Gwangju Smartwon Dental Hospital, Nationwide No.1 in Navigation Implant Surgery

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Smart One Dental Hospital (Director Park Jin-hwan), a leading implant surgery hospital in the Gwangju area, has been selected as the top hospital nationwide for digital one-guide surgery (navigation implant surgery) in the first half of this year, according to Osstem Implant Co., Ltd.

According to Osstem Implant Co., Ltd. on the 22nd, navigation implants are an implant procedure that improves the accuracy of implant surgery through computer-simulated surgery and minimizes pain and bleeding with gum no-incision or minimal incision, complementing the shortcomings of conventional implant surgery. In the first half of this year, Smart One Dental Hospital ranked first, followed by Seoul National University Dental Hospital and Yonsei All Day Dental Clinic.

Navigation implants obtain information such as the patient’s bone tissue, distance and angle to surrounding teeth, and nerve location through cutting-edge technology (oral scanner, 3D CT, 3D computer-simulated surgery). Then, a surgical guide device is created using a 3D printer to accurately place the implant.

Therefore, while conventional implant treatment required patients to visit about 10 times on average until the end of treatment, navigation implants reduced the psychological burden on patients with an average of about 3 visits.

Navigation implants, which are also performed as no-incision implant surgery, have the advantage of being a minimally invasive surgical method with less bleeding and pain.

In particular, since navigation implant surgery itself is performed without gum incision or with minimal incision, the pain and swelling felt by patients after surgery are minimized, and patients can return to daily life quickly with short procedure time and minimal visits.

Also, for patients taking hypertension medication or those with systemic diseases such as diabetes, navigation implant surgery can reduce discomfort (bleeding, infection) that patients may feel.

The navigation implant surgical method is also useful for full-mouth implant patients.

Full-mouth implants involve placing multiple implants and restoring the patient’s lost occlusion, where the position of the implants and the upper prosthesis is very important.

When performing full-mouth implant surgery with navigation implants, the exact position can be found through computer-simulated surgery, and implants can be placed accurately using the surgical guide device.

Park Jin-hwan, director of Smart One Dental Hospital, said, “Regular maintenance is even more important after implant surgery. There are various prognoses, from patients who have used implants for over 20 years to those who have only used them for 1 to 2 years,” adding, “It is not the end once the implant is placed; if patients regularly visit the dental clinic where the procedure was performed for maintenance, the average lifespan of implants in the era of 100-year lifespans will increase further.”

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