Bicon

Also known as: Bicon Dental Implants, Bicon SHORT

The Boston-based implant brand known for short plateaued implants and a locking-taper implant-to-abutment connection with no abutment screw.

Key facts

Manufacturer	Bicon Dental ImplantsVerified spec[1][2]
Parent company	Bicon Dental Implants, BostonVerified spec[1]
Country	United StatesVerified spec[1]
Headquarters	501 Arborway, Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesVerified spec[1]
Founded	The Bicon implant system was introduced in 1985; the design lineage runs back to research begun in 1968 at the Battelle Memorial InstituteVerified spec[2][1]
Connection	A locking-taper implant-to-abutment connection, described by the manufacturer as providing 360 degrees of abutment positioningManufacturer-reported[2]
Short implant option	The manufacturer states that the 1985 system included 8.0 mm implants, considered very short at the time, with shorter designs introduced subsequentlyManufacturer-reported[2]
manufacturingCountry	United StatesVerified spec[3]Country of the FDA-registered device establishment, which may differ from the brand’s home country.

Overview

Bicon is the clearest example in implantology of a design that never converged with the rest of the market. Its implants are not threaded screws but plateaued bodies, and the abutment is held by a locking taper rather than a screw — a difference that dates from the early 1980s and persists today. That is why Bicon offered short implants decades before the mainstream manufacturers did. The trade-off is compatibility: nothing from another manufacturer fits a Bicon implant, and relatively few clinicians stock the components, so continuity of care depends on finding a practice that works with the system.

Regulatory record

Read this before drawing conclusions. A clearance or certificate means a device may legally be sold in a market. It is not a finding that the implant performs well, and it is not a comparison against other implants. In particular, FDA "clearance" is not FDA "approval" — clearance means the FDA accepted the device as substantially equivalent to one already on the market. What these actually mean →

FDA 510(k) clearance7 records

Cleared as substantially equivalent to a predicate device. Not an FDA approval, and not a finding of safety or effectiveness.

Number	Device	Holder	Date
K101849	BICON DENTAL IMPLANT SYSTEM 3.0MM BICON DENTAL IMPLANT	Bicon, LLC	2010-10-01
K092035	BICON IMPLANTS WITH A 2.5MM INTERNAL CONNECTION	Bicon, LLC	2009-10-15
K050408	BICON ORTHODONTIC IMPLANT SYSTEM	Bicon, Inc.	2005-04-07
K023705	BICON TRANSITIONAL IMPLANT (BTI) SYSTEM	Bicon, Inc.	2003-01-29
K994037	THE 4.5MM DIAMETER BICON DENTAL IMPLANT	Bicon, Inc.	2000-01-11
K982488	BICON BONE SCREW SYSTEM	Bicon, Inc.	1999-01-26
K972029	BICON DENTAL IMPLANTS II PART ABUTMENT SYSTEM	Bicon, Inc.	1997-08-18

Other2 records

Registered device establishment in United States. Registration records where a device is made or handled; it is not a clearance, an approval, or any assessment of the product.

Number	Device	Holder	Date
1223843	—	BICON, LLC	—
362 device records	—	Bicon	—

Clearance records for Bicon were retrieved from the issuing authority's own database, not from the manufacturer's marketing material. We attribute a clearance to a brand only when the filing holder belongs to that brand's corporate family — third-party clearances for compatible components are excluded, because they belong to the company that made the component, not to Bicon.

Sources

Numbers match the citations beside each claim above.

Primary sources

[1]Bicon Dental Implants — Information for Patients — Bicon Dental Implants. Accessed 2026-07-21.
[2]History of Bicon — Bicon Dental Implants. Accessed 2026-07-21.
[3]openFDA — Device registrations and listings — US Food and Drug Administration. Accessed 2026-07-22.