Implant clinics
Send the intraoral scan and the CBCT from your browser, choose the guide and pay. Approve the design on your case, then print it or send it to your lab.
Start a caseSurgical guide design for implant clinics and dental labs
Send a scan and a CBCT. Approve your surgical guide design.
Upload an intraoral scan and a CBCT, choose the guide and pay. The design comes back on your case. Approve it or send it back with a note, then download the approved design as an STL file.
Every paid case has a deadline, shown on the case. The clock starts once your files pass our checks and payment is confirmed. If the design is not back by then, a refund is raised automatically.
A deadline on every paid case
Shown on your case. If the design is late, a refund is raised automatically.
You approve first
Nothing downloads until you approve the design.
Depth checked for Straumann sleeves
Sleeve position, drill length, handle and driver mark are checked against your lab form.
Your printer, your lab
The approved design is an STL file you keep.
Who it is for
Dental labs
Approved designs download as STL files, so your lab can print them. If you send cases in volume, tell us what you need.
How it works for labsHow a case moves
- 01You
Upload
Your intraoral scan as an STL, OBJ or PLY file and your CBCT as DICOM: a .dcm file or a .zip of the slices. Files are checked as they arrive.
- 02You
Choose and pay
Pick the jaw, the guide type and the number of implants. The quote shows the price before you pay.
- 03Us
We design
Our design team and partner designers prepare the guide design. It is reviewed before it is released to your case.
- 04You
Approve or send back
The design comes back on your case. Approve it, or send it back with a note on what to change.
- 05You
Download
Download the approved design as an STL file for your own printer or lab.
Approved to your clinic in about 2 hours
In Dubai, at any time of day, approve the design and order it printed. We print the guide in medical resin, clean, cure and check it, and a courier brings it to your clinic.
In Dubai, at any time of day, a printed guide reaches your clinic about 2 hours after you approve the design.
- You approveApprove the design on your case and choose a printed guide.
- We printPrinted in medical resin from the approved design.
- Cleaned, cured and checkedWashed, post-cured and checked against the approved design.
- At your clinicA same-day courier brings it to your door in Dubai.
Outside Dubai, delivery takes longer. You can always download the approved STL file and print it yourself.
One lab form, checked before the guide leaves us
instant.guide carries your instructions from the clinic to the design lab and back. For guides with Straumann sleeves, a designer cannot return the guide until the protocol for every site on your lab form is saved and passes: sleeve position, drill length, handle cylinder, drill sequence and the driver mark for placement.
What is checked, site by site
- Every site on your lab form has a plan, and no site is added.
- The sleeve system is the one your lab form asks for.
- The sleeve position is one the drill kit can reach for that implant length.
- Drill length and handle cylinder add up to the planned depth.
- The drill sequence follows the bone class, and the driver mark for placement is named.
The design is rarely where depth goes wrong. A drill one length too long, or the wrong handle cylinder, moves the osteotomy floor by millimetres. The protocol sheet names both, with the colour codes and laser bars on your instruments.
Read the guided surgery protocolWhat comes back to you
A surgical guide design
Returned on your case for your approval.
A message thread
Every case has its own thread with our team.
Changes on request
Send the design back with a note. The revised design comes back to the same case.
An STL file
Once you approve, the design is yours to download as an STL file.
The deadline and the refund rule
- 01The clock starts when your scan and CBCT have passed our checks and payment is confirmed.
- 02The deadline is shown on your case while the clock runs.
- 03If the design is not back by the deadline, a refund is raised automatically. You do not need to ask for it.
- 04Your case is still designed after a refund.
Who prepares your design
Designs are prepared by our design team and partner designers and reviewed before release.
You approve every design before you can download it.
File requirements and common questions
Which files do I need?
An intraoral scan as an STL, OBJ or PLY file, up to 200 MB, and a CBCT as DICOM: a .dcm file or a .zip of the slices, up to 600 MB.
What if a file fails the checks?
Swap it for a new file on the upload step. You cannot continue until both files pass, and the clock does not start before then.
When does the clock start, and what if you are late?
The clock starts once your files pass our checks and payment is confirmed. If the design is not back by the deadline shown on your case, a refund is raised automatically and your case is still designed.
Can I ask for changes?
Yes. Send the design back with a note on what to change. The revised design comes back to the same case.
What do I download?
The approved guide design, as an STL file.
Do I need to install anything?
No. You upload, approve and download in your web browser.
Send your next case.
Create an account, upload a scan and a CBCT, and approve the design on your case.
- What a case costs
- Your quote shows the price before you pay. See pricing
- Questions before your first case?
- Send us a message. Email us at ahmed@instant.guide. Once you have an account, every case has a message thread with our team.