Implant Placement Guide Blog

Fabrication of Surgical Templates with 3-D Imaging

2012-01-12T08:56:00.006-05:00

Click to see Dr. Sean Meitner's most recent article in Inside Dentistry:

Fabrication of Surgical Templates with 3-D Imaging
The two-step Guide Right™ surgical guide system, which shows two planes, offers an alternative to stereolithographic surgical guides.

Maxillary Case Requiring Correction In 2 Planes

2011-12-16T09:47:00.000-05:00

Maxillary Case Requiring Correction In 2 Planes 12.12.2011

Magnetic Guide Posts with Open Guide Sleeves

2011-12-05T08:43:00.000-05:00

Magnetic Guide Posts with Open Guide Sleeves

Fully Edentulous Maxillary Arch

2011-11-28T08:46:00.000-05:00

Fully Edentulous Maxillary Arch

Maxillary Posterior Placement with Sinus Elevation

2011-11-21T08:34:00.000-05:00

Maxillary Posterior Placement with Sinus Elevation

Maxillary Cuspid Immediate Placement Case

2011-11-10T13:06:00.000-05:00

Maxillary Cuspid Immediate Placement

Mandibular Anterior Placement Case

2011-11-03T11:34:00.000-04:00

Mandibular Anterior Placement

Testimonials

2011-10-05T11:12:00.002-04:00

Check out our Testimonials page: http://implantguide.blogspot.com/p/testimonials.html

Have you had success using the Guide Right Template System? Share your experience with others!

New Article by Sean Meitner, DDS

2011-08-05T11:56:00.001-04:00

A New Bend in the Road to Successful Implant Placement

Visit The New DePlaque.com

2011-07-18T13:58:00.010-04:00

Our re-designed website is up and running! We invite you to visit and take a look at the new layout, navigation, and educational section. Click on the picture above to be redirected to our website.

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Insurance Code

2011-05-19T11:32:00.001-04:00

The ADA coding for the fabrication of a surgical template is: 6190 "surgical implant index"

2011 Product Catalog PDF

2011-05-17T09:44:00.001-04:00

Guide Right Product Catalog 2011

Single Tooth Restoration Using Cone Beam Techniques to Correct the Surgical Template

2011-05-09T09:34:00.009-04:00

Mandibular Bicuspid Placement

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Guide Right Generation II Bending Tool

2011-05-09T09:33:00.010-04:00

Guide Right Generation ll Bending Tool

Lower Denture Case

2011-05-09T09:32:00.012-04:00

Fully Edentulous Mandibular Arch

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Replacement of Maxillary Bicuspids and First Molar

2011-05-09T09:30:00.005-04:00

Maxillary Bicuspids and First Molar

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Guide Right components predict, position and place implants precisely

2011-04-28T15:10:00.008-04:00

by Sean W. Meitner, DDS, MS
Dental Tribune June 10, 2010

Promoting excellence and avoiding failure is the standard of my implant practice. To ensure precise implant placement, I have found that in-office fabrication of Guide Right template guide sleeves using multiple inserts in conjunction with radiography have resulted in measured implant placement accuracy that allows me the control, communication and confidence with everyone involved in a case.

It offers the opportunity to see, evaluate, verify and accurately place an implant, without wasting valuable time and chancing an implant failure.

The beauty of this template fabrication technique is its simplicity and versatility. The components used to create a basic template are a guide post and a guide sleeve placed over the guide post to position it with acrylic gel to securely capture the guide sleeve brackets and register the guide sleeve to the adjacent teeth.

The template is then placed in the patient’s mouth to verify the proposed axis visible in the radiographic image prior to going to surgery. A cone-beam 3-D X-ray is necessary to verify the template in 3-D mesio-distal and bucco-lingual views. A periapical radiograph will only verify the axis in 2-D for mesio-distal views.

If the X-ray shows an incorrect angle, the guide posts are bent with the bending tool or are available to correct the angle. The template is remade and re-verified. The open guide sleeve technique offers increased visibility to see the drill depth markings as you drill through it. It is especially beneficial if you are placing an implant in posterior sites.

Guide sleeves are available in stainless steel and ceramic. The use of ceramic sleeves reduces scatter in cone- beam X-rays when the template is verified in the patient’s mouth. Stainless-steel and titanium inserts are used with increasing drill sizes. A protractor can be placed over the X-ray to determine the angle and to assist in making angle corrections.

Why take a chance when you can observe and control your implant placement? Why not enter every osteotomy with peace of mind? Guide Right Techniques provides you with the components to predict, position and place an implant precisely.

About the author
Sean W. Meitner DDS, MS, is founder of Guide Right by DéPlaque. He is an Associate Professor, Department of Periodontology, at Eastman Institute for Oral Health, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. He is in private practice in periodontics, in Pittsford, NY, USA. Contact him at swm@deplaque.com

Getting Used To Guide Right

2011-04-19T15:23:00.012-04:00

Here is a simple flow chart to express the basic idea behind Guide Right (click image)

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2011-03-24T14:33:00.014-04:00

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