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Implant Dentistry
Guided Implant Surgery
At Dahlgren Dental in King George, VA we utilize guided implant surgery! Guided implant surgery is a surgical technique that combines careful planning and advanced dental technology. Our team uses two types of scanners to plan your implant placement: a cone beam computed tomography scanner (CBCT) and an intraoral scanner. First, the CBCT captures 3D images of your teeth, gums, jawbone, neural pathways, and more. Then, we take goop-free digital impressions of your teeth using an intraoral scanner.
Once our dentist has taken scans of your teeth, our team utilizes cutting-edge computer software to place these two files on top of each other to create a 3-dimensional representation of your mouth. The software allows our team to virtually place a tooth where one may be missing, and create a customized surgical guide for implant placement. This surgical guide ensures that implants are precisely placed at the right angle and depth to fit your specific needs.
Why Guided Implant Surgery?
There are many advantages to using this technique. Benefits include:
- Reduced pain. This technique uses a surgical guide to make a small hole in the gums for the placement of dental implants. This allows for faster healing because it avoids large incisions and reduces pain, discomfort, and swelling.
- Higher success rate. Removing the need for large incisions reduces the risk of infection. Furthermore, computer-aided planning allows for the most suitable implant placement and the best restorative outcomes.
- Advanced technology and accuracy. Digital intraoral scanning replaces the use of traditional alginate “goop” dental impressions. Digital impressions are not only more comfortable for the patient but are also more accurate.
- Reduced surgery time. With our 3D-printed surgical guide, the procedure takes as little as 10 minutes.
Case Study
The placement of this dental implant case was done by Dr. La using the surgical guide, which allowed the surgery to be seamless and quick with less swelling and post-op discomfort because there was no large incision. All of these three implants are placed perfectly parallel, which is very difficult, if not impossible, to do using traditional surgical techniques without the guide.