Full Arch Fixed Implant Prosthesis

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Preoperative Considerations

Consent:

  • Pain, swelling, bruising, infection, bleeding
  • Implant failure
  • Nerve damage to IAN/Lingual/Nasopalatine nerves
  • Sinus exposure
  • Retained teeth/teeth fragments
  • Need for additional procedures

Anesthesia/Positioning:

  • Supine vs Fowler's position depending on arch and provider perference
  • General anesthesia with nasotracheal intubation vs IV sedation
  • Consider proprofol pump for IV sedation, depending on provider anesthetic technique
  • For IV sedation, consider longer acting agents (Ex: Dilaudid, Precedex) to decrease bolus frequency, especially if serving as both surgeon and anesthetist

Other:

Armamentarium:

  • Botox (case dependent)
  • Local anesthesia
  • Minnesota retractor
  • Self-retaining cheek retractor
  • Weider ("Sweetheart') retractor
  • Yankauer suction
  • Frasier tip suction
  • Trough denture or surgical guide
  • Dental implants
  • Implant drill kit
  • Implant handpiece
  • Mallet, osteotomes, and hand driver (for Noris pterygoid implants)
  • Multiunit abutment try-ins
  • Multiunit abutments
  • Implant profiler
  • Multiunit abutment screwdriver
  • Photogrammetry posts
  • Multiunit abutment comfort caps
  • 2-0 Silk suture
  • 3-0 Chromic gut suture
  • 15 blade
  • #9 Molt periosteal elevator
  • Surgical handpiece
  • Fissure bur
  • Large head carbide ("Pineapple/Egg") bur
  • Dental elevators
  • Dental forceps
  • Rongeurs
  • Tissue punch
  • Normal saline irrigation

Technique

Pre-operative panorex
Local anesthesia administered to maxillary arch
Local anesthesia administered to areas where cheek retractor will be secured
Troughed surgical templates created by restoring provider
Cheek retractor secured into place at upper and lower midlines and near commissures with 2-0 silk suture

Full thickness incision extending between posterior aspect of maxillary tuberosities
#9 Periosteal elevator used to elevate full thickness flap
Fissure bur used to removed interproximal bone to aid in tooth extractio
Remaining teeth removed with elevators and forceps
Troughed denture template used to guide level of bone reduction
Palatal mucosa sutured with 2-0 silk for protection and retraction
Bone reduction is performed with both rongeurs and a surgical handpiece
Hamular notch is identified
Using a sharp 2mm marking/precision drill, pterygoid implant osteotomy is started approximately 10mm anterior to the hamular notch
Drill is placed in the buccal half and at an approximately 45 degree angle with respect to the ridge
Drill is slowly advanced until resistance is encountered, signifying the transition from soft maxillary bone to the dense bone of the pyramidal process
Once in pyramidal bone, drill speed is increased to ~1,000 RPM and drill is advanced until it is felt to "pop" through the pyramidal process and enter the pterygoid fossa (usually occurs at approximately 20mm depth)
Drill is removed and replaced with a 2mm pterygoid osteotome
Osteotome is slowly advanced with a mallet, being sure to maintain the same angulation
Osteotome is advanced to depth, which is achieved when osteotome ceases to advance and/or dull, low-frequency audible percussive feedback becomes more high-pitched and resonant (usually about 20mm but no more than 25mm depth)
2mm osteoteome is replaced with a 3mm osteotome and the process is repeated
Pterygoid implant is hand-driven to desired depth
Process is repeated on the contralateral side
Standard axial implants are placed approximately at #7, 10 sites
Tilted implants are placed approximately at #4, 13 sites
Multiunit abutment try-ins are placed and implants are timed as needed
Implants are timed such that the anticipated screw access channel will emerge within the occlusal table or cingulum of planned tooth position
Implants are profiled as needed to allow for full seating of multiunit abutment
Final mutiunit abutments are placed and torqued according to manufacturer specifications
Photogrammetry posts are placed over multiunit abutments
Photogrammetry scan is obtained
Tissue punch is used on palatal mucosa to ensure that multinuit abutments will remain exposed after closure
Comfort caps are placed over multiunit abutments
Mucosa is closed with 3-0 chromic gut sutures
Mandibular arch is anesthetized
Full thickness incision is created between retromolar pads bilaterally
Full thickness flap is raised with #9
Bilateral mental nerves are identified and protected
Surgical handpiece is used to remove interproximal bone to aid in extractions
Remaining teeth are extracted with dental elevators and forceps
Lingual flap is mobilized after access is improved by removing teeth
Alveolar bone is smoothed with combination of rongeurs and surgical handpiece with pineapple bur
Axial implants are placed approximately at #23, 26 sites
Tilted implants are placed approximately at #21, 28 sites
Axial implants are placed approximately at #18, 31 sites
Implants are profiled as needed
Multiunit abutments are placed and timed as needed. Emergence of screw channel through occlusal table/cingulum is confirmed with troughed denture template
Photogrammetry posts are placed and scan is obtained
Bur holes are drilled in mandible to aid in securing tissue to its new position
3-0 Chromic suture is passed through holes on both sides
Impressions are obtained of upper and lower arches using denture templates as custom trays

Impressions are digitally scanned and merged with photogrammetry scan

Merging of all files creates a 3D digital record of implant position with respect to soft tissue and planned tooth position

Provisional restorations are then printed and implants are loaded same-day

Postoperative Considerations

Immediate:

Follow Up:

Operative Note

Surgeon(s): ***

Assistant Surgeon(s):  ***

Preoperative Diagnosis: ***

Postoperative Diagnosis: Same

Procedure(s): ***

Anesthesia: General

Implants: ***

Specimen:***

Drains: None

Fluids: See anesthesia record

EBL: Minimal

Complications: None

Counts:  Correct x2

Indications: ​***

Findings: As expected

Procedure in Detail:

The patient was seen in the preoperative holding area with a H&P was updated, consents were verified, surgical site marked, and all questions and concerns related to the proposed procedure were discussed in detail.  The patient was transferred to the operating room by the anesthesia team.  The patient underwent general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation. Tegaderms were placed over the eyes. The patient was prepped and draped in the standard fashion for maxillofacial procedures.  A time-out was performed and the procedure began.

Attention was first directed to the maxilla where **cc 2% Lidocaine with 1:100k epi was administered as local infiltrations and *** blocks. A self-retaining cheek retractor was placed and secured to the buccal mucosa with 2-0 silk sutures. A 15 blade was used to create a full thickness incision extending between the posterior aspect of the maxillary tuberosities bilaterally. Full thickness mucoperiosteal flaps was then raised on both the facial and palatal aspect of the maxilla. Under copious normal saline irrigation, a fissure bur in a surgical handpiece was then used to remove interproximal bone around remaning teeth to aid in extraction. Remaining teeth # *** were then extracted with dental elevators and forceps in total and without complication. Troughed denture surgical template was then used to mark the required bone reduction. 2-0 silk suture was then used to suture back and protect the palatal mucosa and in self-retaining fashion. A combination of rongeurs and surgical handpiece with pineapple bur were used to reduce and smooth bone to desired level. Attention was then directed to the R posterior maxilla where a precision drill was used to create an osteotomy at a site approximately 10mm anterior to the hamular notch near the tooth #2 position. The precision drill was advanced until the pyramidal process of the palatine bone was encountered. A 2.0mm pterygoid osteotome was then placed in the osteotomy and advanced to the end of the osteotomy. The osteotome was removed and replaced with a 3.0mm pterygoid osteotome which was also advanced to the end of the osteotomy. A *** mm pterygoid implant was then hand-driven into place with excellent primary stability. A ** * mm pterygoid implant was placed in the L maxilla, at approximately site #15, in an indentical fashion and with excellent primary stability. Attention was then directed to the anterior maxilla where parallel osteotomies were created approximately at the lateral incisor positions. Manufacturer recommended osteotomy sequence was followed and * * * mm implants were placed in the #7, 10 sites with excellent primary stability. Attention was then directed to the #5 site were an osteotomy was created with the precision bur angulated below the floor the maxillary sinus and engaging the lateral nasal wall at the apex of the osteotomy. Manufacturers recommended osteotomy sequence was followed and a * * * mm implant was placed at the #12 site with excellent primary stability. A * * * mm implant was then placed at the #12 site in an identical fashion. Multinunit abutment try-ins were then placed on the implants and the implants were timed so that anticipated access hole position was within the occlusal table of corresponding planned tooth position on troughed denture template. Implants were then profiled as needed and multiunit abutments were secured in place. Comfort caps were placed on multiunit abutments. Palatal silk suture was removed. Tissue punch was used as needed on palatal mucosa to expose the top of the MUAs. Soft tissue flaps were then reapproximated with 3-0 chromic gut sutures.

Attention was then directed to the mandible where **cc 2% Lidocaine with 1:100k epi was administered as local infiltrations and *** blocks. A 15 blade was used to create a full thickness incision extending between the retromolar pads bilaterally. Full thickness mucoperiosteal flaps was then raised with care taken to identify and protect the bilateral mental nerves. Under copious normal saline irrigation, a fissure bur in a surgical handpiece was then used to remove interproximal bone around remaning teeth to aid in extraction. Remaining teeth # *** were then extracted with dental elevators and forceps in total and without complication. Troughed denture surgical template was then used to mark the required bone reduction. A combination of rongeurs and surgical handpiece with pineapple bur were used to reduce and smooth bone to desired level. *** mm implants were then placed at sites #23, 26, 20, 29, 18, 31 with excellent primary stability. Implants at sites #20, 29 were angulated so as to avoid the anterior loop of the mental nerve. Multinunit abutment try-ins were then placed on the implants and the implants were timed so that anticipated access hole position was within the occlusal table of corresponding planned tooth position on troughed denture template. Implants were then profiled as needed and multiunit abutments were secured in place. Comfort caps were placed on multiunit abutments. A 701 bur was then used to drill several holes in the facial cortex of the mandible evenly spread out throughout the arch. 3-0 chromic gut suture was then passed through the facial flap, bur hole, and lingual flap so as to secure facial flap and keratinized gingiva down to their new position following bone reduction. Remaining soft tissue was also closed with 3-0 chromic gut sutures.

The patient's face was then cleaned and the posterior pharynx was suctioned. An OG tube was used to suction out the contents of the stomach. Tegaderms were removed from the eyes. The patient was then transferred back to the care of the anesthesia team for extubation and recovery.

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