TITLE:
Advances in Dental Implant Positioning Techniques and Their Clinical Implications
AUTHORS:
Abdul Aziz Al Sawai, C. S. Rajmohan, Hussein Labib, Said Tabiuk
KEYWORDS:
Implant Positioning, Treatment Planning, Implant Surgery, Computer-Guided Implant Placement
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Stomatology,
Vol.7 No.2,
February
24,
2017
ABSTRACT: Background: Advancing surgical reconstructive methods and demanding prosthetics need accurate and precise implant placements. Positioning dental implant is vital in both prosthetic and aesthetic perspectives. The optimal three-dimensional placement not only reduces biomechanical complications but also imprecates the odds of implant failure. Materials & Methods: By using robust text mining, searching and retrieval tools, 350 relevant articles were found and then out of them 161 articles were short listed for our review. They included systematic reviews, meta-analyses, case series and experimental studies. Conclusions & Results: Conventional freehand implant placement techniques remain experts’ favorite for uncompromised cases. However, for compromised cases that demand accuracy and predictability, various computer-based methods are in use. While computerized tomography techniques and use of interactive software prevalent in treatment planning, computer-aided design or computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/ CAM) fabricated surgical guides enable implantologists for more successful implantations.