ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020
How Accurate Is Oral Implant Installation Using Surgical Guides Printed from a Degradable and Steam-Sterilized Biopolymer?
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- Comparison of the accuracy/precision among guided (static), manual, and dynamic navigation in dental implant surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Oral and maxillofacial surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Accuracy of Dental Implant Placement with Dynamic Navigation-Investigation of the Influence of Two Different Optical Reference Systems: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Influence of Process Parameters on the Characteristics of Additively Manufactured Parts Made from Advanced Biopolymers.Polymers · 2023Review
- Additive manufacturing technologies in the oral implant clinic: A review of current applications and progress.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Review
- Steam-sterilized and degradable fused filament fabrication-printed polylactide/polyhydroxyalkanoate surgical guides for dental implants: Are they accurate enough for static navigation?International journal of bioprinting · 2023Article
- Tailoring the composition of biocopolyester blends for dimensionally accurate extrusion-based printing, annealing and steam sterilization.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Cytotoxicity of polymers intended for the extrusion-based additive manufacturing of surgical guides.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Sinus Lift and Implant Insertion on 3D-Printed Polymeric Maxillary Models: Ex Vivo Training for In Vivo Surgical Procedures.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Does the macro design of an implant affect the accuracy of template-guided implantation? A prospective clinical study.International journal of implant dentistry · 2021Article
- Accuracy of Computer-Assisted Dynamic Navigation in Implant Placement with a Fully Digital Approach: A Prospective Clinical Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Accuracy of Computer-Assisted Dynamic Navigation as a Function of Different Intraoral Reference Systems: An In Vitro Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Pandemic-Driven Development of a Medical-Grade, Economic and Decentralized Applicable Polyolefin Filament for Additive Fused Filament Fabrication.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
3D printed surgical guides are used for prosthetically-driven oral implant placement. When manufacturing these guides, information regarding suitable printing techniques and materials as well as the necessity for additional, non-printed stock parts such as metal sleeves is scarce. The aim of the investigation was to determine the accuracy of a surgical workflow for oral implant placement using guides manufactured by means of fused deposition modeling (FDM) from a biodegradable and sterilizable biopolymer filament. Furthermore, the potential benefit of metal sleeve inserts should be assessed. A surgical guide was designed for the installation of two implants in the region of the second premolar (SP) and second molar (SM) in a mandibular typodont model. For two additive manufacturing techniques (stereolithography [SLA]: reference group, FDM: observational group) n = 10 surgical guides, with (S) and without (NS) metal sleeves, were used. This resulted in 4 groups of 10 samples each (SLA-S/NS, FDM-S/NS). Target and real implant positions were superimposed and compared using a dedicated software. Sagittal, transversal, and vertical discrepancies at the level of the implant shoulder, apex and regarding the main axis were determined. MANOVA with posthoc Tukey tests were performed for statistical analyses. Placed implants showed sagittal and transversal discrepancies of <1 mm, vertical discrepancies of <0.6 mm, and axial deviations of ≤3°. In the vertical dimension, no differences between the four groups were measured (
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