DIO Implant Placement

  1. Making an Incision on the implant site and raising the flap by using suture and hemostats. (like bicon implant)

  2. Guide drill. Penetrate through the cortical bone at the selected site. Drill to the depth where makes easy drive for initial drill.

             Guide drill is skinny and sharp, this design helps dentist to drill through the hard bone----cortical bone easily, and it also helps us to locate the penetrate point more precisely.

  3. Initial drill, to be used for development of osteotomy site after guide drill. Drilling depth is according to the length of the implant. Insert an appropriate stopper to ensure correct depth into the bone. Do not insert a stopper upside down. When you put the stopper on the drill, the stopper should engage with the drill, if stopper falls off, then it is upside down. The stopper size is corresponding to the length of implant, for example, if the implant length is 12mm, then you should give doctor the 12mm stopper.

  4. Depth gauge

    Check the depth and condition of the floor of osteotomy of the site. For identification, it has markings at 8,10,12,14,16 and 18 from the bottom, witch corresponding to the depth of the implant.

  5. Parallel pin, to check the orientation and occlusal of the osteotomy site.

  6. Pilot drill (does not need stopper), to adjust the slope or location of the osteotomy site formed with an initial drill to guide the drilling location before widening the osteotomy site.

  7. Tapered drill, our implants are tapered shape, we use this kind drills to shape the trajectory as the same shape as implant. The length of tapered drill should be the same length as implant length, but the diameter of the drill should be started from the smallest one to the bigger one, until get to the same diameter as implant diameter. Tapered drills have its own rotation type stopper. It enables to simply drill an accurate depth. 

  8.  Tap drill, tap drill has threads on. It will create threads on the osteotomy site. This will make an easy entry for implant. The drill size should be the same size as implant.

  9. After tap drill, we are ready to place implant. Attach the implant to fixture driver to place implant, and finish it with torque wrench. Then use screw drive to place the healing screw.

  10. Suture to close the gums.

Jenny Sheets

Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 12/27/2013, last revision 12/27/2013