Fabricating a provisional restoration over a healing cap using a 1.25-mm L-shaped Allen key.

After placing a transmucosal healing cap at secondstage surgery, a provisional restoration is desirable for esthetics, phonetics for development of a soft-tissue emergence profile around the implant, and to monitor the patient’s oral hygiene. Proussaefs described a procedure for fabricating a provisional prosthesis using a vacuum-formed template of a diagnostic waxing on prepared healing caps. A provisional crown constructed directly on the healing cap with the aid of an L-shaped type Allen key (Tooled-up, Enfield, Middlesex, UK) is an easy and economical method of fabricating an implant-supported provisional crown in a single appointment. This article describes the fabrication of a provisional crown over a healing cap using a modified domestic 1.25-mm L-shaped type Allen key for additional retention.