Guided dental implant surgery is a computer-guided technology that utilizes digital CT Scans enhanced with special software to allow the dental surgeon to see every angle and plan an exact procedure for placing dental implants within the patient’s mouth.

Using the guided implant surgery process, dental surgeons create a precise surgery plan, locating the optimal locations to make incisions and determine the best path to the implant area. Because this process allows surgeons to see the human mouth in real-time 3D, they can avoid “hard-to-detect” problem areas, minimizing patient pain and surgery time.

“Colina Dental is the first dental clinic in Costa Rica to perform this cutting-edge dental surgery to give our patients the most efficient, pain-free dental implant services available,” says Julian Conejo, specialist in prosthodontics and dental implants with Colina Dental. “This process minimizes surgery time, dramatically reduces pain, and helps our patients heal faster than ever before. With some patients, we have been able to provide a full set of teeth in one day, which was unheard of before this procedure.”

Risk is present with any kind of surgery. However, new guided dental surgery technologies allow surgeons to plan solutions in advance for possible complications and help remove many of the uncertainties and risks associated with dental implant procedures.

Luciano Retana, a dental implant specialist with Colina Dental is confident that guided surgery technology will make dental implant surgeries easier, faster and less painful for patients. “This incredible technology allows us to see in real-time 3D, exactly what is happening inside our patient’s mouths,” says Retana. “Because we can work more efficiently and with less invasive procedures, many procedures are completed within 3 to 6 hours, which allows our patients to leave our offices with a complete, great-looking smile.”

At Colina Dental, our innovative guided surgery technique provides our patients with custom dental implant solutions that are a perfect fit every time…because they are tailor-made for each patient. A new procedure allows Colina dentists to provide a complete set of new teeth using only four implants. This process is known as the “All on Four” procedure. With the “All on Four” procedure, patients receive four implants and a complete set of new teeth that are affixed to the four new implants.

Colina Dental offers three kinds of dental implant procedures, including conventional implants, All-on-Four implants, and immediate-loading implants. Dr. Maricarmen Gutiérrez Moya, one of the founders of Colina Dental is amazed by the incredible advances in dental treatments over the past 36 years she has operated Colina Dental. “Even just a few years ago, implant patients would need to wait many months or even a full year to receive new teeth after their dental implants. Today, with Colina Dental, some patients receive a complete set of new teeth in a single day.”

For more than 36 years, Colina Dental has been providing innovative dental services in Costa Rica. As one of only four dental clinics in Costa Rica accredited with ProMed (Council for the International Promotion of Costa Rica Medicine) patients are assured that Colina Dental is one of the most recommended, highest quality dental clinics in Costa Rica.