Saturday, April 19, 2008

The Dental Industry Moving to Digital by Leaps and Bounds

With the introduction of new products offering Oral Scanners (Digital Impressions), the race for a "plaster-free" Digital Dental Platform has moved from the future to... now.
Components moving to be totally digital in the Dental Industry:
- Appointments, Accounting, etc. (already a few years totally computerized)
- CT / X-ray (already distributed mainly via CD from the CT Lab - or - local X-ray digital equipment instead of film)
- Volumetric (3D) Visualizations (already distributed from the CT Labs)
- 3D Implant Planning and Surgery Stents (SimPlant, NobelGuide, iDent, ILS, OsseoView, etc. - With SimPlant as number one in all reviews complimented with the Navigator System from BIOMET3i)
- Digital Impressions and Scanning (3M COS, iTero, D4DTech, etc. - No more trays and putty impressions - Samples)
- Digital Restorations Design (CAD - Nobel, Degudent, D4D, BIOMET3i, etc.)
- Computerized Aided Manufacturing (CAM - Models, crowns, bridges, stents, etc. - By stereolithography, sintering, milling, etc. - Nobel, Degudent, BIOMET3i, etc.)

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