# Image Navigation

> Image Navigation is a US-headquartered, Jerusalem-developed medical device company that builds IGI (Image Guided Implantology), a real-time surgical navigation and robotics system for dental implant surgery. It turns a pre-operative CT scan into a live 3D map of a patient's anatomy, tracks the drill with sub-millimeter accuracy, and adds a robotic autostop that shuts the drill off the instant it strays from the planned path - giving dentists the safety of robotics without a rigid robotic arm.

- **Founded:** 1996
- **Headquarters:** New York, USA (R&D in Har Hotzvim Technology Park, Jerusalem, Israel)
- **Founders:** Lawrence Obstfeld (Executive Chairman & developer of the dental navigation technology)
- **Team size:** ~14 employees
- **Products:** IGI (Image Guided Implantology) System, IGI 2.0, TRAX Tracking System, MiniLOCK Connector, DentSim
- **Notable:** Developed one of the earliest computerized navigation systems for dental implant placement, with clinical development dating to 1996., Launched IGI 2.0, described as a hybrid surgical navigation and robotics system with a robotic autostop safety feature., Cleared for sale in Israel (AMAR) and Europe (MDR), with FDA clearance being pursued in the US.

## Products & services

- **IGI (Image Guided Implantology) System** — A real-time surgical navigation and robotics platform for dental implant surgery that overlays a live drill avatar onto a pre-operative CT scan, letting dentists 'see' the position and orientation of the drill inside bone with no added radiation.
- **IGI 2.0** — The current-generation hybrid navigation and robotics system with a robotic autostop that instantly shuts the drill off if it moves outside the planned surgical area, plus improved ergonomics, a smaller footprint and sub-millimeter accuracy.
- **TRAX Tracking System** — Signal-based (not image-processing) tracking with a 20-millisecond refresh rate and no observable onscreen lag, built to capture the rotational motion typical of dental drilling.
- **MiniLOCK Connector** — A proprietary patient-to-tracker connection that attaches chairside to the teeth and relocates within 50 microns, enabling same-day scan, plan and surgery workflows.
- **DentSim** — A computerized dental simulation and training system with a virtual instructor and a large data bank of procedures and course syllabi, used to train dentists before they operate on patients.

## Achievements

- Developed one of the earliest computerized navigation systems for dental implant placement, with clinical development dating to 1996.
- Launched IGI 2.0, described as a hybrid surgical navigation and robotics system with a robotic autostop safety feature.
- Cleared for sale in Israel (AMAR) and Europe (MDR), with FDA clearance being pursued in the US.
- Granted a US patent covering a registration method for visual navigation in dental implant surgery.
- Raised roughly $15M and secured a grant from the Israel Innovation Authority.

## Latest updates

- **2022-09** — Image Navigation launched its newest image-guided implantology technology at the European Academy of Osseointegration (EAO) Congress in Geneva.
- **2021-08** — Company recorded a $15M seed-stage funding round, backed by private investors and an Israel Innovation Authority grant.
- **2019-03** — Announced what it called the world's most advanced image-guided implant dentistry system, introducing the robotic autostop concept.

## Links

- Website: https://image-navigation.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/image-navigation
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/imagenavigation
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/pages/category/Community/Image-Navigation-280933211916911/

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Last updated: 2026-08-05