Dental implant surgery support system using CAD/CAM method

Abstract

Our novel implant support system `BONE NAVI` with simulation and surgical guide has already been applied on trial to over 100 clinical cases in Japan. In restorative-driven implant therapy accurate implant placement is required. We developed two types of surgical guides to help enlarge the hole. One is a single guide method of fixing a guide on the bone and exchanging several inner tubes to guide the drill until the implant insertion. The other is a multi guide method of changing several guides with a different-size guide tube. The purposes of this study are to introduce the protocol of `BONE NAVI` system and to examine the accuracy of drilling when these two types of surgical guides are used in a pig bone. By using BONE NAVI system drilling on the bone is expected to be done more precisely. Our system will be applicable for severe clinical cases that requires accurate implant placement, and the selection from these two systems will be possible according to the case.