about HIOSSEN i.e. OSSTEM.

Anonymous post has some strong words toward the company Hiossen and also to Dr. Minniti. Perhaps Anonymous should reveal him/herself first before expressing oneself on this thread. Sounds like someone with experience in sales. I have no interest in any implant company. Just a humble GP lurking on this site. I am contemplating buying this system but no experience with the company and system other than 2 conversations with a sales person out of Atlanta named Duke. I have many years experience restoring Straumann, Astra, Nobel, Zimmer, Ankylos, and Megagen. I have placed Implant Direct, Bluesky, and Megagen Rescue. I am considering Hiossen HGIII kit for the following reasons. 1. Aggressive thread for immediate placement 2. conical seal to minimize implant/abutment micro-movement. 3. index on implant/abutment 4. platform switching 5. moderately priced 6. vast array of abutment options 7. good price on intro kit (they offered 9300 worth of implant/abutment for 5000 and allow a swap of surgical kit. 8. surgical kit is well thought out with stops. 9. appears to me the most ideal combination of versatility, surgical convenience, restorative options, and economical system out there. (Just my opinion given my experience) Just commenting on this thread, not interested in bickering. Would like to hear from others with experience using this system before buying an intro kit.

dds344, They are all great implants. You may want to consider AB Dental or MIS. I t is hard to beat the price. Also check out Park Dental Research. You can get some good deals there.

I just got my email blast from osseonews and saw the above comments and feel i'd like to clear a few things up. first, i am faculty member for osstem/hiossen, and have been since 2006. which is when they came to the u.s. i've been doing implants for 30 years, do a good deal of consultation to the industry, and have placed a couple hundred osstem/hiossen fixtures. they have established an american plant in fairless hills, pa. state of the art manufacturing. in terms of surface treatment, yes they are rbm, and frankly there is little that is better than that in the lit. but they will be releasing a fixture soon with an active surface similar to straumann. i have 4 year followups on these and they show excellent bone holding capability similar to astra, ankylos, bicon, nobel active. most of the fixtures i place now are osstem/hiossen. i have the armamentarium in office to place over 10 different systems, including nobel, straumann, lifecore, etc. they work as well as any other system imho. gary

Dr. Henkel, With all do respect, this company has no R&D, that is why their implant surface is RBM. Not sure what literature you are reading but there are currently several implant surface treatments that outperform RBM in clinical studies. A medical device company with no R&D? This speaks volumes. I would not feel comfortable using their products based on that fact alone. Happy Holidays!

Just to set the record straight: 1) Believe what to want but I did not get one red cent for my post. Not everyone speaks in bad faith 2) I stared using Osstem GS system and then I switched to Hiossen and I only had to spend $5000 (and got $9300 worth if goods) not 30K 3) My reasoning parallels the post from DDS 344 almost entirey (I guess he got paid too or its a conspiracy) I also have placed Implant direct and MIS with good results But when I startded 12 years ago I was placing 3I They all work fine I just got tired of paying $350 for an implant. Hiossen/osstem make the most sense to me at this time. RBM is widely used by many companies and has been around for a while In my hands this system is working so I posted my experience. Anonymous must have an ax to grind or must be a Rep. for a competitor he accuses me of making " generic statements" but his post is full of platitudes, bigotry and stereotypes about Hunday and South Korea etc...

Dr. Minniti,, Good luck obtaining restorative parts in a few years when this company fails. But I'm sure your patients will understand why you chose to use a cheap,"knock off" implant made in Korea. Consider using a more established, reputable system

Dr. Scwartz, as far as I know, pretty much every implant system is a copy of the original design that was done back early 1900. There is no cheap knock off. I think if a company provides a good customer service and a price is lower without evident fault on a product, then that's a way to go. Did imtec stop selling their larger diameter implant because they were bad products? Not every cheaper manufacturers go down with the same reason.

Lets get the facts right 1) Of course Hiossen/Osstem has great R/D center in Korea. Even to copy others' you need some sort of R/D center. And to pass all FDA requirements? of course it has R/D center 2) Hiossen/Osstem released implants with SLA surface treatment in early 2010 in Korea and late 2010 here in the US. 3) Hiossen/Osstem is ranked 5th or 6th in the Implant industry based on sales volume or total sales value. 4) Some people disparage Korean products comparing them to Hyundai cars, but more and more people are buying them each and every year. Samsung is also a Korean company, but it's one of the best electronics company in the world. 10~20 years ago, no one thought that Samsung would catch up with Sony or Panasonic! You use whatever works for you. Thats great! No need to disparage others

Five years ago, I was introdced to the Osstem implant system. I was using Astra, Nobelbiocare, and 3i at that time. I started using GSII and SSII of Osstem and had very good results. These implants are not copies, they have been designed and modified based on R&D. Their surface is great and I did not have any misfit or defect of any prosthetic part in more than 400 implants placed. The conical implant-abutment connection is not very strong. I had more than 5% screw loosening especially for screw retained single implants in the mandibular first molar area. I have to admit that I was tighetning the abutment screw to 20N only. Recently I'm following the 25/30N protocol. Overall I had 97-98% survival rate at 5 years. Osstem is not the only Korean product I use. Remember that Korea has more patents per capita than any other country in the world including USA.

I have to agree with Dr. Minniti. would you be able to obtain the essential restorative parts in few years time , when the company has possibly withdrawn this product and introduced a new one ?? I have no interest in any implant company. Just expressing an opinion.

I have never used this implant but the design features are compelling, certainly more so than many of the mainstream companies that dominate the marketplace today. Price is a bonus. Korea I am sure can manufacture as well or better than Sweden. The issue for a start up company is long term penetration into the market but I believe this company has already established a foothold. Good on Osstem.

Dear Colleagues, Caveat emptor

I have placed over 400 Osstem/ Hiossen implants over the past 3 years. Like other successful implantologists, I have a few cases where the implants (or the patient' immune system?) failed. Otherwise, the beauty of this system is the aggressive thread design and superb surgical kit allowing me to change directions of the implant for the final direction in the bone. Prostethetically, the one piece screw-abutment is really simple to use and requires ONE driver for multiple parts and the fit and finish of the connections is indeed "Samsung or LG 3D state of the art"! I plan to use their newer surface implants as their R&D progresses! My only REAL complaint is their accounting dept. but I have to pay someone for something with any implant co.

I place 50+ hiossen/osstem dental implants I won't say no problem but overall happy with result. I

Its interesting that another post from 2010 mentioned the Hiossen had not been around more than two years. You should fact check. They were incorporated in PA in 2004. I dont have a calculator handy but I think that makes them more than two years old....

From where I sit Hiossen offers a very diversified product line at an attractive price point. Regardless of the origin of manufacture, their quality is as good as any other current implant manufacturer. Since around 2000 Korea has actually had some of the purest billet stock in the world to the point that both Toyota and Honda are purchasing a vast amount of products from Korea and price has nothing to do with it. Hiossen has progressed very nicely over the last 3 years and I firmly believe they will not only be around for a long time to come, will continue to progress dramatically within the industry.Like anything you need to make sure you fit the right application to your clients needs regardless of the manufacturer.Being a professional means being able to decifer what is best for my client/patient. Every implant manufacturer is a spin off from the original 1950 introduction, but none of them are a copy, they are an advancement and Hiossen is no different than any other company. If they choose to operate within the U.S. with lower overhead than their competitors how is that wrong? To me it makes great business sense when they can still offer a premium product at a reasonable price with good support. What saddens me about some of the comments within this thread are from whom they are derived from. It is unfortunately the current direction a portion of the industry is taking. Some of these comments are from industry representatives that would struggle selling cell phones let alone working within a professional working enviornment. It truly hurts the industry to the core.

It is quite Interesting reading this article 6-7 years later. HiOssen has made great advances in surface treatment technology. The fixture is Sandblasted with alumina & acid etched. Essentially SLA surface treatment; However, it also has a nano layer of calcium phosphate coating to speed up the OsseoIntegration time much faster than Straumann SLA active or any implant on the market.

I've just learned of another brand implant which has a broader base for molars, and which can Immediately be installed after extraction. A good question is: Is it significantly better than Hiossen implants, and is it worth the cost. Just convenient? Why should the Trip-Max implant significantly cost more?

Thinking about getting their $5000 implant system that includes the implants, surgical guide drills and regular set drills. I am a cerec dentist and have restored many different systems with in-house cerec options including making surgical CEREC guides for implant direct drills. My question do cerec doctors have success in integrating their cerec MCX surgical guides, tibase, and Hiossen implants?