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Bicon

Also known as: Bicon Dental Implants

A privately held manufacturer in Boston, Massachusetts, producing the Bicon dental implant system with its plateaued body and locking-taper connection.

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Key facts

Headquarters501 Arborway, Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesVerified spec[1]
CountryUnited StatesVerified spec[1]
FoundedThe Bicon implant system was introduced in 1985; the underlying research began in 1968 at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, OhioVerified spec[2][1]
OwnershipNot publicly verified(Privately held; we have not located a primary source describing the current shareholding)
BrandBiconManufacturer-reported[1]
manufacturingCountryUnited StatesVerified spec[3]Country of the FDA-registered device establishment, which may differ from the brand’s home country.

Overview

Bicon is a genuine outlier: instead of a threaded screw, its implants use a plateaued body placed with a locking-taper connection to the abutment, and there is no abutment screw. That design is the reason the company has offered short implants since the 1980s, when most manufacturers regarded anything under about 10 mm as marginal. The practical consequence for patients is compatibility — Bicon components do not interchange with conventional screw-retained systems, so restoring or repairing a Bicon implant means finding a clinician who stocks Bicon parts. We hold this record as database-only because we could not source the company’s current ownership.

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) clearance14 records

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

NumberDeviceHolderDate
K101849BICON DENTAL IMPLANT SYSTEM 3.0MM BICON DENTAL IMPLANTBicon, LLC2010-10-01
K092035BICON IMPLANTS WITH A 2.5MM INTERNAL CONNECTIONBicon, LLC2009-10-15
K0733685.0 X 5.0MM DENTAL IMPLANT AND 6.0 X 5.0 DENTAL IMPLANTBicon, LLC2008-10-10
K062044THE 5.0 X 6.0MM DENTAL IMPLANTBicon, Inc.2006-11-21
K0507124.5.* 6.0MM DENTAL IMPLANT AND 6.0*6.0 MM DENTAL IMPLANTBicon, Inc.2005-04-22
K050408BICON ORTHODONTIC IMPLANT SYSTEMBicon, Inc.2005-04-07
K031568BICONITE SURFACE TREATMENTBicon, Inc.2004-11-23
K042637THE 5.0 X 6.0MM DENTAL IMPLANTBicon, Inc.2004-11-15
K023705BICON TRANSITIONAL IMPLANT (BTI) SYSTEMBicon, Inc.2003-01-29
K0101856.0 X 5.7MM DENTAL IMPLANTBicon, Inc.2002-12-30
K994037THE 4.5MM DIAMETER BICON DENTAL IMPLANTBicon, Inc.2000-01-11
K982488BICON BONE SCREW SYSTEMBicon, Inc.1999-01-26
K972417THE 6.0 X 8.0MM DENTAL IMPLANT SYSTEMBicon, Inc.1997-09-17
K972029BICON DENTAL IMPLANTS II PART ABUTMENT SYSTEMBicon, 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.

NumberDeviceHolderDate
1223843BICON, LLC
362 device recordsBicon

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

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