Placement of dental implants via the freehand approach may result in damage to the surrounding critical anatomy of undiscordant prosthetic position. A real-time navigational stereotaxic surgical instrument (navigation) may help to alleviate these undesired outcomes in the freehand approach. All patients received implants in the right and left the side of their upper jaws via the random use of the navigation or the freehand approach. Positional deviations between the planned and placed implants were measured on a final tomographic image matched to the baseline.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
32
Implant surgery using dynamic navigation assistance
Dental implant surgery via conventional freehand
Change between the planned and placed implant positions
Deviations between the planned and placed implants will be measured by matching the pre- and post-op tomographic images.
Time frame: 12 weeks
Damage to the surrounding critical anatomy
Any damage to the sinus maxillaries
Time frame: 1 day (On the day of surgery).
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