Kit features several precise drilling tools and guide development for efficient surgery with minimal error and drill heating
What key features and benefits do you like best about the OneGuide kit?
Most guided surgery systems will have a 2-part system—there is a key and then there is the drill. With a lot of other systems, the key sometimes will fall out during surgical placement or it’s just an additional piece that no one wants to deal with. The OneGuide kit has eliminated that key, so now only the drill is going into the stent. The second benefit is what is called the open system. With most guided surgery for patients who have a limited or occluded opening, you can’t get the drill into the actual guide stent because you just need too much height. The OneGuide stent has a side entry, so you can do guided surgery on patients who have a more limited opening.
What made you want to try or purchase the OneGuide kit?
I have been teaching guided surgery for years, and what I found attractive about this kit was the side opening. There have been a lot of times when I teach courses and students would have a hard time getting the drill in there. That is probably one of the most attractive features of the kit.
What challenges have you encountered that OneGuide helped you overcome?
A lot of times with implant surgery, there is the fear of the unknown. Practitioners will not do an implant case because they simply do not know where the nerve is, they don’t know how much distance they have to the sinus, or there may be a lingual undercut where they cannot detect it. By doing implants with guided surgery, it eliminates this fear. Also, this is minimally invasive surgery, so whereas in the past we would have to make an incision, flap the gingiva, and do a stitch, now a punch incision is made that is less than 3 mm in width. As a result, patients have a much higher rate of healing versus traditional implant surgery.
This product greatly reduces heat generation. What can such heat do to an implant site?
Heat generation has always been a concern because if you take the bone past a certain temperature, the bone will die off. One of the limitations for other surgical guide kits is that the design of the guide prevented irrigation from getting to the tip of the drill. If you don’t get irrigation to the drill, you can’t cool the drill tip. With the design of the current OneGuide drill, plus the side entry where you can get irrigation to the drill bit, it drastically reduces the overall heat generation. By reducing the overall heat generation, you are going to have less cell death.
