Guided surgery: Advantages of guided surgery in immediate-load cases

Sandra Ferrer, CAD CAM specialist at the company Avinent, has more than 20 years of experience in the dental sector and has been working with guided surgery cases for over 12 years.

Avinent Group

Guided surgery is a tool that allows you to plan the implant placement in a three-dimensional space, with maximum precision, when restoring partially or fully edentulate maxillae.
In this type of surgery, the prosthetic restoration is what guides the treatment and enables you to plan the position of the dental implants, favouring the result as a whole in the long term.
To plan the guided placement of one or more implants, you need an x-ray diagnosis using CBCT and an intraoral scan of the patient. By transferring this data to a specialized software program, it is possible to manufacture a customized surgical splint for implant insertion in terms of length and diameter, as well as the spatial angle, depending on the patient’s bone characteristics.

The main advantages of working with guided surgery are:

Accuracy during the treatment

The prior planning of the procedure, in conjunction with the manufacture of the surgical guide, enable you to position the implants accurately in an optimum position for the prosthetics, avoiding possible errors linked to conventional surgical techniques.

Patients now require maximum quality in treatments and excellent aesthetic results with as few visits as possible to the clinic. Dental design software can be used to design and manufacture a customized fixed provisional prosthesis for immediate load before inserting the implants, so that the whole treatment can be carried out in the same session surgical if the implants have the primary stability necessary to load the prosthesis.

Minimally invasive treatment

Surgery using the surgical splint makes it possible to perform minimally invasive transmucosal without opening a flap, reducing post-operative effects for the patient, and achieving a quicker recovery with a lower likelihood of infection during the post-surgical stage.

At Avinent, we offer the planning, the design and the manufacture of the whole guided surgery process to facilitate the professional’s work and resources and provide a better post-operative experience for patients.

Reduced surgery time

By planning the guided surgery in advance, the time needed to place the implant or implants in the surgical session is reduced considerably. If, in addition, a fixed prosthesis is placed on the implants that same day with immediate-load protocols, this significantly reduces the treatment time and notably improves the patient’s quality of life on a functional, aesthetic and psychological level.

Details of the result before treatment

Guided surgery enables you to make a diagnosis and see if any treatment is needed prior to implant placement and prosthetic restoration, such as generating spaces, increasing bone volume, etc.
It is also a very visual instrument for accurately explaining to the patient the treatment they are going to receive and the final aesthetics of the restoration, generating realistic expectations and full patient satisfaction.

Sandra acknowledges that over time she has seen that clinics are approaching cases with guided surgery more and more often, whatever the case, from very simple to more complex cases.

Avinent Group

In short, working with guided surgery ensures the dentist has full control in both the surgical operation and the subsequent prosthetic restoration.