If your practice has not made the leap into digital dentistry, then a great place to start is with an intraoral scanner.
Not only do these dental scanners have a wide range of clinical use cases and applications, but they offer a number of other benefits to all sorts of dental professionals as well as their patients and clinics.
Patient Safety
Unlike other types of digital dental X-ray systems, including panorex, ceph, and dental CBCT systems, intraoral scanners use visible light (or in some cases infrared light) to capture scans of the patient’s teeth and surface anatomy. They do not use ionizing radiation, which means there is no radiation dose, helping practitioners more effectively adhere to the ALARA principle.
Patient Comfort
Unlike taking a conventional dental impression with physical impressioning media, intraoral scanners are much less invasive and most patients find the scans far less uncomfortable. There’s also less chair time involved for the patient, which further improves comfort.
Efficient Workflows
Many intraoral scanners are very fast; some can capture a full-arch scan in less than a minute. Moreover, they capture patient scans in much greater detail, and with higher accuracy, than physical impressions do.
This can potentially enable greater practice efficiency, making it possible for you to see and form treatment plans for more patients more efficiently, with faster turnaround.
Potential Cost Savings
Not only are intraoral scanners faster, potentially enabling you to see more patients, but notwithstanding their upfront cost, there won’t be a need to purchase impression media, which means that over time they may actually incur savings, rather than an expense. It’s also more affordable to share the files (free) since you won’t need to ship any physical impressions to or from the lab.
Faster File Sharing, No Need for Physical Storage Space
Intraoral scanners capture digital image scan files that can be easily stored and shared, speeding up communications with the lab, and effectively eliminating store space associated with cataloging physical impressions.
Highly Detailed Intraoral Images
Lastly, modern intraoral scanners can capture the patient’s dentition and surface anatomy in incredibly accurate detail, and are not prone to the potential faults of physical impressions. Also, some advanced models, like the iTero Element 5D intraoral scanner, feature NIRI technology that actually lets the scanner see below the surface of the tooth, a feature which is highly useful for the detection of interproximal caries.
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