22 NEWS Dental Tribune Middle East & Africa Edition | 6/2020

Benefits of a fully integrated

digital workflow – clinical focus
How digital impressions will help you rebuild: As we all try to find ways to bounce back
from COVID-19, could digital dental impressions be just the boost your practice needs?

By Dentsply Sirona

As dental professionals across the country Key, amongst the long list of priorities in this More efficient, more hygienic, more around the mouth, capturing outstanding
plan a tentative path out of lockdown, many new COVID-19 era, is keeping chair time to a comfortable quality, digital scans in less time than it would
are looking for new ways to deliver dental care. minimum, so anything that achieves this and Digital impressions can be taken with a Prime- take to prepare for and take a traditional im-
New guidelines have forced practices to oper- makes procedures more efficient, is extremely scan intraoral scanner in a matter of seconds. pression.
ate in a different way, but forward-thinking valuable. Digital impressions do both, and also Simply use the sleek scanner wand, which
dentists are seeing these adjustments as an op- deliver a substantial amount of business-build- comes with a choice of removable sleeves (au- The digital impression is saved as a high defini-
portunity to bring about change for the better. ing potential. So, what’s not to like? toclave, wipe-down and single-use), to sweep tion, 3D image within the CAD/CAM software,
whilst the patient is in the chair for consider-
ably less time than for conventional impres-
AD sions, and the whole experience is far more
comfortable.

Access all areas

Once captured, digital impressions open up ac-
cess to a range of efficient, income-generating
intelligent solutions workflows that are much easier to achieve than
using traditional methods.

For instance, you can offer patients clear align-

er treatment through digitally enabled services
such as SureSmile Aligner treatment. Clear
The advantage of aligner treatments such as this have soared in
popularity recently and offering this service
will help keep your patients loyal and ensure
you are responding positively to patients’ de-
mands.
with Interchangeable Articulators
Add a chairside milling unit to your workflow
and you have opened the door to a whole
new world of digital design and manufacture.
Dentsply Sirona’s CEREC single visit restorative
workflow creates fast, efficient single-tooth
restorations, reducing the risk of cross-contam-

Accurate
ination and giving patients the safest, most
comfortable experience possible, all achieved
in a single visit. Additionally, it opens up new
revenue streams, whilst containing costs with-

t r a n s f e r
in the practice.

Labs get digital

Even if you don’t want to move straight into
a full digital workflow in your practice, digital
impressions can still open up opportunities
with other providers; one of the most impor-
tant being your dental laboratory. More and
more labs are now adopting digital processes
and are able to receive digital impressions from
dentists. The digital technologies also improve
communication between clinician and techni-
cian, which is achieved via instant, efficient and
secure software.

In a pre-COVID world, digital impressions were

Enable interchangeability of stone models between slowly gaining in popularity. Now, with the
articulators of the same brand (when calibrated) providing need to reduce patients’ time in practice and
DENTIST LAB.
convenience in handling and clinical communication x with infection control stakes much higher, in-
laboratory and digital equipment. traoral scanners are becoming an essential tool
for dentists who want to not only survive, but
Many of the articulators on the market are not calibrated. In this also thrive in the new world of dentistry. And
way, stone models mounted on a given SAA cannot be what’s even more exciting is the range of op-
portunities that are at your command once
transferred to another SAA with guaranteed accuracy, even
you’ve made that first step.
though they are from the same brand. Bio-Art developed a
standardization kit consisting of tools used to calibrate the

workflow
articulators (models A7Fix and A7Plus). Using this resource is
essential for the professional who has more than one
articulator, as well as for use between dentists and dental
technicians without the need to keep the models always in the
same articulator. The calibration allows the interchanging of the
models previously mounted on calibrated articulator plates.

The gauging device (calibration column) must be used Find out more by
periodically to check the accuracy between the articulators. scanning the QR code.

For more information about the full Dentsply Sirona

portfolio, please contact your local representative.

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