The Model + Waxup Protocol

This is IMHO the best protocol for preparing a case for planning implants (and abutments) using SIMPLANT (or other software). Very easy to implement giving optimal results not depending on the skills of the CAD/CAM technician doing the STL(s) registration(s) and most important, very easy to control by the dentist visually. To be used in conjunction with "The Cotton Rolls Protocol" (in previous item). See this LINK for a full description of the options, samples and how it is done.

The Cotton Rolls CT Protocol

Here you have a simple to implement technique to make very easy the STL registrations and few more great advantages. This Cotton Rolls CT Protocol is a must IMHO, for Kennedy Class I cases, when you have only anterior teeth for the STL registration. See how clearly the posterior gingiva appears in this LINK plus more information. See this LINK (soon) for the full "Inflated Vestibulum Protocol".

Actual (post-op) vs. Planned Implants in 3D

In case you have a post-op CT, here you have a great way to see and evaluate in 3D the delta between the implants planned and the actual (real) implants positions.

In this LINK you have a description of the whole process.

WHAT YOU NEED TO PROVIDE:

- The SIMPLANT .sof file (this is the actual file uploaded to SIMPLANT while ordering a guide)

- A post-op CT in DICOM format (no matter the denture status)

DISCLAIMER: This is not a recommendation to do an extra CT, it is intended for cases a post-op CT was performed anyway for other reasons.

In this LINK is the discussion in DentalXP.

The New HAPro Website

After a great work from Uriel Gross, the HAPro website is finally online at: http://www.hapro.co.il/.

HAPro Ltd. founded in January 2010 by Fanny Gross and Philip Segal, offers state-of-the-art digital dental technologies and services, from SimPlant for CT view and implant planning, surgical guides (SurgiGuides) from Materialise Dental and SAFE systems (as The Navigator System from BIOMET3i), to final restoration infrastructures from Biomain.

Press HERE to see interesting clinical cases included in the HAPro website.

Salo Kegen

http://www.hapro.co.il/

Dual Scan vs. Single Scan

Dual Scan versus Single Scan. In fact, this is a single scan radio-opaque scannoguide masked as base-plate (green) and teeth (red) and again as a single (dual-scan like) stent (all green) for comparison purposes.

Dual Scan: A radiolucent stent with radiographic markers (Gutta-percha or other). Two CTs are needed, patient+stent and stent alone.

Single Scan: A radio-opaque stent (base-plate 10% Barium Sulfate - teeth 30% Barium Sulfate). One CT patient+stent is needed.

Press HERE for the webalbum and HERE for the animation.

First Case in Israel using a Reduction Guide

Thanks to the initiative of Dr. Avraham Finkelman the first case in Israel using a Reduction Guide as a preliminary step for using a bone-supported SurgiGuide is undergoing. You can see HERE the preliminary pictures. As the case advance more pictures will be added.

SimPlant Study Club - Carlton Tel Aviv

Yesterday (31 Aug 2010) we had probably the best SimPlant event (Study Club) in the past years. Press HERE for the pictures.

Thanks to Dr. Barry Marshak who headed the meeting and to all the participants.

This is the way to go: To offer an open platform to share knowledge and experience (good and bad), by the SimPlant users themselves.

Question: Can this be done via the Web? Forums? Webmeetings? Video-conferences? I'm not sure. Maybe the answer is: You Can't. There is no replacement to people sharing the same interest getting together...

Press here for an example of the case presented by Dr. Ronen Dekalo, and here for the case from Dr. Ehud Teperovich.