Tube guides work well when they work, however they face significant limitations in many situations. In our survey of 12,000 implant-placing doctors, the 875 respondents consistently faced these limitations: Visual… read more →
Overall, guided surgery provides greater accuracy with equal or less than time than non-guided techniques. Collecting the necessary data upfront (scans and models) requires a few minutes of staff time.… read more →
You can do CT-based guided surgery even if you don’t own a CBCT machine. Guided Surgery Solutions has compiled a list of over 300 cone-beam computed tomography scan centers located… read more →
In an article published in the California Dental Association Journal, Jerome Peck and Gregory Conte write that “CBCT and 3-D treatment planning are emerging technologies for dentistry that offer alternative… read more →
Drilling an osteotomy poses two challenges for the surgeon: Surgical: the hole must be positioned in sufficient bone to hold the implant Prosthetic: the implant must be correctly aligned with… read more →
ThinLayer® Guides require the same vertical clearance as freehand drilling, which is especially helpful in posterior sites (~30% of all implants). Tube guides require you to insert your drill straight… read more →
The factors which trigger the need for guided surgery for multiple implant cases are the same for single implant placement. These include cross-sectional width and shape, position of the inferior… read more →
A tube-based surgical guide requires the drill be stacked above the tube, in line with the tube, adding 7-9 mm of height requirement to a case. A recent research article… read more →
In its 2010 position paper, the Academy of Osseointegration found that CBCT imaging represents the standard of care for dental implantology, stating, “the advent of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT)… read more →
Two points – A and B – define a straight-line and, in the case of surgical guides, a drill trajectory. In a tube guide, the top and bottom of a… read more →