Dental impression with intraoral scanner Castel Maggiore, Bologna.
Dentistry, like all medicine, takes advantage of technological advances to make procedures easier and safer. Increasingly “smarter” tools are available to dentists, who can provide their patients with more targeted care with less invasiveness.
The modern equipment found in state-of-the-art dental offices, just like those at Airam Medical Center, allows for more effective treatments, shorter times, and a more pleasant patient experience. Digital microscopes lasers and advanced impression scanning machines are clear examples of how research and technological development bring enormous benefits to dentistry.
We now present the intraoral scanner, one of the latest innovations available to dentists and patients.
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In the digital age, dental medicine has also become hypertechnological and extremely effective. The 3m intraoral scanner is a clear example of technology serving dentists and their patients.
Dental scanning machines, when used by trained professionals who know how to take advantage of them, make it possible to quickly obtain clear virtual representations of a person’s mouth from which prostheses can be made or accurate diagnoses can be made.
The combination of state-of-the-art hardware and software designed specifically for dentistry returns 3-D images of a patient’s teeth within minutes and without causing discomfort or having contraindications.
Through the intraoral scanner, Airam Medical Center’s dentists display on the computer screen a three-dimensional rendering of the patient’s oral cavity and acquire all the data useful for the subsequent fabrication of, for example, aesthetic fixed prostheses.
The so-called digital dental impression is instantaneously transmitted to the technicians who will actually create the dentures. This system is certainly simpler, faster and more accurate than classical dental impressions.
Dentists also use virtual images to test procedures that must be performed without touching the patient and without holding the patient in the chair to examine and reexamine the mouth. This modern way of doing tests is what allows the dental practitioner to design in detail each procedure having an exceptional view of the whole area on which he will have to act.
The dental scanner minimizes errors precisely because it allows testing and planning without any consequences to the person who will undergo the procedure or who will have to use dentures, crowns, bridges, dental splints, and invisible masks.
Digital and traditional dental impression: the differences
To obtain the negative model of the teeth, the patient must hold the material in the mouth for several minutes (up to 6), which needs to harden before it is carefully extracted by the dentist. The procedure does not cause pain but certainly generated discomfort and can make more sensitive patients or children fidget and be forced to sit still in the dentist’s chair while the paste solidifies.
This analog methodology of dentistry is not entirely abandoned, but the most novel practices and dentists who want to improve their services now also rely on the dental model and impression scanner.
Dental artifacts today are virtual thanks to digital tools, computers and CAD/CAM software. Digital dental impressions do not involve inserting pastes or other viscous materials into the oral cavity, just a probe that quickly captures information that is instantly processed to show images on the screen.
The time savings with dental scanners are significant, and not only for the practitioner using it, but also for the patient who can get the prosthesis or mask in fewer days.
This digitized process has fewer steps than classical model making with paste and, later, plaster. This also means greatly reducing the possibility of errors and inaccuracies.
In the near future, technology applied to dentistry will advance further, allowing the scanner to be used for all kinds of diagnoses and tasks, even those for which analog procedures are still used.
Benefits of the dental model and impression scanner
The Airam Medical Center’s dental offices use the CS 3600 intraoral scanner, which gives significant benefits to both dentists and patients. Scanning to obtain the dental digital impression with this tool is more advanced, and the acquisition of images useful for virtually reconstructing the 3D model is:
- Easy;
- Rapid;
- Exact;
- Precise.
This impression scanner makes it possible to plan the treatments to be performed, so that no time is wasted and effective interventions are performed with the least invasiveness.
The CS 3600 is clinically tested and, according to a study comparing it with three other well-known intraoral scanners, is the best from the standpoint of accuracy and precision.
In addition, through continuous scanning, meaning that there are no interruptions during image acquisition, the process is faster and particularly suitable for making models of both dental arches.
The use of the dental impression scanner does not cause any pain or discomfort like that experienced by many during the traditional shaping paste procedure.
Simplifying the steps between the session in the dentist’s office and the application of the denture or mask to realign the teeth also saves time for the patient. Finally, digital models of the arches are stored as simple files, therefore, without taking up physical space in a cabinet and without the danger of damage. If needed, the virtual impression can be taken and reused for a subsequent procedure or to create a second splint.
The intraoral scanner in the state-of-the-art dental office
In conclusion, it can be said that technology today allows those who sit in the dentist’s chair to have experiences that are not at all traumatizing. The intraoral scanner really minimizes patients’ stress and is an efficient ally of the dentist.
A modern dental office must always have the best equipment to ensure quality services, and the scanner has become one of the most advanced tools available to this medical branch.
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