Quantification of image artifacts from navigation markers in dynamic guided implant surgery and the effect on registration performance in different clinical scenarios.

CONCLUSION: Navigation markers made of silicon nitride have the best overall performance and perform the best in registration under all circumstances owing to less artifact generation, better radiopacity, and desirable abrasion resistance. Silicon nitride can be regarded as an ideal material, including but not limited to oral implant navigator-guided surgery.
PMID: 30521650 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Implants - December 8, 2018 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants Source Type: research