Guided Implant Surgery & Treatment Planning
Fully guided surgeries offer a superior level of accuracy and security in order to achieve highly predictable results.. Clinicians controlling the end-to-end workflow is increasingly becoming the standard of care. By utilizing Dandy for guided surgery, the entire implant process, from planning to placement to restoring can seamlessly occur all in one place. You have full collaboration from our expert implant planning team.
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Dandy’s Implant Surgery and Treatment Planning
Freehand vs guided implant surgery
Before CBCT scanners and guided surgery techniques became popular, freehanded implant surgery was the norm. Freehand surgery comes with flexibility, allowing doctors to visualize and relate diagnostic data to the actual clinical conditions. Freehand implant surgery can also be more cost effective in the short term, with no need for surgical guides and – in some cases – no need for CBCT scans. However guided implant surgery has risen in popularity among general dentists who are not implant experts and even implant experts who want to provide more predictable patient care. Using surgical guides, a doctor can place an implant in a very specific, pre-planned location to give the most ideal depth, angulation, and size of implant to fit the space. Guided implant surgery and planning with the final restoration in mind ensures less remakes and unexpected issues because of more predictable placement and improved clinical outcomes.
What is an Implant Treatment Plan?
Implant treatment planning is the process by which a patient’s implant locations are planned using a combination of STLs (intraoral scans), and CBCT scans Մ3D X՞Ray). This informs which implant types / sizes will be used during surgery and where they will be placed into the mouth to ensure a successful final restoration.
What is provided in Dandy Implant Surgery and Treatment planning?
When you partner with Dandy to provide your implant treatment plan, we won’t just supply you with a Surgical Guide and send you on your way. We want to make sure you’re equipped with the best tools, resources, and materials to complete your implant surgery with ease. When you plan your implants with Dandy, you’ll receive:
- A 3D-printed model for physical fit check on your patient, unless it’s an edentulous case
- Your custom Surgical Guide
- The sleeve that matches your drill kit in the Surgical Guide
- A Surgical plan PDF that is printed out with images and drilling instructions based on your implant system
- A healing abutment if requested
- A temporary crown or immediate denture if requested
Treatment Planning and Surgical Guides FAQ
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Dandy surgical guide protocol supports all major implant systems. If you put us in touch with your implant rep, we can always ensure that the system is supported in guided surgery.
The final product of a treatment plan is a Surgical Guide, a 3-D printed acrylic device with titanium sleeves aligned to where the implants should be placed, which enables a safer, more accurate, and more successful surgery.
Yes! Dandy would be happy to print the surgical guide based on the guided surgery treatment plan the doctor designs.
Top-of-the-line Carbon Printers, which offer the most accurate guides.
Yes. Using Dandy’s Treatment Planning software, CBCT scans (or CT scans) are combined with a patient’s intraoral scans (STL) to create an accurate picture for implant placement.
Yes! Dandy’s Implant Surgery program is designed to support every doctor’s unique needs.
Dandy is able to support nearly all implant manufacturers – like Nobel, Strauman, and bioHorizons, as well as lesser known manufacturers – for treatment planning. For less common implant manufacturers, a Dandy Treatment Planner will coordinate directly with the implant manufacturer to get the correct specs for the plan.
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