Using guided surgery, surgeons are able to create an exact, detailed plan for the surgery, including the best spots to make incisions, the optimal path to the targeted area, and even strategize in advance about critical structures that need to be avoided. It allows sugeons to view the human body in real-time 3D and is especially useful in dental implant procedures.

It is reasonable to expect that Orlando patients will soon have access to guided surgery technology for dental implants from a variety of providers.

The process uses a specially extended dental implant — up to 55 mm instead ofthe usual 10mm or 15 mm for normal dental implants. And it can be screwed into the cheekbone instead of the jaw bone, which could be a boon for those who don’t have enough jaw bone to sustain regular implants.

Plus, the new implants can be installed without surgery — instead, the patient first undergoes a computer scan that makes it possible to guide the implant into the jaw non-invasively.

Tests of the new implant are presently underway and the new implants should be publically available within the next year.

• Article at DailyMail.com
• Youtube video of “teeth in an hour”