Bicon

Also known as: Bicon Dental Implants, Bicon SHORT, Bicon SHORT Implant

A titanium implant system from Bicon that has no abutment screw, using a 1.5 degree locking taper to join abutment to implant, with a plateaued body and a sloping shoulder.

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Quick facts

Current status	Current. Bicon markets the system and its SHORT implants on its own site.Manufacturer-reported[1][2]
Implant level	Manufacturer documentation not located
Body geometry	A plateaued rather than screw-threaded body, with a sloping shoulder that Bicon states provides space for bone over the implant and helps support the interdental papillae.Manufacturer-reported[1][2]
Thread design	The implant is not screw-threaded in the conventional sense; Bicon describes a plateau design which it states allows shorter implants to be used.Manufacturer-reported[1]
Apex design	Manufacturer documentation not located
Material	Manufacturer documentation not located(Bicon describes its abutments as solid pieces of titanium but the pages reviewed do not state the implant substrate grade or alloy.)
Surface	Manufacturer documentation not located
Connection	A 1.5° locking taper implant-to-abutment connection with no abutment screw. Bicon states the interface has a microgap of less than 0.5 microns and permits 360° of abutment positioning.Manufacturer-reported[1][2]
Platform switching	Manufacturer documentation not located(The sloping shoulder places the abutment inboard of the implant’s widest point, but Bicon does not use platform-switching terminology on the pages reviewed.)
Available diameters	Manufacturer documentation not located(Bicon’s product catalogue PDF was not retrievable; the pages reviewed give example sizes in case descriptions rather than a full assortment table, so no diameter list is recorded.)
Available lengths	Manufacturer documentation not located(Bicon states that SHORT implants are available in lengths as short as 5.0 mm, but we did not obtain a manufacturer table enumerating the full length range.)

Overview

Bicon is the clearest outlier among mainstream implant systems, because it has no abutment screw at all: the abutment is seated into a 1.5° taper and held by friction, which is why Bicon talks about a microgap measured in fractions of a micron rather than about screw preload. The body is plateaued rather than threaded, and the shoulder slopes inward so bone can sit over the top of the implant. These two features together are the basis of the system’s emphasis on short implants, since anchorage comes from the plateau surface area rather than from length. The trade-off worth understanding is practical rather than biological: because the connection is proprietary and screwless, retrieving or replacing a restoration follows a different procedure from the screw-retained systems most clinicians use, and a dentist unfamiliar with Bicon may need to refer.

Technology

BrandBicon

Clinical positioning

What the manufacturer says this system is designed for. This is not the same thing as independent clinical evidence, which is set out separately below.

Bicon positions its SHORT implants for cases with limited bone height, for avoiding the inferior alveolar canal or the maxillary sinus, for patients wishing to avoid bone grafting, and for single-unit restorations without splinting.Manufacturer-reported

Further detail

Short implant option	Short implants are central to the Bicon range rather than a supplementary option; Bicon markets them as SHORT implants and publishes long-term radiographic case series alongside them.Manufacturer-reported[2]

Clinical evidence

We have not yet completed a system-specific evidence review for Bicon. Insufficient system-specific evidence How we grade evidence

Similar implant systems

The clearances below are held by Bicon at brand level and cover its implant range, not Bicon specifically. We show them here because that is the level at which regulators actually issue them.

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]Why Bicon Dental Implants? — implant design — Bicon LLC. Accessed 2026-07-21.
[2]Bicon SHORT® Implants — Bicon LLC. Accessed 2026-07-21.