whiteSKY
whiteSKY is bredent's zirconia ceramic implant, the metal-free option in the SKY family, made as a single piece.
At a glance
- Material
- Zirconia ceramic
- Design
- One-piece
- Colour
- Ivory, closer to a natural tooth than grey titanium
- Restoration
- Cemented crown
- Metal content
- None
- Family
- The ceramic member of the SKY range
Why ceramic, honestly
There are two reasons patients ask for ceramic implants, and they deserve different answers.
Aesthetics. Zirconia is ivory rather than grey. Where gum tissue is thin at a visible front tooth, a titanium implant can cast a faint grey shadow through it, and gum recession can expose grey metal. This is a well-founded reason, and it is the strongest argument for ceramic.
Metal avoidance. Some patients want no metal in their body. Genuine titanium allergy exists but is rare, considerably rarer than online discussion suggests. If this is your reason, it deserves a real conversation with your dentist and, where appropriate, actual testing rather than an assumption. Our implant materials page covers the evidence.
The one-piece constraint
whiteSKY is a single solid piece, which is how most ceramic implants are made, cutting a screw thread into brittle zirconia risks cracking it. The consequences are real: the post's angle is fixed at surgery and cannot be corrected afterwards, and the crown must be cemented on permanently, so removing it generally means destroying and remaking it.
If those constraints concern you, two-piece ceramic implants do exist, Camlog's CERALOG Hexalobe and Nobel's NobelPearl are both covered on this site. They cost more and are made by different manufacturers, but they let the crown be unscrewed.
The evidence position
Titanium implants have been followed in patients since 1965. Ceramic implants are a much newer technology with a correspondingly thinner long-term evidence base. That is not an argument against them, zirconia is well tolerated by soft tissue and the results reported so far are good, but it is a genuine difference in how much is known, and you should choose knowing it.
Questions worth asking your dentist
- Is my reason for wanting ceramic aesthetic, or metal avoidance?
- If metal avoidance, have I been tested for titanium sensitivity?
- Is my gum thin enough at this tooth that titanium would show through?
- Since this is one-piece, what happens if the crown ever needs removing?
- Would a two-piece ceramic implant be better for my case?
- How many ceramic implants have you placed, and what has your experience been?
Related systems
blueSKY
The titanium alternative, with far more long-term data.
copaSKY
The conical-connection titanium implant.
References
- bredent. SKY System Presentation. Document 000250GB.
- bredent. Technical Data. Document 0091008GB, February 2025.
Specifications compiled from bredent's publicly available product literature and Canadian product pages. Manufacturer performance claims are identified as such. DentalImplantInfo.ca is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by bredent. bredent, SKY, blueSKY, copaSKY, whiteSKY, narrowSKY, miniSKY, BioHPP and Docklocs are trademarks of their respective owners, used here for identification and educational purposes.