Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, northwest China - Sept 16, 2017
1. Various of ongoing operation
2. Drill
3. Various of ongoing operation
4. Doctor installing drill
5. Various of ongoing operation
6. Screen showing 3D image of operation
7. Doctor operating computer
8. Screen showing 3D image of operation
9. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhao Yimin, professor in Fourth Military Medical University (starting with shot 8, partially overlaid with shot 10-11, ending with shot 12):
"Firstly, the patient needs to take a CT (computed tomography) scan to acquire all the data of the patient's skull and jaw, and then the data are stored through a special marking system so that the robot arm can identify the corresponding location precisely in the non-open space and finish the dental implant surgery."
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10. Screen showing 3D image of operation
11. Ongoing operation
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12. Ongoing operation
13. Various of doctor checking patient's mouth
14. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhao Yimin, professor in Fourth Military Medical University (starting with shot 13 ):
"The operation ran very smoothly. The biggest advantage of the robot is high precision with a error of 0.2 to 0.3 millimeters, which is much more precise than manual operation."
15. Doctor checking implanted denture
16. Ongoing operation

World first autonomous dental implant robot was put into use in an operation on Saturday in Xi'an City, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

The robot was completely developed by China and adopted the ingenious mechanical space fusion positioning method, which can not only improve the accuracy of operation but integrate with 3D printing technology to achieve immediate repair of denture.

Before operation, patient needs to take a CT (computed tomography) scan to acquire all the data of the patient's skull and jaw, and then the data are stored through a special marking system, so that the robot arm can identify the corresponding location precisely in the non-open space and finish the dental implant surgery.

During the operation, the robot arm got into the patient's mouth following the pre-set motion path. After locating the exact position absent of tooth, the robot arm installed the implant into the cavity.

It took the robot less than an hour to install two implants into the patient's cavities.

"The operation ran very smoothly. The biggest advantage of the robot is high precision with a error of 0.2 to 0.3 millimeters, which is much more precise than manual operation," said Zhao Yimin, professor in the Fourth Military Medical University.