title: Digital approach to planning computer-guided surgery and immediate provisionalization in a partially edentulous patient.
abstract: This report describes a digital approach for computer-guided surgery and immediate provisionalization in a partially edentulous patient. With diagnostic data obtained from cone-beam computed tomography and intraoral digital diagnostic scans, a digital pathway of virtual diagnostic waxing, a virtual prosthetically driven surgical plan, a computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) surgical template, and implant-supported screw-retained interim restorations were realized with various open-architecture CAD/CAM systems. The optional CAD/CAM diagnostic casts with planned implant placement were also additively manufactured to facilitate preoperative inspection of the surgical template and customization of the CAD/CAM-fabricated interim restorations.
authors: Lecturer, Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; and Former ITI Scholar, Department of Oral Health and Rehabilitation, School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.
authors: Sirikarn P
authors: SP
authors: Arunyanak
authors: Associate Professor, Department of Oral Health and Rehabilitation, School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.
authors: Bryan T
authors: BT
authors: Harris
authors: Professor, Department of Oral Health and Rehabilitation, School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.
authors: Gerald T
authors: GT
authors: Grant
authors: Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, Indiana University, Indianapolis, In.
authors: Dean
authors: D
authors: Morton
authors: Associate Professor, Department of Oral Health and Rehabilitation, School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky. Electronic address: WeiShao.Lin@Louisville.edu.
authors: Wei-Shao
authors: WS
authors: Lin
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003442:Crowns; D003758:Dental Implantation, Endosseous / Q000379:methods; D017267:Dental Prosthesis Design / Q000379:methods*; D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D057893:Immediate Dental Implant Loading / Q000379:methods; D007576:Jaw, Edentulous, Partially / Q000601:surgery*; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods