Implant drilling guides
Tooth- or bone-supported, from an intraoral scan merged with CBCT. Implant positions set with the prosthodontist around the final teeth, not around the bone alone. Tell us your implant system.
Implants and guides
The plan, in a form your hands can follow.
A guide turns a decision made on screen into a slot, a sleeve or a stop that fits one patient only. Medical-grade, biocompatible and autoclavable.
Guide types
One design process. Four kinds of guide.
Resection guides
Seat on the jaw and fix the angle and position of each cut, so the margins and bone ends match the plan.
See the case
Fibula cutting guides
Slots on the donor bone that produce segments of exactly the planned length and angle.
Step 3 of the case
Orthognathic splints and guides
Intermediate and final occlusal splints, and osteotomy or positioning guides for the maxilla and mandible.
Orthognathic workflowOrthognathic image: Lee YC, Kim SG. Maxillofac Plast Reconstr Surg 2023;45:42, CC BY 4.0.
From scan to implant guide
Five steps, one sign-off.
Intraoral scan
STL of both arches from any scanner.
CBCT
DICOM of the jaw; bone and the inferior alveolar canal segmented and checked by hand.
Plan
Scan and CBCT merged; implant positions set with you around the planned restoration.
Your approval, loggedDesign and print
Guide with sleeves for your implant system, printed in-house and fit-tested on a model of the patient's arch before it leaves us.
Deliver
Autoclavable, and delivered with a plan report your team can follow in theatre.
Evidence
How close guided surgery lands.
1.2 mm
mean deviation at the implant entry point with static printed guides; 1.4 mm at the apex, 3.5° in angle.
Tahmaseb 2018; 2,238 implants23 min
average theatre time saved when a printed surgical guide is used.
Ballard 2020, Acad Radiol; 25 studies3.6° vs 7.7°
gonial angle error in guided against free-hand mandible reconstruction.
Pucci 2020, meta-analysisFigures from well-equipped centres. Where navigation and intraoperative imaging are not available, the guide carries even more of the plan.
Need a guide?
Send the scans and your implant system or surgical plan. We reply with timeline and cost.