Currently, technology has been developed for various cases requiring dental impressions using an Intraoral Scanner combined with CAD/CAM, which does not cause pain or discomfort and takes a short time. It helps produce detailed and high-quality work, improving the quality of dental impressions and saving treatment time for both dentists and patients effectively.
How Digital Dental Impressions with Intraoral Scanner and CAD/CAM Are Better
- Instead of traditional dental impressions, which involve taking molds of the mouth, digital imaging is done using an Intraoral Digital Scanner.
- Instead of dental technicians manually shaping wax, the design and finishing are done using Computer-Aided Design controlled by the dentist.
- Instead of casting wax models that may have errors such as pores in the workpiece, Milling Computer-Aided Machinery is used to produce the workpiece on the same day.
Procedures That Require Dental Impressions
- Crowns that require impressions of one or multiple teeth.
- Implants that require precise impressions with clear detail at every point.
- Clear aligners like Invisalign that require impressions of the entire mouth without any air bubbles.
The process of dental impressions using Intraoral Scanner and CAD/CAM allows patients receiving dental treatment to wait and take their workpieces home immediately, instead of waiting 5–7 days for production. Even in the case of clear aligners like Invisalign, which previously required sending dental impressions to overseas labs for adjustment, correction, planning, and production taking about 2 weeks, using an Intraoral Scanner instead of traditional impressions sends the data directly to overseas labs. This enables quick adjustment, correction, planning, and production within a few days, significantly reducing the waiting time for patients.
