Basic Surgical Guides
Category: Surgery
Instructor(s): Nate Farley
Course structure: Lessons: 6 modules: 21 online lessons | Duration: 5 h 14 min
Course overview
When you are new to digital dentistry, the learning curve can be a bit tricky. One of the most cost effective ways to get into this niche of dentistry is surgical guides. They are so easy to make (with a little help) and are quite profitable. Bring your surgical guide fabrication in house and have better surgeries for less money. This course will touch on a variety of topics meant to get you comfortable with basic surgical guides.
Here are some of the things we cover:
- Obtaining good records with instruction on intraoral scanning (I use the Trios) and tips to get better CBCTs.
- Aligning STL files to set up for planning implant placement (we use Blue Sky Plan...free software).
- Learn to make a tooth-supported guide as well as an edentulous guide.
- Tips on 3D printing in-house, cleaning, and curing
- Finishing the surgical guide so you are ready to go.
Curriculum
1. Introduction
- Lesson 1: Basic Surgical Guides introduction
2. Scanning records
- Lesson 1: Intraoral scanning
- Lesson 2: CBCT tricks
3. Designing
- Lesson 1: Bluesky plan walkthrough
- Lesson 2: Aligning digital files
- Lesson 3: Setting up the case
- Lesson 4: Implant placement
- Lesson 5: Guide fabrication
- Lesson 6: Making edentulous guide
- Lesson 7: Dealing with scatter from metal
- Lesson 8: Digitally extracting tooth in meshmixer
4. Printing the guide
- Lesson 1: Printing the digital guide introduction
- Lesson 2: Sending to asiga
- Lesson 3: Sending to form 2
- Lesson 4: Reviewing the asiga and form 2
- Lesson 5: Cleaning curting and finishing
5. Two implants planned from start to finish
- Lesson 1: Start with meshmixer waxup
- Lesson 2: End with BSP guide
6. Frequently asked questions
- Lesson 1: Frequently asked question introduction
- Lesson 2: What is best to support guides?
- Lesson 3: Are guide tubes a must?
