Application of digital implant system on implant treatment with “all-on-4” concept / 대한치과보철학회지

Recently, digital implant systems are expanding its influence in dental area. Due to technical improvement, they jumped over their limits nowadays. We can use these newest systems to treat edentulous patient, from implant surgery to fabrication of prosthesis. In this case, The patient was a fifty years old female. She had a full edentulous ridge on mandible and wanted to reconstruct occlusion with using implants. We planned to use digital implant system with “all-on-4” concept on mandible and produced surgical guide for flapless implant surgery. After the surgery, we tried to fabricate full arch prosthesis just using a digital devices and confirmed satisfying result.

Implant prosthesis for fully edentulous patients using intra-oral scanning and abutment merging technique: A case report / 대한치과보철학회지

In this case, the impression surface of the existing denture was scanned and was inverted three-dimensionally to express the residual ridge form. Implant planning was performed on the superimposed data of the CT with the scanned image of the denture with radiopaque markers attached. At the day of surgery, customized abutments fabricated in accordance with the form of the gingival margin were linked with fixtures and temporary restorations were set. In the process of fabricating the final prosthesis after the osseointegration of implant fixture, the intraoral scan images at abutment level were merged with images of the abutments scanned and stored before implant surgery. By fabricating the final prosthesis with the abutments obtained by merging can increase the marginal fitness of the final prosthesis and simplify the clinical process.

Immediate restorations in a fully edentulous patient utilizing digital system: A case report / 대한치과보철학회지

This article describes how to use CBCT and an intraoral scanner in a fully edentulous case that enables the clinician to place implants with flapless guided surgery and to engage prefabricated, customized implant abutments at the time of implant surgery, with only 1 clinical consultation before implant surgery. The patient's existing denture is used to simulate the teeth, the soft tissue and the vertical dimension of occlusion, and jaw relationship in the fully edentulous jaw. It provides clinicians with a fast workflow and improves clinical efficiency.

The effect of guided flapless implant procedure on heat generation from implant drilling / 대한치과보철학회지

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the heat generation in bone in vitro during the guided flapless drilling procedure and the effect of drilling methods on the heat generation. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A model that has missing the first and second mandibular molars bilaterally was used. In group A, classical flap implant surgery was performed. In group B, flapless implant surgery using surgical guide was performed. In group C, flapless implant surgery using surgical guide without up-and-down pumping motion was performed. Temperature was measured with k-type thermocouple and a real-time digital thermometer. The thermocouples were placed at 0.5 mm away from the osteotomy area at the depths of 3 mm and 6 mm. The measured values were evaluated with independent t-test. RESULTS: The mean temperature generated was 27.2degrees C (SD +/- 2.1degrees C) and 27.5degrees C (SD +/- 2.3degrees C) for groups A and B, respectively. These differences were not statistically significant. In group C, the mean temperature was 37.0degrees C (SD +/- 3.4degrees C). There were statistically significant differences between groups B and C with respect to the mean temperature. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that guided flapless drilling with up-and-down pumping motion may not significantly increase the bone temperature.

Evaluation of the accuracy of two different surgical guides in dental implantology: stereolithography fabricated vs. positioning device fabricated surgical guides / 대한치과보철학회지

PURPOSE: Recently implant surgical guides were used for accurate and atraumatic operation. In this study, the accuracy of two different types of surgical guides, positioning device fabricated and stereolithography fabricated surgical guides, were evaluated in four different types of tooth loss models. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Surgical guides were fabricated with stereolithography and positioning device respectively. Implants were placed on 40 models using the two different types of surgical guides. The fitness of the surgical guides was evaluated by measuring the gap between the surgical guide and the model. The accuracy of surgical guide was evaluated on a pre- and post-surgical CT image fusion. RESULTS: The gap between the surgical guide and the model was 1.4 +/- 0.3 mm and 0.4 +/- 0.3 mm for the stereolithography and positioning device surgical guide, respectively. The stereolithography showed mesiodistal angular deviation of 3.9 +/- 1.6degrees, buccolingual angular deviation of 2.7 +/- 1.5degrees and vertical deviation of 1.9 +/- 0.9 mm, whereas the positioning device showed mesiodistal angular deviation of 0.7 +/- 0.3degrees, buccolingual angular deviation of 0.3 +/- 0.2degrees and vertical deviation of 0.4 +/- 0.2 mm. The differences were statistically significant between the two groups (P<.05). CONCLUSION: The laboratory fabricated surgical guides using a positioning device allow implant placement more accurately than the stereolithography surgical guides in dental clinic.