What is Guided-Implant Surgery?
Guided Implant Surgery is a cutting-edge dental procedure that ensures precision and accuracy when placing dental implants. This new method is used in implantology for high precision planning and positioning of the implant, as well as for a personalized selection of the implant type.
How is Guided Implant Surgery different than Traditional Implant Surgery ?
Traditional implant surgery is purely based on the experience and skills of the doctor to manually place the implant.
Guided Implant Surgery enhances the dentist’s experience with the precision of the personalized cutting-edge technology:
EVALUATION
- Firstly, a 3D X-ray of the patient’s teeth, and surrounding structures is taken. The 3D X-ray is made using latest technology cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). At Dental-Care Esch, this 3D X-ray is made in house, since our practice is equipped with a Planmeca 3D CBCT.
3D VIRTUAL PLANNING
- In the Second stage, a digital impression is taken, using an intra-oral scanner.
Merging the acquired digital data (X-ray + digital impression), a 3D virtual model of the patient’s anatomy is created. A specialized software is then used to plan the precise location, angle, depth of the implant placement, as well as for choosing the optimal implant size.
IMPLANT GUIDE DESIGN
- The 3D model is then used to create the personalized surgical guide, which fits the patient’s teeth and anatomical structures, providing a precise guide for the implant placement. The guide has holes that correspond to the planned implant positions, ensuring accuracy during surgery.
SURGICAL GUIDE FABRICATION
- The surgical guide is printed using CAD/CAM technology; the surgical guide is usually made out of dental resin. The guide is designed to be stable and secure during the surgical procedure.
USE OF THE GUIDE DURING THE SURGICAL PROCEDURE
- During the actual surgery, the surgical guide is placed over the patient's anatomy, aligning the holes with the planned implant locations. This ensures that the implants are placed exactly where intended, with minimal deviation from the preoperative plan. The surgeon then drills the implant sites through the guide. For the drills the doctor uses special designed instruments for guided surgery, every implant brand having its own set of guided-surgery instruments.
What are the advantages of using Guided Implant Surgery?
The main advantages for the patient are: the reduced risk of complications, the minimal trauma, less pain, faster recovery and less discomfort during and after the procedure.
From medical perspective, implant guided surgery is a valuable technique that has revolutionized the field of dental and medical implantology, setting the scene to improved patient outcomes and safety:
- Increased precision: the accuracy of guided implant surgery reduces the risk of damage to adjacent structures, nerves, and blood vessels
- It has increased the predictability of implant success and minimized the need for corrective procedures.
The advantages of the Guided Implant Surgery are incontestable for both the patient and the medical team, but in order to obtained the expected results, it is important for the medical professionals to have the expertise and experience of effectively using this new technology.
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