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Impressions Going Digital?

Monday, June 11, 2007

It appears as though in the not to distant future that patient comfort will reach a new level. The need for stuffing a patients mouth full of bad tasting, lousy smelling and practically gagging impression material is at an end.

Impressions will be taken with a digital camera and emailed to the laboratory. Cadent, a company out of Carlstadt, New Jersey, has created iTero! iTero takes a series of digital scans that creates a 3-D virtual model of the involved teeth. The models are then sent to a CAD-CAM milling machine to expedite the fabrication of the restoration.

The digital impression will replace a conventional impression similarly as digital x-rays have replaced film. It is our hope that this technology, when it has been readily tested, will create a scenario to increase accuracy, reduce chair time and create a superior experiences for our clients.

We look forward in the future to impressions taken digitally being the standard of care!

Kenneth A. Mogell, D.M.D.