Crown Down for BioHorizons. The Compatible Implant Drill Kit.

Yes. Crown Down publishes a drilling chart for the BioHorizons Tapered Internal line (the flagship tapered implant with the Laser-Lok microchannel collar) and the same universal drill geometry prepares the osteotomy for Tapered Pro, Tapered Plus, and the 3.4 Prevail small-diameter line. The 2-drill protocol maps each Crown Down carbide drill to the osteotomy diameter BioHorizons specifies for each implant, so the same universal kit places BioHorizons implants using the manufacturer's published surgical parameters. Drilling-chart mappings for Tapered Pro, Tapered Plus, and 3.4 Prevail are available on request by booking a clinical demo.

The osteotomy diameter and depth end up the same; the drill count is the difference. The BioHorizons Tapered Internal surgical protocol prepares the site through a 2.0 mm Pilot Drill → 2.5 mm Twist Drill → (optional intermediate twist drills for wider platforms) → Final Drill matched to the implant diameter, plus an optional Bone Tap for dense-bone cases. That's 3 to 5 drill changes per site. The Crown Down 2-drill protocol replaces that sequence with one cortical pass and one trabecular pass, prepared to the same final diameter BioHorizons specifies for the Tapered Internal implant being placed.

No. Crown Down drills use a Morse taper 1.5° lock with a 4.0 mm shank well, which is the same standard contra-angle interface used by BioHorizons freehand surgical drills (and by every other major implant system). There is no proprietary driver, no coded push-button retainer required, and no adapter. Any handpiece already on your BioHorizons tray for freehand cases accepts Crown Down drills.

A BioHorizons Tapered Internal surgical kit typically retails between $1,800 and $3,200 depending on the configuration (starter kit, Tapered Internal-only cassette, or full-portfolio with Tapered Pro and 3.4 Prevail), plus recurring drill replacement as the stainless steel drills dull. BioHorizons list pricing on individual replacement drills is more accessible than Nobel or Straumann (roughly $90 to $150 per drill), but the replacement cadence is the same and multi-brand practices still see meaningful annual spend. A BioHorizons practice typically spends $4,000 to $9,000 across a 5-year window once ongoing drill replacements are counted. Crown Down is a flat $3,495 with no replacement cycle.

Yes. BioHorizons guided-surgery templates (whether planned through the BioHorizons Simple Solutions guided workflow or in third-party planning software) use standard 5 mm inner-diameter sleeves that the Crown Down coded depth stoppers seat into directly. Guides planned in coDiagnostiX, Blue Sky Bio, 3Shape Implant Studio, or any other DICOM-based BioHorizons workflow work with Crown Down drills the same way they work with BioHorizons surgical drills. Because the 2-drill protocol replaces the standard 3- to 5-step BioHorizons drilling sequence, the number of through-sleeve handovers drops on guided cases.

Yes for the osteotomy. Tapered Pro is BioHorizons' current-generation aggressive-thread tapered line; Tapered Plus is the earlier-generation tapered implant still placed on older restorations; 3.4 Prevail is the small-diameter option for narrow ridges. All three are covered by the same universal carbide drill geometry — only the mapping to each line's specific diameters changes. Drilling-chart PDFs for Tapered Pro, Tapered Plus, and 3.4 Prevail are issued on request; book a clinical demo and we'll publish it.

It doesn't. Laser-Lok is a microchannel surface treatment on the implant abutment collar that promotes soft-tissue attachment (the connective-tissue adherence data that made BioHorizons distinctive). Laser-Lok is a surface feature, not a geometry feature, so it doesn't change the osteotomy diameter or depth. The BioHorizons drilling chart is unchanged whether or not the Tapered Internal you're placing has the Laser-Lok collar, and the Crown Down 2-drill protocol maps to the same final osteotomy diameter either way.

No. Crown Down is an independent manufacturer of universal implant drilling kits. "BioHorizons", "Tapered Internal", "Tapered Pro", "Tapered Plus", "Laser-Lok", "Simple Solutions", and "3.4 Prevail" are trademarks of BioHorizons IPH, Inc. Crown Down references BioHorizons here only to document compatibility with BioHorizons' published osteotomy specifications; there is no partnership or endorsement.