Is It Safe? Digital Guide comparison with Legacy 2 Implant with Smile Design

The new Digital Guides are out!  Obviously one area of concern is if they are as accurate as Opti Guides.  I’ve done a number of cases and so far so good!  So here is a step by step simple anterior case.  Patient had a cantilevered temp on #7 and 8 after a previously failed implant.  She came in and we scanned her and took impressions for a flipper.  Since the last implant failed I didn’t want to take any chances.  I made sure I planned my SSI file with a margin mimicking the CEJ of the adjacent teeth.

Always good to get a feel of the patient’s lip line. Now you can activate Smile Design in the administration phase and access it in the model screen.  Obviously we have a high smile line, so we really have to nail this one.

Just some comparison images but you can see that we look really close to where we planned the case.

 

I love the hard/soft material that Burbank uses, it feels a little tighter than traditional optiguides.

I smoothed the broken temp/overhang and the patient will wear the flipper.  Super easy case.  Now if I had CEREC Guide 2 blocks I would have definitely used them.