A Day With Guided Surgery Mentor

Placing The Implant Into The Plan

One of the best pearls was when he was teaching on selecting and placing the implant into the plan. There are the standard implant selections out of the Blue Sky Bio library. Using the fully guided kit is pretty simple once you have done it a few times. But what if you want to use another surgical kit? Armen showed how to place a “custom” implant and guide tube placement. This feature allows you to define the length, occlusal, and apical diameters of the implant that you want to place, and the guide tube inner diameter, height and offset from the implant platform. This allows you to custom design your surgical choices. You have to know your surgical kit and where you want the depth to be, but this allows you to design a guide that meets your customized choices, such as if you choose to do your surgery partially guided, like only using a pilot hole or alternate kit with any implant.

How To Design The Guide

Finally, he covered how to design the guide and save it as an .stl or .bsb file to send to the lab or to a printer.

My primary takeaway was that the Blue Sky Plan software is reasonably intuitive, but as with any tool, being coached and mentored by a master is invaluable.

Burbank Dental Lab welcomes any dentist that desires a reliable lab to fabricate guided surgery appliances, whether it is for a single implant site or a multi-unit site for an edentulous patient. However, it is our experience that participating with Blue Sky Bio Academy and Dr. Mirzayan for at least Level 1 courses, will save you hours of headache.