3D printed individual drill sleeve for depth controlled sections in third molar surgery

During surgical third molar removals and coronectomy procedures, tooth sectioning is an important and, in some cases, an inferior alveolar nerve endangering step. This description introduces a drilling sleeve, which was printed according to the individual tooth sectioning situation preoperatively, using the diagnostic cone-beam CT data. The sleeve functioned in our case not only as a mark on the drill, it was a reliable physical limiter, determinant of the required depth during tooth sectioning.

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