NobelActive
NobelActive is Nobel's most widely placed modern implant and the one most likely to be proposed to you. Its aggressive tapered body is built to find grip where bone is soft or the socket is fresh.
At a glance
- Connection
- Conical connection
- Body
- Tapered with an aggressive thread design
- Surface
- TiUnite, and TiUltra on newer variants
- Canadian availability
- NobelActive TiUnite listed with 28 variants
- Prosthetics
- NobelProcera CAD/CAM and prefabricated abutments
- Typical use
- Immediate placement; soft bone
What the aggressive thread is for
The central difficulty of placing an implant into a fresh extraction socket, or into the soft bone at the back of the upper jaw, is getting it tight enough at the moment of placement. Without that initial grip, primary stability, the implant can move microscopically during healing and fail to integrate.
NobelActive's answer is a sharply tapered body with a pronounced thread that cuts and condenses bone as it is driven in. It also allows the surgeon some ability to adjust the implant's direction during placement, which is useful when a socket's shape is pulling the implant off the intended path.
Restorative flexibility
NobelActive supports Nobel's full NobelProcera CAD/CAM prosthetic range as well as prefabricated abutments. In practice this means your crown can be a stock component or milled specifically for your mouth, depending on what the site needs. For a front tooth, a custom abutment shaped to your gum contour usually gives the better aesthetic result, and usually costs more.
TiUnite and TiUltra
Older NobelActive implants carry TiUniteNobel's long-established anodised surface with a very large clinical record. Newer variants carry TiUltra, described by Nobel as a graded surface whose porosity changes along the implant, less porous near the gum, more porous where bone contact is wanted. Both are in current Canadian distribution, so it is worth asking which you are getting.
Nobel runs four incompatible connection families, external hex, tri-channel, conical and trioval conical. Components do not cross between them. Whatever you receive, get the connection type, platform and reference number written down; it determines which parts can ever be fitted to your implant. The brand page has a diagram of all four.
Questions worth asking your dentist
- Am I getting the TiUnite or TiUltra surface?
- Why NobelActive rather than NobelParallel for my site?
- Will my abutment be a stock part or custom-milled, and what is the cost difference?
- Is my bone soft enough that the aggressive thread design genuinely helps?
- Is this an immediate placement, and what does that mean for my healing?
- Will you record the connection type, platform and reference number in writing?
Related systems
NobelParallel CC
The parallel-walled implant on the same connection.
Nobel Biocare N1
Nobel's newest system, with a different bone-preparation method.
References
- Nobel Biocare. NobelActive. Nobel Biocare Canada product page, nobelbiocare.com/en-ca.
- Nobel Biocare. Product Catalog, Edition 2024/2025. Catalogue 89351.
- Nobel Biocare. Implants catalogue. Nobel Biocare Canada.
Specifications compiled from Nobel Biocare'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 Nobel Biocare. Nobel Biocare, NobelActive, NobelParallel, NobelReplace, NobelPearl, NobelZygoma, Brånemark System, TiUnite, TiUltra, Xeal and NobelProcera are trademarks of their respective owners, used here for identification and educational purposes.