Clinical application of fully digital Cerec surgical guides made in-house

It is now possible to produce full-digital drilling templates with Cerec Guide 2 (Sirona) in the dental practice relatively quickly, efficiently, and economically. Here, a patient case example is used to present an exemplary description of the procedure and method to do this. The solution described herein shows the advantageous efficiency, compared with other systems presently on the market, of a procedure that does not require the external production of the drilling template in the laboratory or a manufacturing center. Keywords: CAD/CAM, Cerec, chairside, cone beam computed tomography, implant planning/prosthetic planning, surgical guides