What is a surgical guide?
Basically, a surgical guide is a mouthguard with the specific cylinder holes where the implant specialist will drill in to place the dental implant accurately.
Overall the acrylic guide allows the dentist to place the titanium screw in the perfect location and the needed angulation and depth.
Dental Technology use for an implant surgery
When you visit Advanced Smiles Dentistry in Tijuana, the dental surgeon specialized in dental implants will use different sophisticated equipment to create your surgical guide:
- CT scan (3D x-ray) with Sirona Orthophos
- 3Shape TRIOS Intraoral digital scanning
- Nexdent 3D printer
- Galileos Implantology software by Sirona
Correspondingly by using all these resources, the best implant specialists in Mexico can perform this surgery more efficiently.
Surgical Guide Benefits
- Accuracy
- Efficiency
- Precision
- Minimum chance of margin of error
- Reduces chair time
- Faster healing process
- Dimmish risk of infection, bleeding and swelling
Straumann: Dental Implant Process
If you are missing one or more teeth you can travel to Tijuana and visit the best dental clinic near to the border to get an implant. Our certified dentist can evaluate your case and make a dental treatment plan to help you rehabilitate and get you a full smile.
To demonstrate in detail the treatment can be completed in 6 to 8 months (best case scenario) even so a personal consultation where CT scan, panoramic x-ray and clinical evaluation are taken will help to create a personalized treatment based on your needs.
For example, the best-case scenario can look something like this:
First, the dental assistant will take all the proper x-rays to complete the dental record for the dentist to assess. Once the dental evaluation is completed, the implant specialist is going to proceed with the digital intra-oral scanning. After this our dental technician will start designing the surgical guide in our in-house dental lab. Therefore, if possible, we could do the placement of the titanium screw in the same day.
Secondly, after 4 to 6 months we’ll see you again to move on with the second stage of the implant process which is the healing abutment (connection between the dental screw and the final crown).
A third appointment is necessary after 6 weeks to take the dental impression.
Finally, two weeks after the crown impression you can get the final crown over the implant.
