Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing demand for accelerated dental implant treatment protocols to minimise treatment duration and to avoid the need for provisional removable prostheses. However, immediate loading of implants was considered a risk factor for early failure owing to occlusal overload.1,2 In the absence of any alternative proposals, implant companies resorted to the anecdotal design of tapered and aggressively threaded implants in an effort to enhance mechanical implant fixation into bone as measured by insertion torque.