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Running head: ENTERING THE DIGITAL AGE: DIGITAL IMPRESSIONS
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Entering the Digital Age: Digital Impressions
Glendy Gallardo
Bellingham Technical College
ENTERING THE DIGITAL AGE: DIGITAL IMPRESSIONS
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Abstract
This paper explores the advantages and disadvantages of the iTero Intraoral Scanner and its
significant relationship to dental clinics. Several studies will demonstrate the work that still
needs to be done to prove that elastomeric impressions are not as accurate and precise as the
STLs and its DIs. This paper examines several reviews on how beneficial it can be to implement
the scanner to dental clinics in order to create more opportunities for patient satisfaction and
clinical success (Olson, 2015). However, with the difficult learning curve, it will show how
dentists are still apprehensive to purchase these machines.
Keywords: Standard Tessellation Language, Digital Images
ENTERING THE DIGITAL AGE: DIGITAL IMPRESSIONS
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Entering the Digital Age: Scanning Impressions
Technological Advances
It has come as no surprise that technology and science have made incredible advances to
everyday life. Likewise, advances have worked their way into dental clinics. During the 1980’s,
the first digital scanner was introduced (Nayar and Mahadevan, 2015). Over the past couple of
years, more dental clinics have started implementing intraoral digital scanning as another way to