With the introduction of digitization in the dental world, the dental workflow has undergone vast changes, and has been simplified unimaginably. This includes changes in the dental impression system. The dental impression system helps to obtain the intraoral scans of patients’ oral cavities, and fabricate a 3D model of them. Dentists this way can easily conduct diagnosis accurately, minimise the procedure time, and communicate with the dental laboratory. With the help of a digital impression system, further, dentists can save patients from facing discomfort while holding the gummy materials to give an impression. Moreover, since the scanners can create a 3D model, the dentists are in a position to make a better diagnosis, as the 3D models offer high accuracy, clarity and details about the patient’s dental conditions.
The digital impression system, being non-invasive is safe, and offers solutions to a host of orthodontic and restorative issues. Further, the best thing about using a digital impression system is to obtain a scan immediately, which can be later on sent to the dental laboratory or can be viewed on the side monitor for the dentists to diagnose, and analyse every corner of the patient’s mouth.
Top Benefits of a Digital Impression System
In contrast to the tedious and lengthy process that is followed in the conventional impression-obtaining process, the digital counterpart is simple, non-invasive and accurate. Here are the top benefits of the digital impression system, let’s take a look at the same.
- Eliminates the use of discomfort, and unpleasant gummy materials to procure impressions
- Patients waiting time is minimised
- Patients experience comfortable treatment, and the dental team has less workload
- Produces high-resolution images, and therefore the restorations are also carried out perfectly
- Material inaccuracies and risk of impression errors are eliminated
- Greater patient engagement helps dentists to achieve more revenue and footfall
- Fast treatment process, for instance, the complete mouth scan of the patient can be done within 10 minutes
- It has done away with physical records and storing and maintaining the ceramic models. This is because it helps store the scanned impressions electronically for an indefinite period of time. Further, it also helps to keep the environment paper-free
- It is an extremely eco-friendly solution that helps to conduct flawless treatment without the requirement of alginates and plastic trays.
Types of Digital Impressions
Today, an increasing number of dentists are considering digitizing their workflows. Besides, getting the above-mentioned benefits, digitization helps to improve the patient’s experience considerably and allows him/her to smile. In the market, two types of digital impression solutions are available. First set of scanners, the system captures still images, while the second set of the scanner helps to capture a video. A digital impression system may also be required to be applied with powder for getting accurate, and precise images. These systems further also allow the scanned images to be virtually sent to the laboratory. The information exchange can be conducted in no time and does not even require emailing the impressions. Thus, the speed of the treatment gets accelerated from days to a few hours, and the fear in the patient’s mind also gets reduced. They are not required to sit in the dentist’s chair for a long time for undergoing the treatment.
It may appear to some that a digital impression system is costly but it is a one-time investment, and the benefits that the patients receive are more than what can be received in traditional dentistry. Also, since the patients spend minimum time on the chair, the dentist can attain more patients, and deliver an advanced experience.
Conclusion
As digitization is touching all the spheres of our lives, it is also contributing similarly to the dental world. Many devices are being created to offer futuristic dental solutions, among all these devices, digital dental scanners that are a part of the digital impression system are the best of investions. This is because of the convenience it has provided the field of dentistry, and has helped it to become more productive, efficient, safe and accurate.
