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. 2023 Aug 2;27(9):5317–5329. doi: 10.1007/s00784-023-05152-6

Table 5.

In vivo studies of the prognosis of guided endodontic microsurgery

Guided methods Author(year) Article type Sample size/case number DN system /SN printer Bur Follow-up time (months) Evaluation method Radiological outcome Success rate (%)
Type Diameter (mm) Speed (rpm)
DN Chen et al. (2022, Ours) [21] Original articles 28 patients (40 teeth) DHC-ENDO1 (DCARER Medical Technology) Trephine (818–102, Changsha Tiantian Dental Equipment Co., Ltd, China) 4 1200 12–20 PA and CBCT Showed in Table 3

PA: 95%

CBCT: 94.3%

Lu et al. (2022) [38] Case report 1 X-guide (X-Nav Technologies) \ 5.5 \ 5 PA Significant bone healing \
Fu et al. (2022) [39] Case reports 3 DHC-ENDO1 (DCARER Medical Technology) Trephine (818–102, Changsha Tiantian Dental Equipment Co., Ltd, China) 4 1200 3–9 PA Increased bone density \
Gambarini et al. (2019) [40] Case report 1 Navident (ClaroNav) Round diamond bur (#801-018C, SS White, USA) 3 \ 6 PA Complete healing \
SN Chaves et al. (2022) [41] Case report 1 MoonRay S100 (SprintRay Inc.) Ultrasonic surgical tips (Piezotome; Acteon, France) \ \ 12 CBCT Bone healing \
Buniag et al. (2021) [20] Original articles 23 patients (24 teeth) Objet260 Connex3 (Stratasys Ltd.) \ 5 or less 900–1000 12–28 PA

Complete healing, 20

Reductive healing, 2

Failures, 2

91.7%
Benjamin et al. (2020) [42] Case series 3 Formlabs 2 (Formlabs Inc.) Trephine (Zimmer Biomet 3i, USA) 4 1000 \ \ \ \
Kim et al. (2020) [43] Case report 1 Object EDEN260V (Stratasys Ltd.) Piezoelectric saws \ \ 12 PA Signs of healing \
Popowicz et al. (2019) [44] Case reports 2 Prusa i3 MK2S (Prusa Research s.r.o) Trephine (No227A.204.040; Komet, Germany) 3 1000 7–8 CBCT Complete 3D healing \
Giacomino et al. (2018) [45] Case reports 3 Objet260 Connex3 (Stratasys Ltd.) Trephine (Biomet 3i, LLC, USA) 5 or 6 1200 1–3 \ \ \
Antal et al. (2018) [46] Case series 11 patients (14 roots) ProJet MD 3510 (3D system Corporation) Trephine (Hager & Meisinger, Germany) 4.21 \ 6 \ \ \
Ye et al. (2018) [47] Case report 1 3510SD (3D system Corporation) Trephine (Meisinger, Germany) 4 \ 12 PA No periapical radiolucency \
Ahn et al. (2018) [48] Case report 1 Object EDEN260V (Stratasys Ltd.) Anchor drill 1.5 \ \ \ \ \
Strbac et al. (2017) [49] Case report 1 Objet350 Connex 3 (Stratasys Ltd.) Piezoelectric saw (Piezomed, W&H Dentalwerk GmbH, Austria) \ \ 12 CBCT Complete healing \
Liu et al. (2014) [50] Case report 1 Objet Connex 500 (Stratasys Ltd.) \ \ \ \ \ \ \

DN dynamic navigation, SN static navigation, PA periapical radiography, CBCT cone-beam computed tomography; \, not mentioned