Materialise Dental: Top-notch backward planning – with Immediate Smile

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When dealing with edentulous patients, it is paramount to start at the end-point by ruling out any anatomical, functional and esthetical surprises during implant surgery. SimPlant® reveals all details about a patient’s bone and soft tissue – crucial information when engaging in restorative-driven planning. Thanks to SimPlant® and the Immediate Smile® model, an accurate restoration can be made well in advance – seeing patients leave surgery with a carefully prepared new smile is the fruitful result of thinking and acting ahead.

The Immediate Smile® model plays a pioneering role on the market, in that it enhances communication with the dental lab by delivering all the necessary tools to fabricate a fixed restoration prior to surgery – a bone model, silicone soft tissue and copy of the scan prosthesis. This is interdisciplinary dentistry at its best.

The bone model represents the patient’s bone anatomy and contains implant sites that correspond with the SimPlant® 3D plan. The implant sites are adapted to the dimensions of the implant analogs. A clever time- and money-saving fixation system even allows for easy recuperation of implant analogs.

A lifelike silicone soft tissue, which is perforated at the implant positions, represents the patient’s soft tissue, helping the lab take into account the realistic soft tissue thickness during fabrication of the restoration.

A prosthesis duplicate is a copy of the scan prosthesis that fits perfectly onto the bone model allowing for accurate articulation. It also enables the lab to fabricate the restoration the way the clinician planned it. At the time of surgery, the restoration is then relined in the patient’s mouth to ensure a passive fit onto the implants.

As a result, reverse planning has never been more efficient for all parties engaged in implant treatment and avoids cumbersome procedures! Clinicians don’t need to use a guide to fabricate a model, because this increases the risk of damaging the guide. Also, they can follow the same routine procedures as with all standard guided surgery procedures, and implant holders are not required.

Immediate Smile® makes clinicians’ businesses stand out. It’s a unique marketing tool which can be used to attract patients when other implant dentists do not follow a strategy of thinking ahead in terms of adopting new technology and bringing esthetics into the equation.

Patients are given an accurate, predictable, esthetic and cost-efficient outcome. No more discomforting and uneasy smiles because of endless waiting times to receive new teeth, no more unforeseen expenses that hit patients hard in their wallets. They won’t even have to think about taking days off at work or worry about time- and money-guzzling follow-up appointments and the drag to get there every time and on time. Overall, an Immediate Smile® procedure enhances treatment acceptability because patients know they will have new teeth in no time.

The Immediate Smile® model is compatible with all SAFE SurgiGuide® kits available on the market: ANTHOGYR Guiding System (Anthogyr), Facilitate™ (AstraTech), Navigator™ (BIOMET 3i), ExpertEase™ (DENTSPLY Friadent), Straumann® Guided Surgery Kit (Straumann®), NobelGuide™ (Nobel Biocare), CAMLOG® Guide System (CAMLOG), and Zimmer Guided Surgery Instrumentation (Zimmer Dental).

Contact information:

Materialise Dental N.V.

Technologielaan 15

3001 Leuven

Belgium