Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Dedicated Full-Arch Practice Nuvia Dental Implant Center Austin, Texas
This session will review the often-debated topic of guided versus non-guided full-arch surgery. The lecture will emphasize the advantages that freehand surgery provides the full-arch surgeon and will help provide the practitioner the confidence and clinical techniques to consistently execute it at a high level. Key topics include: The benefits of developing freehand full-arch skills and techniques, necessary instrumentation, treatment planning for freehand full-arch cases, denoting/marking intraoperative ID points using the graphite-guided technique, selecting and correlating radiographic and clinical reference points for intraoperative use, and management of the edentulous arch from a freehand perspective.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants should be able to:
Explain why freehand full-arch surgery is an important and beneficial surgical skill to develop and provide to patients.
Apply treatment plans and execute high-level, quality full-arch surgeries without the use of a traditional guide.
Implement optimal freehand surgery treatment planning and techniques with a specific focus on the edentulous arch
