What is Digital Dental Implant Technology?

Dental implant is to implant materials acceptable to the body, such as titanium metal, into the alveolar bone of the missing teeth through minor surgical operations, as a part of the oral cavity to support the dentures, and then inlay artificial crowns, bridges or artificial teeth on the implants. Place denture trays to complete the restoration of missing teeth.

Digital dental implant refers to the use of digital means in the process of preoperative design and diagnosis of dental implants, implant placement and restoration. For example, CBCT and digital implant 3D design software will be used in the preoperative diagnosis and design of dental implants; during the implant placement process, digital implants will use guide plate navigation; Production methods of oral scan impression, CAD/CAM and 3D printing. It shortens the treatment time, improves the operation efficiency, and presents the characteristics of digitalization "fast, accurate, safe, visible and controllable".

What is Traditional Dental Implant Technology?

Traditional dental implants generally use conventional materials such as alginate, silicone rubber, and impression paste to take oral impressions, which usually cause nausea and the patient experience is not good.

What type of implant to choose, what surgical method to implant, the direction, position, depth, etc. of the implant depend more on the judgment and operation of the implant doctor based on the dental film taken before the operation, and more on the The experience and technical level of the implant doctor, do not use the implant guide for positioning. Under normal circumstances, the surgical process is complicated and takes a relatively long time.

           Traditional oral impression taking VS digital oral impression taking

Advantages of digital dental implants

1. "GPS" planting guide plate positioning, accurate and safe

Digital implants use 3D digital printing technology to make guide plates to accurately fix the point, depth, and direction of implants. The three-dimensional virtual model is designed to implant implants, avoiding important structural positions, and utilizing the patient's existing bone to the greatest extent. amount to optimize the position of the implant.

2. Fast and minimally invasive, comfortable

Under the guidance of the surgery-guided template, the digital implant can be performed by the doctor without flaps, and the position, depth and angle of the implant can be quickly and effectively controlled. Only a small incision is needed, and the implant can be precisely implanted to reduce trauma and postoperative complications, and the opening is small , The time is short, and the patient can complete the operation process in a comfortable, painless and relaxed state. Get rid of the steps of incision, flap, suturing, and stitch removal in the traditional implant method, which reduces the pain of patients and improves the experience.

3. Visible and controllable

Digital implant technology collects patient oral information through oral scanners, and can directly create a three-dimensional virtual model on the computer to simulate the best implantation method, avoiding important structural positions, such as blood vessels, nerves, etc., avoiding some implants. Nerve trauma or penetration into the sinus cavities caused by improper insertion. Reduce the psychological burden of doctors and surgical pressure.

4. Repair Orientation

The digital dental implant is designed through the preoperative virtual crown implantation to meet the force direction of the implant in the crown and meet the aesthetic needs of the anterior tooth area of the implant.

In a popular analogy, digital dental implants are more like "pointing where to hit", which has higher requirements for digital implant equipment and relatively lower technical requirements for doctors. The experience and technical requirements are higher, and the requirements for planting equipment are relatively low.