Crown Down for Zimmer Biomet. The Compatible Implant Drill Kit.

Yes. Crown Down publishes a drilling chart for Zimmer Biomet Tapered Screw-Vent (TSV), the tapered line most widely placed today under the Zimmer Biomet Dental (now ZimVie) portfolio. The 2-drill protocol maps each Crown Down carbide drill to the osteotomy diameter Zimmer specifies, so the same universal kit places TSV implants using Zimmer's published surgical parameters. Drilling-chart mappings for Trabecular Metal T3 (parallel-walled) and Eztetic (Ø 3.1 mm) are available on request by booking a clinical demo.

Yes. Tapered Screw-Vent is designed to be placed into a slightly undersized tapered osteotomy so the aggressive threads engage the trabecular bone laterally during insertion. The Crown Down 2-drill protocol prepares the osteotomy to the undersized diameter Zimmer specifies for a given TSV implant, and the tungsten carbide material means the final diameter stays dimensionally consistent across cases as the drill doesn't dull.

No. Crown Down drills use a Morse taper 1.5° lock with a 4.0 mm shank well, which is the standard contra-angle interface used by Zimmer Biomet's 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 Zimmer tray for freehand cases accepts Crown Down drills.

A Zimmer Biomet TSV surgical kit typically retails between $2,200 and $4,000 depending on the configuration (parallel-walled Trabecular Metal, tapered TSV, or full-portfolio cassette), plus recurring drill replacement as the stainless steel drills dull. Zimmer's list pricing on individual replacement drills is roughly $100 to $200 per drill, replaced every 20 to 50 osteotomies. A moderately busy Zimmer practice typically spends $5,000 to $12,000 across a 5-year window once ongoing drill replacements are counted. Crown Down is a flat $3,495 with no replacement cycle.

Yes. Zimmer Biomet's guided-surgery templates use standard 5 mm inner-diameter sleeves that the Crown Down coded depth stoppers seat into directly. Guides planned in RealGUIDE, coDiagnostiX, Blue Sky Bio, 3Shape Implant Studio, or any other DICOM-planned workflow work with Crown Down drills the same way they work with Zimmer surgical drills. Because the 2-drill protocol replaces the 4- to 5-step Zimmer drilling sequence, the number of through-sleeve handovers drops sharply, which shortens the guided portion of the case.

Yes for the osteotomy. Trabecular Metal T3 is parallel-walled with a tantalum-scaffold trabecular section; the osteotomy diameters progress through the same TSV-family sizing that Zimmer has carried forward. The Crown Down drilling protocol prepares the site to the same final diameter Zimmer specifies for TM implants. The original Screw-Vent (SV) uses osteotomy diameters that are also covered by the same universal carbide geometry. If you place these lines at volume and want a specific drilling-chart mapping, book a clinical demo and we'll publish it.

Both names refer to the same product portfolio. Zimmer Biomet Holdings spun off its dental division as ZimVie Inc. in March 2022. The implant lines (Tapered Screw-Vent, Trabecular Metal, Eztetic) and the surgical kit are still the same products with the same osteotomy specifications; the corporate parent changed. Most clinicians still say "Zimmer Biomet" in practice. Crown Down's TSV drilling chart is unaffected by the corporate transition.

No. Crown Down is an independent manufacturer of universal implant drilling kits. "Zimmer Biomet", "ZimVie", "Tapered Screw-Vent", "TSV", "Screw-Vent", "Trabecular Metal", "T3", "Eztetic", and "RealGUIDE" are trademarks of ZimVie Inc. / Zimmer Biomet Holdings. Crown Down references Zimmer Biomet here only to document compatibility with Zimmer's published osteotomy specifications; there is no partnership or endorsement.