How to get started?

Simplant Planning Service is accessible through PC, Apple, iPad and iPhone. The major internet browsers are supported (Internet Explorer 11, Firefox, Chrome and Safari).

When all case data are available to Dentsply Sirona, the planning proposal will be ready for review in the next 3 working days. Each planning proposal and guide design has to be reviewed and can be modified in Simplant Editor before the surgical guide is manufactured at Dentsply Sirona.

After approval of a Simplant plan, the Simplant Guide is manufactured and shipped in 48 hours. When you made changes to the Simplant plan, Dentsply Sirona will first verify that the Simplant Guide design is still possible for the changed Simplant plan. If the Simplant Guide design is no longer possible, Dentsply Sirona creates a revised planning proposal for which Guide design is possible again. This revised proposal is posted to your Simplant account for a final review and approval. This situation occurs for example when an implant is planned too close to a neighboring tooth. The revised plan should be reviewed and can be modified again by the clinician if needed. The Simplant Guide is then manufactured and shipped 48 hours after approval of the revised Simplant plan. In rare situations, it may occur that Simplant Guide design is not possible again after receiving the second revised plan. A Dentsply Sirona representative will then contact the customer to find a solution together with the clinician.

When implants are requested at locations with low bone volume, the (CB)CT scan images will be posted to your Simplant account for review. Review the 2D images with Simplant Editor and make measurements to evaluate the bone width and height. After review, you can either:

1. Cancel the case. No case cost will be invoiced.

   Choose this option if there is not enough bone to proceed with the case in a guided surgery manner.

2. Proceed the case

   Choose this option if you want to proceed with the case in a guided surgery manner. Only after your confirmation to proceed, Dentsply Sirona will generate the 3D images of the case with planning proposal and guide design.

A case can be cancelled by contacting Simplant Technical support. If the case is cancelled after an implant planning was made, a case cost will be invoiced.

If there is no sufficient bone to place implants the case can be cancelled without extra cost.

The minimum system requirements for running Simplant Editor:

• Operating system:

  • Windows 7 Home/Professional SP1 32 bit
  • Windows 8.1 Home/Professional
  • Mac OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”

• Graphics card: Recent (2012 or better) Graphics card with OpenGL 3.1 support and 512 MB of video memory

• Processor: CPU Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon II with 2 or more CPU Cores

• Main memory: At least 4 GB of RAM

• Hard disk: At least 2 GB of  free hard disk space 

• Internet-connection

• Diagnostic monitor: at least 1440x900 pixels

The recommended system requirements for running Simplant Editor:

• Operating system:

  • Windows 7 Home/Professional 64 bit SP1
  • Windows 10 Home/Professional 64 bit
  • Mac OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”

• Graphics card: Recent (2012 or better) discrete NVIDIA graphics card with recent OpenGL 3.1 drivers and 1GB or above of video memory

• Processor: CPU Intel® Core i5 (or AMD FX CPUs Windows) or above with 4 or more CPU Cores

• Main memory: At least 4 GB of RAM or above.

• Hard disk: At least 4 GB of free hard disk space.

• Internet connection

• Diagnostic monitor: at least 1440x900 pixels

• Navigate to the educational page on Simplant: https://www.orderdigitalsolutions.com/Help?activePage=SimplantHelp

• Click the link ‘Install Simplant Editor’

• Run the Simplant Editor setup file.

• Read the license agreement and select I agree with the terms and conditions. Click on the Install button to start the installation.

• Wait until the progress bar is finished. You will be asked to allow the program to make changes to your computer. Click ‘yes’.

• Installation is complete. The shortcut of Simplant Editor is created on the desktop and in the Start Menu.

• Start Simplant Editor by double clicking the desktop icon

• In the menu bar, click Help > About

• Check the version number:

• Go to Control Panel > Programs and Features

• Select Simplant Editor in the list and click ‘uninstall’

• In the Simplant Editor Setup dialog click ‘uninstall’

Yes, you can change an implant in the planning proposal to another implant from the same product line.

• Click ‘change implant’ in the Implants list on the task bar at the right.

• Select the implant you want to switch to.

Switching to an implant from a different product line or implant brand is not possible. Please contact Simplant Technical support to do so.