abstract: virtually designing a customized healing abutment disclosed is a method of virtually designing a customized healing abutment and a drill guide for a patient, where the method comprises: - obtaining a ct scan comprising at least part of the patient's jaw bone; - virtually placing at least one implant relative to the jaw bone of the ct scan, such that a planned implant placement is defined; - virtually designing: - a drill guide for guiding the surgical drilling of a bore for the implant into the patient's jaw bone at the planned implant placement; and - a customized healing abutment configured for shaping the soft tissue according to a target profile when arranged in the implant; where the design of the drill guide and the customized healing abutment is at least partly based on the ct scan and the planned implant placement. patent design: "virtual design of a custom healing abutment" is a method for virtually designing a custom healing abutment and perforation guide for a patient, wherein the method comprises: - obtaining a computed tomography comprising at least part of the patient's mandibular bone; position virtually at least one implant relative to the mandibular bone of the computed tomography, such that a planned implant placement is defined; - virtually design: - a drilling guide to guide surgical drilling of a implant hole in the patient's mandibular bone in the planned implant positioning; and - a custom healing abutment configured to conform soft tissue to a target profile when disposed in the implant; wherein the design of the drill guide and custom healing abutment is at least partially based on computed tomography and planned implant placement.abstract: virtually designing a customized healing abutment disclosed is a method of virtually designing a customized healing abutment and a drill guide for a patient, where the method comprises: - obtaining a ct scan comprising at least part of the patient's jaw bone; - virtually placing at least one imp