First Cases In Israel with SimPlant and the Navigator System

That's it! We started to work. The first stock of the Navigator System Kits (Lab and Surgical Kits) is already here, and we started to perform cases with the leading doctors in Israel to create a knowledge database related to SimPlant and the Navigator System.

Click HERE for my Navigator webpage with info and cases.

This is a good time to THANK with all my heart all the persons who made this possible:

Preparations Stage (one of the most exciting years of my life):
- Dr. Philippe Tardieu (The main spirit behind all I do and (think) I know)
- Prof. Martin Gross (Knowledge and how to think)
- Dr. Dov Kischinovsky (Mentor and advisor)
- Dr. Alexander Gross (First SimPlant cases and infinite patience with me)
- Amnon Leitner (Panorama CT - i-CAT Israel)

Production Stage (Just started):
- Dr. Barry Marshak
- Dr. Moshe Goldstein
- Dr. Yuval Wind
- Dr. Hadar Better

And of course, Mrs. Fanny Gross, CEO - HA Systems Ltd., who gave me this great opportunity to work with the exceptional professionals above and with all our clients and potential future clients here in Israel.

http://www.simplant.co.il/

All CT Guided Systems Available In the Market

Even if you believe you are the best, it is important from time to time to compare yourself with others.

Here is a list that I'm compiling for the past months with what I believe are all the companies and brand names in the market related to CT Guided Systems for Implant Dental Purposes.

Press here for the full list with links.
Press here to email comments/corrections/additions/etc.

- Astra Tech - Facilitate (SimPlant as OEM)
- BIOMET 3i - The Navigator System (w\SimPlant)
- BIOMET 3i - The Navigator System (w\iDent)
- Bioparts - DentalSlice
- Dentsply - Friadent - ExpertEase (SimPlant as OEM)
- DenX - IGI - DentSim
- Dolphin Imaging - Implanner
- ERA Scientific - Dental Vox
- iDent - ImplantMaster - Scan2Guide - iGuide
- Implant Logic Systems - Compu-Guide Templates - VIP SW
- Implant Solutions - coDiagnostix System
- IMTEC - (ILUMA V-Implant) - DigiGuide MDI
- Keystone Dental - EasyGuide
- Materialise Dental - SimPlant – SurgiGuides - The SAFE System
- med3D - Software implant3D
- Media Lab Software - Implant3D
- Nobel Biocare – NobelGuide
- Robodent
- Sirona Dental Systems - GALILEOS - GALAXIS
- Tactile Technologies - ILS - Implant Location System
- TIMC Lab – CADImplant
- 10DR Implant System
- 3ddx - OsseoView

www.simplant.co.il

The Dental Industry Moving to Digital by Leaps and Bounds

With the introduction of new products offering Oral Scanners (Digital Impressions), the race for a "plaster-free" Digital Dental Platform has moved from the future to... now.

Components moving to be totally digital in the Dental Industry:

- Appointments, Accounting, etc. (already a few years totally computerized)

- CT / X-ray (already distributed mainly via CD from the CT Lab - or - local X-ray digital equipment instead of film)

- Volumetric (3D) Visualizations (already distributed from the CT Labs)

- 3D Implant Planning and Surgery Stents (SimPlant, NobelGuide, iDent, ILS, OsseoView, etc. - With SimPlant as number one in all reviews complimented with the Navigator System from BIOMET3i)

- Digital Impressions and Scanning (3M COS, iTero, D4DTech, etc. - No more trays and putty impressions - Samples)

- Digital Restorations Design (CAD - Nobel, Degudent, D4D, BIOMET3i, etc.)

- Computerized Aided Manufacturing (CAM - Models, crowns, bridges, stents, etc. - By stereolithography, sintering, milling, etc. - Nobel, Degudent, BIOMET3i, etc.)

A Real Revolution?

I often hear these questions:
- Is this a real Revolution all the issues around CT Guidance?
- Aren't you exagerating a little bit in order to promote just a new model of dental kits?

Let's see. This will happen to you the moment you will start using 3D Guidance Technologies (as SimPlant, The Navigator System, other 3D technologies):

- Use of your PC not just for emails and browsing the Internet (but a "real" use for your computer power).
- Detailed planning of all dental procedures before the treatment (press here for the advantages).
- Communication between surgeon, perio, prosthetic, lab, etc. experts via electronic media.
- The main medical-legal question will now be: Did you do everything possible to foresee and avoid possible problems? (as CT; planning using a dental simulation software, etc.).
- Sending plaster models via the Internet as 3D files.
- Dental planning software communicating directly with CAD/CAM equipment in the dental lab.
- 3D scanning claster models, bite impressions or directly 3D scanning the patient mouth (press here for samples).
- 3D "printing" or direct fabrication of models, stents, restorations, prosthesis, bars, etc. (press here for samples).
- Professional lectures explaining the procedures using 3D visuals (no more boring presentations).
- Explaining the possibilities to the patients in front of a PC display.

OK, now you see. We are talking about a Real Revolution in Dental Therapy, a whole new platform putting together until now individual technical advances; very similar to what happened to engineers and architects with CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Development / Computer Aided Manufacturing) a few years ago.

New SimPlant OMS

SimPlant OMS (Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery) is a new (optional) simulation module on top of SimPlant, replacing SimPlant CMF. It's purpose is bite corrections simulations and it is targeted mainly to orthognathic surgeons.

SimPlant OMS permits to digitalize the patient’s treatment starting from the CT, digitalized stone models, virtual planning, the use of digital wafers, virtual occludator, photo-mapping, etc.

Press here for a few screen captures of SimPlant OMS.

Press here to go to the SimPlant OMS Homepage.

SimPlant Nostalgia and Roots

Now that SimPlant Version 12 is under Beta tests, it is a good time to go back half of the versions to Ver 6.0 and remember all the basic features that made SimPlant even then (1999), the most advanced implant planning software in the world.

As all software developers know one of the toughest challenges in software development is what to do in the next version when you already have a state-of-the-art piece of software. Sometimes better is the worst enemy of good.

In order to really work with SIM/Plant Ver 6.0 press here to download a VMWare Application containing Windows 95 and SIM/Plant Ver 6.0. You will need also to download the VMWare Player from here. This should be "Exhibit A" in a future CT Guidance Museum, so I hope no one will complain about license issues here. To be impressed from the included audio-visual Tutorial back then ten years ago, press here.

Join the CT Guidance revolution!

BIOMET 3i and SimPlant - Navigator System US Educational Programs

CT Guidance technology has transformed conventional methods of dental implant treatment planning, surgery, provisionalization and the final restoration. In the last few years, there has been a growing acceptance and availability of three-dimensional imaging to better utilize diagnostic information. Clinicians are getting involved with CT Guidance in order to improve the precision of their dental implant cases, while being on the cutting edge of technology.

Press here for a short (1 min) movie presentation.

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Press here to download a brochure for our upcoming CT Guidance Programs, “Clinical Application of Computer Guided Implant Therapy” that will take place throughout the U.S. This two days course will offer an exciting opportunity for your doctors who want to learn more about implant treatment planning, surgery, provisionalization and the final restoration using our Navigator™ System in conjunction with SimPlant software.

Tuition (Course only): $1250 per person.

Salo Kegen

H.A. Systems Ltd.

BIOMET 3i and SimPlant Distributors in Israel