Surgical navigation, or computer-assisted surgery, offers your oral surgeon game-changing advantages during your implant placement or other oral procedure: real-time guidance and ultra-accuracy. Using 3D technology, along with other advanced navigation systems and features, surgeons are able to make more precise placements, incisions, and additional choices throughout procedures, optimizing each surgery and increasing patients’ safety and recovery time.
What Oral Procedures Can 3D Surgical Navigation Systems Benefit?
There are a number of surgical procedures you can undergo where 3D surgical navigation can be used. These include but are not limited to:
- Dental implant surgery
- All-on-4 dental implant surgery
- Jaw surgery
- Surgery to correct facial fractures or to reconstruct certain maxillofacial structures
- Tumor removal
And others.
How Do 3D Surgical Navigation Systems Work for Oral Surgery?
If you undergo surgery in which your surgeon utilizes 3D surgical navigation technology, your surgeon will need to collect images before carrying out your procedure.
3D Imaging
Your oral surgeon will collect 3D images of your mouth and facial structures, which provide sharp, clear depictions of your teeth, bones, gums, and other structures. 3D imaging allows your surgeon to visualize the treatment area and optimize your surgery plan. It also provides the data the surgical navigation system needs to plot out the motions and moves required for ultra-precision throughout the surgery.
Surgery/Procedure
Relying on these images and image-guided technology, the surgical navigation system will plot out the motions required to complete an ultra-accurate, ultra-precise surgery. Your surgeon will follow the guided motions designed by the system to complete a much more predictable, less invasive surgery or procedure.
What Are the Benefits of Oral Surgery Using a Surgical Navigation System?
Patients who undergo an oral procedure where surgical navigation is used can expect several significant benefits, including:
Unmatched Precision
Surgical navigation systems calculate with extreme precision the exact location of each placement or incision and the specific actions needed to complete your procedure. Because they provide ultra-precise, real-time guidance for your surgeon, there is never a guess as to what your surgeon needs to do to optimize your procedure. In fact, it has been reported that implant placement using surgical navigation is 11 times more accurate than placements made without using this technology.
Improved Predictability
Because the use of surgical navigation means more accuracy and precision throughout the oral procedure, your surgeon’s decisions are far more predictable, and so are your outcomes. There is no room to guess or freehand when guided by a surgical navigation system—every motion is planned and optimized for the benefit of you and your surgeon.
Enhanced Safety
With ultra-precision and predictability come far better outcomes for surgeons and patients. Combining surgical navigation technology with your surgeon’s expertise means that your safety is optimized before, during, and after the procedure. The possibility of experiencing a surgical complication is significantly reduced, and so is the likelihood of suffering from excessive tissue disruption from implant placement or surgical incisions.
Faster Recovery
Because surgical navigation systems minimize the impacts of a procedure, healing time is often reduced, and the journey to recovery is usually simplified. Freehand placement, incisions, or other surgical choices can lead to unnecessary tissue disruption that increases pain and required recovery time. But when placement or incisions are more accurate and precise, patients only need to heal from what’s necessary, nothing more.
Dr. Tomlinson at Athens Oral Surgery Center Utilizes Surgical Navigation System Technology to Optimize Patients’ Safety and Healing Time.
Patients undergoing a procedure at AOSC can trust Dr. Tomlinson to combine his skills and expertise with today’s advanced technology to ensure success and safety throughout the procedure. Whether you’re receiving a dental implant, All-on-4 implants, or need any other oral surgery or procedure, our team will optimize your procedure to protect your health and improve your healing time following surgery.
Speak with our team about our technology today: 706-549-5033
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