Stackable surgical guides: how single-visit full-arch (All-on-X) works
Stackable guides let you extract, place implants and seat a provisional in one visit. Here’s the workflow and why the “stack” matters.
Full-arch rehabilitation used to mean multiple guides, multiple visits and a lot of intra-operative judgement. A stackable guide system replaces that with a single fixated foundation and a set of guides that stack onto it in sequence — so each step references the same, verified position.
The foundation does the heavy lifting
A base (or “foundation”) guide is fixated to bone with pins. Everything after that — bone reduction, osteotomy, implant placement and the provisional — registers to those pins, which is what makes the result reproducible and removes guide-swapping error.
From scan to surgery in five steps
1) Upload CBCT and an intraoral or denture scan. 2) We build the prosthesis-driven 3D plan. 3) We design the stackable guides. 4) You print them — or we ship medical-grade resin prints. 5) You operate in a single visit, extraction to provisional.
Why it’s safer and faster
Flapless or minimal-flap surgery, less time in the chair, and a placement that matches the plan you approved — not a freehand approximation. For the patient that means fewer appointments and a same-day fixed provisional.