The Application Of Digital Technology

Today, it is possible for orthodontist to take a highly accurate, digital 3D image of the inside of a patient’s mouth. Gone are the days of goop and gagging that are associated with conventional impressions. The iTero Scanner creates almost flawless images of the patient’s teeth and gum tissues the first time so aligners, retainers, appliances and restorations can be more accurate and fit better.

Technology is a very growing area and one cannot be successful if they are not up on the latest. In the dental field, most dental offices are now “digital and paperless”. It will be my responsibility to make sure that I teach my students how to function in a digital environment. In order to do this, I must be proficient in this area. If I will be successful, I must know what new procedures and technology is being used in the dental field. “Dental technologies have been evolving continually, helping to transform the field of dentistry. New technologies are developed with a focus on creating products and developing techniques that can be used by dentists to help prevent, diagnose and/or treat dental conditions and diseases

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Molly Koopman, Expanded Function Dental Assisting Program, Miami Jacobs Career College, Springboro, OH 45066

The overhead screens that the dentists at Legacy Dental Arts use serve a few different purposes, including:

However, advances in technology have changed the pace of the realignment process to lead to greater efficiency than ever before. Meanwhile, patients will love the benefits of a picture-perfect smile. How does technology work? Propel examines the entire mouth of patients, and when looking for a treatment plan, it stimulates the bone structure that surrounds the teeth. Adopting this approach, the orthodontist will ensure the teeth have been positioned correctly, and he or she will

Imagine being able to offer your patients complete protection against any unexpected dental problems that arise in the 12 months after their annual checkups or dental repairs or restorative procedures.

Thanks to CEREC technology, you only need a single visit to your dentist to complete the restoration. It takes only

While interning at the dental office I was permitted to participate in many operations that included extractions, crowns, crown preps, composites and sealants. Each operation required a different setup and rudimentary

Lab stage: technician will mount models on the articulator (mechanism that simulating jaw movements) and use wax rims as a base to start with denture. Wax is carved with a hot wax knife and Le Cron carver. The correct teeth are selected and placed in position from the information received from the dentist. The model ready to be send to dental surgery look like future denture, but is made of wax with resin teeth embedded in wax.

Throughout the years, we have updates our systems and methods several times. We have gone from being a lab that produces 100% full-contour and layered metal crowns to a lab that produces 95% full-contour and layered porcelain crowns (Zirconia and e-Max). We are proud to acknowledge are awareness of the changes in our industry and known when to go with the changes and when not to. When the possibility of digital dentistry came around we didn’t hesitate and made the leap to become a digital lab. With this leap of faith, we were able to provide our dentists with new materials and more options and this has been one of the key reasons we have been able to keep close relationships with our current doctors for about 27 years.

Our office is equipped with high-tech technology, including the newest in CT scan, 3-D radiology, combined with the computer program that allows our surgeons to carry out the virtual oral surgery on a 3-D patient illustration before the actual surgery. This shows the way to lesser surgical time, decreased soreness and swelling, and considerably a more predictable surgical result.

CAD/CAM technology an innovation in the production of dental prosthesis. CAD/CAM is a technological advancement in dentistry, the production of dental prosthesis can be done at the dental office instead of dental laboratories. Going to get a restoration for example a crown can be a long process which requires a pair of visits to the dental office. The process may be going to get the tooth prepared, impression, and placing of the temporary crown. The second visit requires cementing the crown and adjusting the bite. In contrast the CAD/CAM technology can provide a quicker method. Today you can visit a dental office that has a CAD/CAM Cerec machine to get your restoration fabricated and placed in one single day. This advancement in dental technology

With the equipment that we have today and with the digital radiography images we are decreasing exposure by 80% in patients. Believe it or not, your appointment can be shorter to the dentist with the advances in the technology. With the use of digital radiology, the x-ray is developed in minutes, rather than using the traditional x-rays to where you have to wait till the images are developed. Also, with digital you are helping the environment, due to the fact that there are no chemicals, or film that needs to be developed or used they go straight to the computer in an image.

CEREC, an acronym for Chairside Economical Restoration of Esthetic Ceramics or CEramic REConstruction, is one of the modern dentistry techniques that utilize CAD/CAM technologies. Using the computer-assisted technologies, dentists

3D Printing is a unique kind of printing system, which takes a 3D image file and creates a physical 3D image. As I mentioned before 3D files are generated from what is called a .stl file, which is a compressed triangular meshed surface. “These .stl files were originally intended for a rapid prototyping process called Stereolithography, and in the beginning were generated by CAD programs; however, because MRI and CT’s are surface scans, they too can generate a .stl file. These .stl files have become a world standard for exchanging 3D mesh type objects between programs” (McNeel, Sep. 2015, par. 3). Since MRI’s and CT’s can be scanned and converted into stl files it has paved the way into many different aspects of the medical and dental industry for 3D printing. When I say the medical and dental industry I am talking about many different avenues within those industries.