Computer Guided Surgery

In recent years, a very important role has been assumed by the digitalization of acquisition and diagnosis processes for images.

Thanks to 3D visualization, ConeBeam technology and new navigation software have allowed clinicians to significantly increase their diagnostic capabilities and to plan implant and prosthetic surgical procedures with extreme precision in terms of accuracy and predictability.

Computer-guided surgery has shown its ability to be predictable and accurate thanks to the use of surgical guides that faithfully replicate the planning carried out with dedicated software, both in conditions of single edentulism as well as in complex cases of total edentulism.

Therefore, treatment safety for both patient and dentist, minimally invasive procedures, clinically better post-operative courses and other advantageous aspects certainly represent the future of implant-prosthesis. Diagnosis and planning thus become the foundations for analyzing the surgical procedure and guarantee unmatched precision and immediacy compared to “traditional analogue” techniques.

Once the CBCT and intraoral scan are imported into dedicated software plugins, there is the possibility to detail a virtual implant surgery avoiding anatomical areas at surgical risk, respecting optimal axes and inclinations based on the quantity and quality of available bone, and finally, virtually placing the teeth as planned from the initial treatment plan. All these aspects can be modified several times until the desired result is achieved.

The corresponding surgical guide will then allow the doctor to insert the implants exactly as planned.