RealGUIDE and the GuidedSMILE Plug-in
GuidedSMILE, in partnership with RealGUIDE, has developed a fully integrated plugin that enables labs the ability manage their full arch guided surgery cases efficiently and cost effectively. This comprehensive solution allows users to:
- Import records,
- Set up cases,
- Perform bone segmentation,
- Plan implants, pins, and bone reduction, and
- Prepare for online meetings with doctors, all within a single software platform.
One of the key advantages is its ability to streamline the entire process, eliminating the need for multiple software packages. Once the planning is complete and the doctor consultation is finished, users can design their surgical guide using the plugin’s wizard in just 15 minutes, and move onto the next one.
Take control of your full arch cases without the need to outsource them. The process is fast, affordable, and user-friendly, and with our quickest option, GuidedSMILE Lite, it allows for case to be completed, from records to suture, in as few as four days.
GuidedSMILE: Meeting You Were You Are
GuidedSMILE and RealGUIDE: DIY Laboratories
The RealGUIDE Viewer
Approve Your CT Cases
Plug-in Overview for Labs
Importing and Cleaning Dual Scan Records
Bone Segmentation Tooth and Root
DIY Laboratories
DIY Doctor
Tutorials and Training
Basic Level: RealGUIDE Viewer
RealGUIDE Scales with You
Evolve Your Full Arch Lab
RealGUIDE Key Features
| Key Feature | Description |
| Cloud-based accessibility | Users can access the RealGUIDE software from any device, including PCs, Macs, and iOS mobile devices, enabling them to work from anywhere. |
| Artificial intelligence and deep learning | RealGUIDE incorporates AI and deep learning capabilities, allowing the software to intelligently distinguish between teeth and bone structures for semi-automated segmentation. This AI and deep learning capability powers the efficacy of the GuidedSMILE plugin. |
| Open architecture | The RealGUIDE software is fully compatible with any CBCT, 3D printer, or CAD/CAM machine, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems and workflows. |
| All-in-one solution | RealGUIDE eliminates the need for multiple software packages, providing a single, comprehensive platform for digital dentistry needs. The RealGUIDE package has now been extended through the integration of GuidedSMILE directly into the RealGUIDE software. |
| Extensive OEM implant library | The RealGUIDE software features a vast library of implants and prosthetic components, ensuring compatibility with all major implant platforms. The importance of this only grows within the world of full-arch dentistry and its reliance on OEM technology. |
| Collaborative workflow | Users can easily share projects with colleagues, patients and GuidedSMILE professionals, fostering better communication, enhanced treatment planning and higher quality surgical guide output. |
| Affordable and scalable | RealGUIDE and the GuidedSMILE Plugin is available through a annual subscription-based license, making it an affordable and scalable solution for dental laboratories of all sizes. |
| Developed with expert input | The RealGUIDE software is designed in collaboration with leading dentists worldwide, ensuring it meets the needs of modern dental professionals. The GuidedSMILE plugin has been a year of continuous development leading to a solution that can reduce post-planning guide design from several hours to a matter of minutes - a huge efficiency for any full arch lab. |
| Efficient data exchange | Open project data can be exported in STL format, allowing for seamless integration with CAD/CAM systems for surgical guide and provisional prosthesis modeling. In addition project work can be shared directly to GuidedSMILE from within the RealGUIDE without the need to export and transfer the files separately. |
| Dedicated support | RealGUIDE users have direct access to developers, designers, and a dedicated customer support team, ensuring a smooth user experience and quick resolution of any issues. When it comes to guide design and guidance RealGUIDE's support is augmented with a dedicated team of GuidedSMILE professionals. |
Scale Your Full Arch Lab with Purpose
As dental laboratories strive to stay competitive and meet the growing demands of their clients, adopting advanced technologies and streamlining workflows become essential. GuidedSMILE, in partnership with RealGUIDE, now offers labs a clear path for evolution and growth enhancing a lab’s competitive advantage by decreasing per case cost and increasing speed to surgery.
| GuidedSMILE Roles & Responsibilities | Lab Benefits | |||||||
| GuidedSMILE Lab Levels | Level Description |
Implant Planning |
Guide Design |
Resin Printing |
Metal Fabrication |
Case Control |
Per Case Lab Cost |
Lab Speed to Surgery |
| Lab Level 1 | This level is ideal for labs just starting out with guided surgery or those looking to outsource the majority of the process. | GuidedSMILE | Client Lab | GuidedSMILE | GuidedSMILE | + | $$$$ | + |
| Lab Level 2 | This level is suitable for labs with some in-house capabilities but still require support for the more complex aspects of the process. | GuidedSMILE | Client Lab | Client Lab | GuidedSMILE | ++ | $$$ | ++ |
| Lab Level 3 | This level is perfect for labs with advanced in-house capabilities, seeking to streamline their workflows and maintain greater control over the process. | Client Lab | Client Lab | Client Lab | GuidedSMILE | +++ | $$ | +++ |
| Lab Level 4 | This level is ideal for labs with comprehensive in-house capabilities, looking to maximize efficiency and cost-effectiveness. | Client Lab | Client Lab | Client Lab | Client Lab | ++++ | $ | ++++ |
GuidedSMILE Plugin Benefits Deep Dive
How to Design Full Arch Cases in Minutes
Having separate planning and design software for implants and surgical guides can be problematic. While most software allows for simple guide design, creating more complex stackable guides, like GuidedSMILE, requires a comprehensive solution.
RealGUIDE and the GuidedSMILE plugin integrates implant planning, pin placement, bone reduction, and component selection. Upon completion, users can simply click the GuidedSMILE button which generates a CombiGuide or full stackable guide in minutes using a user-friendly wizard.
The Importance of OEM
RealGUIDE’s implant planning software offers a significant advantage by providing access to the exact OEM parts, including part numbers, offsets, and positions, when planning implants and abutments.
This feature ensures that the digital planning process precisely mirrors the actual surgical situation. By incorporating genuine OEM components into the planning stage, RealGUIDE eliminates guesswork and potential discrepancies, ultimately leading to more predictable and successful surgical outcomes.
Planning Tool and Design Tool Alignment
It is typical that labs need multiple tools and many hours within a the process of implant planning, treatment plan review and approval, and surgical guide design. Each tool has a role to play and may require the transferring of files from one program to another.
Think of the ease of use and inherent efficiencies gained when you can do ALL of this in one easy to use AI-powered software platform. That’s the power of GuidedSMILE within RealGUIDE.
The Importance of Robust Reporting
RealGUIDE’s implant planning software excels in both surgical guidance and case management. Its drill sequence report provides bone density-specific recommendations for numerous implant systems, enhancing surgical precision.
RealGUIDE also streamlines case management by generating comprehensive reports that consolidate all necessary information for ordering components, including implants and abutments. This eliminates cross-referencing and ensures compatibility, simplifying the process and reducing errors.
Go to Surgery in 4 Days
With GuidedSMILE Lite or CombiGUIDE Lite a lab can get from patient record capture to surgery in 4 days, but its a push.
- Day 1: Capture patient records, plan implants & guide design
- Day 2: QC review and approval
- Day 3: Print all resin surgical guides
- Day 4: Day of surgery
RealGUIDE Cost Factors
Within the GuidedSMILE Plugin we meet you where you are. That means the more that you are able to do in-house with both the RealGUIDE software and in-house fabrication the greater the per case savings.
For a typical CHROME GuidedSMILE case, if you plan your implants, design your guides, and print all of the resin components you can save approx. 60% vs having GuidedSMILE doing everything for you. With our all resin GuidedSMILE Lite your savings are even higher at 70% the original cost.
Plan the Evolution of Your Full Arch Lab
RealGUIDE offers a tiered approach allowing labs to gradually expand their capabilities and transition towards complete in-house production, with GuidedSMILE providing support and expertise at each level.
- Level 1: The lab uses RealGUIDE for guide design. GuidedSMILE is responsible for implant planning and resin and/or metal fabrication (if required).
- Level 2: The lab does guide design and resin printing. GuidedSMILE is responsible for implant planning and metal fabrication (if required).
- Level 3: The lab does implant planning, guide design and resin printing. GuidedSMILE is responsible metal fabrication (if required).
- Level 4: The lab is responsible for everything in-house. GuidedSMILE provides a QC support role.
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How To Get Started?
GuidedSMILE has developed a robust and beneficial onboarding process. Labs who successfully complete this process are able to start working on full arch cases with the GuidedSMILE plugin immediately.
Step 1
Get Educated
GuidedSMILE has developed an online RealGUIDE certification curriculum. It is is CE-certified, approx. 4 hrs. in length, and costs $200. It involves multiple choice tests, per education section, to ensure knowledge attainment. Labs must graduate in order to be able to purchase the GuidedSMILE Plugin.
Step 2
Purchase RealGUIDE
Upon graduating the RealGUIDE Design Studio course, laboratories will be directed to an ordering webpage. For labs that do not currently have the RealGUIDE software, they will have the opportunity to complete a form and initiate a conversation with RealGUIDE representatives. This consultation will help determine the most suitable version of the RealGUIDE software for their specific needs and requirements.
Step 3
GuidedSMILE Plugin
Once laboratories have acquired the RealGUIDE software, they can purchase the GuidedSMILE plugin for an annual fee of $900. As part of the plugin purchase, the $200 education cost for the online education is refunded, effectively reducing the initial cost of the plugin to $720 for the first year.