MD Guide Intro Kit

The MD Guide Intro Kit system provides a simple solution to more accurate mesio-distal spacing and parallelism, no matter what implant system or brand you may be utilizing. It is not changing your current surgical protocol; it is just helping make it more accurate.

The MD Guide minimizes the stress of misaligned or malpositioned implants and can save time and money over conventional surgical guides, according to the company. It allows you to work efficiently and accurately in implant positioning.

The MD Guide provides for an alternative method to fabricating a conventional surgical guide. In theory, using some sort of a surgical guide when placing implants to ensure they are properly positioned can be helpful, as a millimeter can make a real difference in the final implant crown fabrication.

What is clinically useful about the MD Guide is that you are not changing your current surgical protocol or your dental implant system. The MD Guide just allows you to drill your pilot hole more accurately in terms of mesio-distal spacing and parallelism.

Instead of using the pilot drill with your implant system, the MD Guide can be used. It is a pilot drill and an alternative surgical guide combined. You are still drilling “free-hand” but with more accuracy.

The MD Guide Intro Kit contains five drilling guides and five non-drilling guides (or virtual teeth) that are specifically sized to match the mesio-distal dimension of the future restoration. The drilling guides and non-drilling guides are sized at 6 mm, 7.5 mm, 9 mm, 10.5 mm and 12 mm diameters. The drill length is 7.5 mm and has a diameter of 2 mm for all the drilling guides.

Once the correct drilling guide size is selected, the cylinder is placed against the adjacent tooth to create your pilot hole. After the first pilot hole is made, the drilling guide is replaced with the exact same sized virtual tooth.

For example, if you used a 7.5 mm drill, you then place the 7.5 mm virtual tooth in its place upon completion of drilling your first pilot hole.

If an additional implant is being placed, you would continue the steps, but instead of estimating your second pilot hole, you will now align the drilling guide cylinder against the virtual tooth that was placed previously vs. against the actual tooth, as was the case with the first pilot hole.