Guided Surgery
Guided dental surgery is considered a predictable and consistent way of placing implants. In order to maximize the use of such guides, strict adherence to data acquisition and understanding is key.
Dr Seung Baek reviews the principles of integrating Cone Beam CT images with digitized impressions to provide a comprehensive, 3-D enabled surgical plan and guide. Some of the issues and questions covered include:
Guided Surgery
- What is Guided Surgery and what it does for us.
- Can we do all the implant cases with guided surgery?
- How Cone Bean CT works and how we should use the data.
- Do we need to buy CBCT? Which CBCT machine should we buy?
CBCT
- How mesh files are made and How we can utilize the file.
- Intra oral scan versus Extra oral scan.
Mesh files (Surface Data)
- Optimal applications for milling or printing.
- What we can do with 3d printer in Dentistry.
Milling and Printing