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Surgical guide and fixation pins?
Hi,
I am concerned with not having a distal tooth stop on LL and UR of my surgical guides. Would placing a fixation screw(s) help stabilize them? If so, where? If not, then is there any other way to stabilize it better?
I have used a guide before without a distal tooth stop but only one tooth distal to a real tooth (e.g. #30 implant next to #29 tooth). With this case, I did notice a slightly more flex vs other guides that had a distal tooth stop and am concerned that there will be more flexibility when placing an implant 2 spaces away from the most distal tooth.
Thank you for your help.
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3 Replies
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Many ways you Can design to help improve your stability. Seeing that it is tooth born guide it should be very stable and you could do one screw fixation towards the gingiva side of the guide close to where you’re placing the implants. You also could have three fixation screws to have a more robust fixation one on the lower left and lower right quadrant as well as one towards the lower interior. They would be planned where there’s sufficient bone away from the roots of the teeth.
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Thank you for the advice!
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My pleasure
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This reply was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by Jedediah.
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