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Industrial News DENTALTRIBUNE Middle East & Africa Edition8 AD The Finnish dental equip- ment manufacturer Planmeca Oy and Belgium-based Materi- alise Dental started a joint effort that benefits users of Planmeca ProMax 3D imaging devices. Planmeca ProMax 3D users now can directly order Materialise Dental SurgiGuide® drill guides based on the implant planning done in the Planmeca Romexis software. The Planmeca ProMax 3D customers can order Materialise Dental SurgiGuide® drill guides directly from Planmeca Romexis software. This opens new per- spectives for Planmeca’s cone beam users, who can transfer their implant planning from the Planmeca Romexis software to the patient’s mouth, using the trusted technology of SurgiGu- ide® drill guides. A variety of implants can be planned in Planmeca Romexis with all available tools. This in- formation is sent, together with the DICOM images, to Materi- aliseDentalasaSurgiGuide®or- der. Materialise Dental will then import the data in their Sim- Plant® software, and contact the customer to verify and discuss the planning in SimPlant®. This ensures perfect transfer of the data and full compatibility. SurgiGuide® options are dis- cussed to find the optimal solu- tion for transferring the implant planning to the mouth of the pa- tient, based on the specifics of each case, the surgeon’s prefer- ences and implant systems used. This way, all technicalities are covered by the service. After pro- duction, the customer receives theSurgiGuide®,readyforusein surgery. “This new cooperation will help the users of our Planmeca ProMax 3D cone beam X-ray de- vicestofurtherbenefitfromtheir system. The implant planning can be done conveniently in Planmeca Romexis software, the same software used for image capturing,andwheneverthereis a need for guided surgery, Mate- rialise Dental’s prominent SurgiGuide® drill guides can be orderedandtheprocessfinalised with Materialise Dental’s profes- sionals”,statesMsHeliannaPuh- lin-Nurminen, Vice President of DigitalImagingandApplications Division at Planmeca Oy. “We are excited about this co- operation with Planmeca as a leading cone beam manufac- turer,” says Mr Bert Van Roie, In- ternational Product Manager SimPlant® and SurgiGuide®. “Since years our SurgiGu- ide® drill guides ensure a fully predictable transfer of the digital implant planning from Sim- Plant® to the mouth of the pa- tient. Now we can offer the same benefit to all Planmeca users, di- rectly from within Planmeca Romexis.” Planmeca and Materialise Dental announce co-operation The Thailand subsidiary of FrenchdentalmanufacturerActeon has announced to hold a seminar and workshop on the issue of bone management next January in Bangkok, Thailand. The semi- nar will be joined by Drs Fred Bergmann and Surakit Visuttiwat- tanakornaswellasProfs.Fumihiko Watanabe and Lars Sennerby. DT Managing bone with Acteon