When Guided Surgery Fails: A Routine to Recover the Implant Original Treatment Plan

Guided dental implant surgeries, their associated stackable surgical guides, and respective prosthetic techniques facilitate control and precision during implant placement and simultaneously streamline immediate provisionalization. Although implant treatments have demonstrated documented success, their failures both immediately and over time have traditionally required an additional surgery, a completely new prosthetic work-up, and subsequent fabrication of associated surgical placement components. This article describes a routine to recover the original implant placement treatment plan, without the added time, expense, or inconvenience involved in redeveloping the implant placement surgical guide. A case is presented to document the protocol for this routine.