Digital dentistry has evolved enormously to an extent that the replacement of teeth with dental implants has become a common treatment modality. With the advent of CAD-CAM procedures and various types of software, rehabilitation of missing teeth has become more predictable and accurate. The ITI consensus paper on guided surgery distinguished two general concepts in image-guided surgery: Computer-guided static surgery and computer navigated dynamic surgery.
All these means enable us to place dental implants in a prosthetic and surgically correct position 3-dimensionally. The digital protocol for computer-assisted static technique involves CBCT images of the patients, an intraoral scan, or a laboratory scan of the models followed by the superimposition of the two data. Virtual implant placement is performed on a computer, and the plan is then transferred to the patient using…
