Orthodontic and dental implant software in one plan.
Full-mouth rehab used to need two software ecosystems. Orthodontic and dental implant software plan the movement and the placement on the same anatomy.
The cases that demand the most clinical reasoning often sit on the boundary between specialties. They're not pure ortho and they're not pure implant — they're both, in sequence, on the same patient.
- An adult patient with crowded anterior teeth and a missing premolar. The implant can't land in a usable position until the arch is aligned, so the ortho has to happen first — but the ortho target depends on where the implant will eventually go.
- A patient with a collapsed bite. The bite needs to be re-opened with aligners before the prosthetic restoration begins, but the prosthetic plan dictates how much opening is needed.
- A full-mouth rehab where the eventual occlusal scheme drives the tooth-position targets that drive the orthodontic staging that drives when each implant lands.
Until now, these cases lived in two software ecosystems. The orthodontist's plan was in one tool. The surgeon's plan was in another. The lab coordinated by reading notes, screenshots, and the occasional shared phone call. Coordinate systems drifted. Tooth positions on day one of the case weren't the same as tooth positions on day six months, and the implant plan that looked right at day one wasn't the implant plan the case actually needed.
Orthodontic software and dental implant software on the same anatomy
The same patient, the same CBCT, the same intraoral scans, the same registered face — and two specialty workspaces that share that anatomy:
- OrthoPlus, the orthodontic software, for the orthodontic plan. Set the final tooth positions; stage the movement; place attachments; plan the IPR strategy. Articulate through the staging to verify occlusion.
- Implant Master, the dental implant software, for the implant plan. Position fixtures against the bone and the post-ortho tooth positions. Plan the surgical guide.
The orthodontist isn't planning against today's tooth positions if the case will move them. The surgeon isn't planning against today's tooth positions if the case will move them. Both specialties plan against the post-ortho tooth positions — because that's the anatomy the implant will actually land in.
What this changes clinically
- Orthodontists see the implant context. The eventual restoration is in the workspace as a planning constraint. Tooth-movement targets stop being "align this arch" and become "create the gap this implant needs" or "preserve the room this restoration will sit in."
- Surgeons see the orthodontic context. The implant lands against the post-ortho anatomy, not the pre-ortho one. Pre-prosthetic implants in the wrong position are a category of case that simply doesn't happen here.
- Patient conversations cover the full plan. The doctor walks the patient through the multi-phase treatment in one 3D view — ortho, then implant, then prosthetic — instead of describing the next phase only after finishing the current one.
- Multi-disciplinary referrals work better. When the orthodontist refers a patient to the implant surgeon, the implant surgeon opens the same case in the same software and sees what the orthodontist already planned. No "let me take a look and get back to you."
What this changes for labs
- Cross-specialty cases stop being a coordination headache. The lab is running one project that carries both plans, not two parallel projects that need to be reconciled by hand.
- Designers in the ortho lane and the implant lane look at the same case. They see each other's plans, not just their own piece.
- Fewer "we updated the ortho plan, please regenerate the implant plan" rounds. A revision to one is a revision the other sees.
- Better QA across specialties. A senior reviewer can verify that the implant plan is consistent with the ortho plan in one view, rather than cross-referencing two software exports.
The project format ties it together
Both OrthoPlus and Implant Master save into a project format that carries the registered CBCT, the intraoral scans, and the per-workspace plans together. The same project is the orthodontist's project and the surgeon's project. When the case is shared via a Cympha case (or the free Planner viewer), what travels is the full multi-specialty plan — not a workspace-specific slice of it.
Try it on a real case
If you have a multi-specialty case in your queue right now — full-mouth rehab, ortho-first-then-implant, collapsed-bite restoration — book a walkthrough and we'll show you the same anatomy planned from both workspaces. Open the design-software overview at cympha.com/design-software. Leave your email below for the walkthrough invitation.
Part of Dental Case Lifecycle Management. Cympha runs every dental case as one tracked record — intake to outcome, across every doctor, lab, and supplier — instead of a dozen disconnected tools. What is DCLM? →