**2. Blunt tapping**

The use of a blunt instrument such as a mirror handle has been used to determine, in a very crude fashion, the stability of an implant. The metallic mirror handle is tapped against an implant, a cover screw, a healing abutment or a definitive abutment. The clinician then listens to the sound that occurs and relates that to the stability of the implant in the peri-implant bone. As you can imagine, there is a lot of room for interpretation and experience is the key to predictability in this method.
