When a patient visits the surgeon, to have missing teeth replaced in upper and lower jaw for example, a treatment will be started. This means that a 3D model will be made of the patient’s anatomy. Dealing with the upper jaw or lower jaw is to be considered two separate treatments.
The 3D patient model, the 3D radiographic guide model, as well as the dental scan, wax-up, and nerve annotations are linked to a treatment. This means that whenever changes are made to any of these items, the changes will be made accordingly in the planning scenarios linked to that treatment in order to keep the treatment data consistent throughout the different planning scenarios.
A treatment, however, can include several planning scenarios. Thus, based on a single patient model, the planning products (e.g. implants or anchor pins) can be positioned differently in a different planning scenario and saved as such.
This way of planning a patient’s full treatment simplifies the possible options for the surgeon and allows for the deliberation of different planning scenarios.