Dental Clinic Bangkok, Thailand.

1. Treatment plan

Diagnosis and patient specific requests influence the treatment plan. The type of final restoration, patient's request for a provisional, number of implants and imaging procedure need to be taken into account for the patient's treatment plan for guided surgery.


2. Fabrication scan prosthesis

The scan prosthesis is a radiopaque duplicate of the current situation or the provisinal teeth set-up. It supplies the clinician with additional information for implant planning. When the patient is scanned with the scan prosthesis, the desired tooth set-up is visible in the CT images. The scan prosthesis is also used to visualize the soft tissue situation in the planning software. Furthermore, reference marks are incorporated in the scan prosthesis for the identification of its position in the planning software.


3. CT scanning

Regardless of imaging technology used, scanning with the correct parameters is the basis for accurate planning in the software and for correct implant placement.


4. Software based planning and fabrication of the surgical template

Software based planning allows for implants to be planned virually within the planning software. When completed successfully, the case plan is sent to the surgical template manufacturer. The software company may act as the surgical template manufacturer or the dental laboratory may fabricate the surgical template depending on the software concept used.


5. Surgery with Straumann® Guide instruments

After fixing the surgical template in the patient's mouth, the implant bed for S, SP, BL and TE implant lines can be prepared with the guided instrument include in the Straumann® Guide Surgery Cassette. The surgical protocol, provided together with the surgical template, recommends which instruments are required to prepare each implant site.


6. Prosthetic procedure

After fixing the surgical template in the patient’s mouth, the implant bed can be prepared with the guided instruments and followed by the guided implant insertion. The surgical protocol provided by the planning software indicates which instruments are required to prepare each implant site.