Crown Down for Neodent. The Compatible Implant Drill Kit.

Yes. Crown Down publishes a drilling chart for the Grand Morse (GM) line — the flagship Neodent platform used across Helix GM (apically tapered), Drive GM (parallel-walled), and Alvim (aesthetic-zone tapered). The same universal drill geometry prepares the osteotomy for Titamax CM (the older cortical line still widely placed in Latin America) and the one-piece Facility line. The 2-drill protocol maps each Crown Down carbide drill to the osteotomy diameter Neodent specifies for each implant, so one universal kit places Neodent implants using the manufacturer's published surgical parameters. Drilling charts for Titamax CM, Facility, and Alvim 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 Neodent Grand Morse surgical protocol prepares the site through a Pilot Drill Ø 2.0 mm → Twist Drill Ø 2.8 mm → (optional intermediate drills for wider platforms) → Final Drill matched to the GM implant diameter (Ø 3.5, 3.75, 4.0, 4.3, 5.0, or 6.0 mm), plus an optional Cortical Drill or Bone Tap for dense-bone cases. That's typically 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 Neodent specifies for the GM 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 Neodent surgical drills (and by every other major implant system, including the parent Straumann Group product lines). There is no proprietary driver, no color-coded push-button retainer required, and no adapter. Any surgical contra-angle already on your Neodent tray accepts Crown Down drills.

No. Grand Morse is the internal-conical connection between the implant body and the prosthetic abutment — it's an implant-abutment interface feature, not an osteotomy geometry feature. The GM taper lives inside the implant, so the drill still prepares a standard cylindrical or conical osteotomy to the diameter Neodent specifies for each GM implant. The Crown Down 2-drill protocol maps to the same final osteotomy diameter Neodent specifies whether you're placing Helix GM, Drive GM, or Alvim, because the GM connection is unaffected by the drilling sequence.

A Neodent Grand Morse surgical kit typically retails between $600 and $1,500 depending on the configuration (starter kit, Helix GM cassette, or full Grand Morse portfolio kit), plus recurring drill replacement as the stainless steel drills dull. Neodent list pricing on individual replacement drills is among the most accessible in the industry (roughly $40 to $100 per drill) — which is often cited as one reason for the brand's traction in high-volume general-practice markets in Latin America and beyond. The replacement cadence, though, is the same 20 to 50 osteotomies as any steel drill. A Neodent practice typically spends $2,500 to $6,500 across a 5-year window once ongoing drill replacements are counted. Crown Down is a flat $3,495 with no replacement cycle.

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

Yes for the osteotomy. Titamax CM is Neodent's earlier-generation cortical-drilled line, still widely placed in Latin America (especially Brazil) where it retains a large installed base of practices. Alvim is the aesthetic-zone tapered line with GM connection. Facility is the one-piece narrow-diameter implant for atrophic ridges. All three are covered by the same universal Crown Down carbide drill geometry — only the mapping to each line's specific diameters changes. Drilling-chart PDFs for Titamax CM, Alvim, and Facility are issued on request; book a clinical demo and we'll publish it.

Mechanically yes, protocol-wise no. Straumann Group acquired Neodent in 2012 and Neodent operates as the group's value-tier brand, but the surgical protocols and drilling charts are managed separately: Neodent GM has its own recommended osteotomy diameters that differ from the Straumann Bone Level (BL) and Bone Level Conical (BLC) protocols. Crown Down publishes distinct drilling charts for each, so a mixed-brand practice (increasingly common in Latin America and Southern Europe) can place Neodent GM in the morning and Straumann BLC in the afternoon out of the same universal Crown Down tray. See the dedicated Straumann page for BL / BLC mapping.

No. Crown Down is an independent manufacturer of universal implant drilling kits. "Neodent", "Grand Morse", "GM", "Helix GM", "Drive GM", "Titamax", "Alvim", and "Facility" are trademarks of JJGC Industria e Comercio de Materiais Dentarios S.A. (Neodent), a member of the Straumann Group. Crown Down references Neodent here only to document compatibility with Neodent's published osteotomy specifications; there is no partnership or endorsement.