Chirurgie implantaire guidée

Navigation dynamique 3D Navident

Chirurgie implantaire guidée

Votre scan CBCT devient un plan chirurgical numérique — et pendant l'intervention, l'angle, la profondeur et la position du foret sont suivis en direct par rapport à ce plan, à l'écran. C'est la navigation dynamique avec Navident EVO, intégrée au flux implantaire standard de Dental Med Austria à Tirana.

What dynamic navigation is

Dynamic navigation is often described as GPS for implant surgery. Navident, developed by ClaroNav in Toronto, Canada, tracks the surgical handpiece and the patient's jaw with an optical camera and shows the drill's angle, depth and position superimposed on the patient's own CBCT data in real time. The surgeon is no longer transferring a plan from a screen to the mouth by eye — the plan and the drill share one live picture.

Dental Med Austria runs Navident EVO, the system generation ClaroNav introduced in 2023. The manufacturer reports more than 200,000 implants placed with Navident guidance worldwide — a technology documented across a decade of clinical use, not an experiment.

One clarification worth making: Navident is the name of the navigation technology itself, made by ClaroNav — not the name of a clinic. A similar-sounding clinic name is not the same thing as operating this system. Any clinic claiming dynamic navigation should be able to show you the device and your own CBCT plan on its screen — we are happy to, at your consultation.

Navigation starts from imaging, and ours is in-house: the same Vatech A9 cone-beam CT that produces your diagnostic 3D scan produces the dataset your surgery is navigated on.

Chirurgie implantaire guidée

The systems behind it

Navident

EVO Navigation

Dynamic 3D surgical navigation - real-time guidance from your CBCT scan that places implants with sub-millimetre accuracy.

Vatech

A9 CBCT

A cone-beam 3D scanner with AI-assisted panoramic reconstruction - the diagnostic cornerstone for implant, All-on-X, and complex surgical planning.

The full clinic and laboratory inventory is on Technologie.

Chirurgie implantaire guidée

From scan to placed implant: how it works

Low-dose 3D CBCT scan

A cone-beam CT scan on our Vatech A9 captures your jaw in three dimensions — bone volume and density, the mandibular nerve canal, the sinus floor and the roots of neighbouring teeth.

Digital surgical plan

On that 3D dataset, the clinical team plans each implant's exact position, angle and depth in software — around your anatomy, before any instrument touches you.

Registration

In the chair, the navigation system is registered to your anatomy so its optical camera can track both your jaw and the surgical handpiece continuously. No physical guide needs to be printed or fitted.

Real-time navigated placement

During surgery, the drill's angle, depth and position are displayed live, superimposed on your CBCT plan. The surgeon watches deviation from the plan in real time and can refine the plan mid-procedure if your anatomy calls for it.

Verification and documentation

The achieved implant position is checked against the plan, and the implant's brand and serial numbers are recorded in your implant passport — so what was placed is traceable for life.

Published evidence

Why millimetres matter

An implant sits close to structures that do not forgive error: the mandibular nerve canal, the sinus floor, the roots of neighbouring teeth. Safe placement is a question of millimetres and degrees — which is exactly what navigation measures and displays continuously during surgery.

The accuracy figures here come from the peer-reviewed literature on the technique, not from our own marketing. A 2023 systematic review and meta-analysis in the Journal of Dentistry pooled ten years of clinical studies of dynamic navigation and reported mean positional accuracy under 1 mm — sub-millimetre precision. A 2026 meta-analysis in the Journal of Periodontal Research comparing freehand, static-guide and dynamically navigated placement found that both computer-assisted approaches transfer the digital plan to the jaw significantly more accurately than freehand placement, with no clinically relevant accuracy difference between static and dynamic.

In plain terms: the published evidence says computer guidance puts the implant measurably closer to where it was planned. We do not restate those numbers as a promise about any individual surgery — anatomy, healing and case complexity remain individual — but they are why navigated placement is part of our written surgical protocols rather than an optional extra.

An honest comparison

Freehand, static guide, dynamic navigation

All three are legitimate approaches used by good clinicians worldwide. The characterisations below follow the published comparisons cited on this page — this is about techniques, not about anyone's clinic.

Freehand placement

The surgeon works from the CBCT images and direct vision, relying on experience and spatial judgment. A legitimate, widely used approach, particularly in straightforward cases.

In published comparisons it shows the largest average deviations from the digital plan of the three approaches — meta-analyses consistently find computer assistance transfers the plan to the jaw more accurately.

Static surgical guides

A drill guide is 3D-printed from the digital plan and seated in the mouth during surgery. Documented accuracy is excellent — comparable to dynamic navigation in meta-analyses.

The plan is frozen once the guide is printed: it cannot be adjusted mid-surgery, fabrication adds a step, and the guide itself occupies space — a constraint with limited mouth opening or when irrigation and direct sight matter.

Dynamic navigation (Navident)

No physical guide — an optical camera tracks jaw and handpiece, and the drill is displayed live on the CBCT plan. Accuracy in meta-analyses is comparable to static guides, and well ahead of freehand.

The advantages are workflow ones: nothing to fabricate, the plan stays adjustable during surgery, and the surgical field stays open. Like any instrument, it depends on trained, disciplined use — which is why it sits inside our documented protocols.

Questions patients ask about navigated surgery

Is Navident-guided implant surgery available in Albania?

Yes. Dental Med Austria in Tirana operates the Navident EVO dynamic navigation system alongside in-house Vatech CBCT imaging, so the scan, the digital plan and the navigated placement all happen under one roof.

What is dynamic navigation, in plain terms?

It is often described as GPS for implant surgery. An optical camera tracks your jaw and the surgical handpiece, and the software shows the drill's angle, depth and position superimposed live on your own CBCT scan — so the surgeon sees exactly where the drill is relative to the plan, the nerve canal and the sinus at every moment.

Is dynamic navigation more accurate than a static drill guide?

Published meta-analyses find both static guides and dynamic navigation transfer the digital plan significantly more accurately than freehand placement, with no clinically relevant accuracy difference between the two. The practical advantages of navigation are workflow ones: no guide to fabricate, a plan that can be adjusted mid-surgery, and an unobstructed surgical field.

Does dynamic navigation replace the surgeon?

No. Navigation is a guidance display, not a robot: drilling remains entirely in the clinician's hands, and published accuracy depends on trained, protocol-driven use. It adds a continuous, objective check of angle and depth against the plan — it does not remove clinical judgment.

What happens to my surgical plan after the procedure?

The achieved position is verified against the plan, and the implant you received is documented in an implant passport with its brand and serial numbers — verifiable with the manufacturer by you or any dentist, anywhere.

Sources

Protocoles & Procédures

Comment Chaque Rendez-vous Reste Sûr

Les protocoles de stérilisation, d’hygiène et de chirurgie derrière chaque traitement.

Treatments

Dental implants in Tirana

The implant systems this navigation workflow places — from accessible CE-marked options to Straumann — with transparent pricing and a free remote treatment plan.

Questions & answers

Patient questions, answered

Plain answers to the questions international patients actually ask — costs, timelines, safety, travel and aftercare.

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