A Real Revolution?

I often hear these questions:
- Is this a real Revolution all the issues around CT Guidance?
- Aren't you exagerating a little bit in order to promote just a new model of dental kits?

Let's see. This will happen to you the moment you will start using 3D Guidance Technologies (as SimPlant, The Navigator System, other 3D technologies):

- Use of your PC not just for emails and browsing the Internet (but a "real" use for your computer power).
- Detailed planning of all dental procedures before the treatment (press here for the advantages).
- Communication between surgeon, perio, prosthetic, lab, etc. experts via electronic media.
- The main medical-legal question will now be: Did you do everything possible to foresee and avoid possible problems? (as CT; planning using a dental simulation software, etc.).
- Sending plaster models via the Internet as 3D files.
- Dental planning software communicating directly with CAD/CAM equipment in the dental lab.
- 3D scanning claster models, bite impressions or directly 3D scanning the patient mouth (press here for samples).
- 3D "printing" or direct fabrication of models, stents, restorations, prosthesis, bars, etc. (press here for samples).
- Professional lectures explaining the procedures using 3D visuals (no more boring presentations).
- Explaining the possibilities to the patients in front of a PC display.

OK, now you see. We are talking about a Real Revolution in Dental Therapy, a whole new platform putting together until now individual technical advances; very similar to what happened to engineers and architects with CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Development / Computer Aided Manufacturing) a few years ago.