The emergence of digital technology has vastly impacted our lives and changed it in unprecedented ways. Its advanced approach, the convenience of use, and efficiency has elevated the standard of treatment and delivered enhanced customer experience. In similar ways, technology has improved the health sector vastly and empowered dentists to offer fast diagnosis, great patient experience and accurate diagnosis. Digital dentistry entails the smooth management of patients’ records, and facilitates quick and efficient diagnosis with the help of computer-aided technology like 3D dental scanners. Other digital technology tools are digital x-rays, 3D cone beam scanners, implant placement and intraoral scanners.
How digital dentistry has proven useful?
Every technology is created with the intention of making things convenient, effective and cheaper. Previously, the tedious manual process of treatment required patients to commit a lot of their time for treatment and make frequent visits to the clinic. However, digital dentistry has accelerated the process and streamlined the workflow of the dentists and ensured minimum waiting time for the patient. Here are the advantages of embracing digital technology.
Higher accuracy
Successful treatments are the results of precise diagnosis and treatment. Digital tools like 3D dental scanners offer dentists to get a 360-degree view of the oral cavity of their patients, which enables dentists to plan suitable treatment that a particular patient requires. To give an example of the enhanced accuracy, today using the digital smile designing tools the patients can understand how after the restorative, cosmetic and orthodontic process how they will look. Moreover, these digital tools have set new standards in terms of precision, flawless treatments.
Less time consumption
With the help of digital tools like intraoral scanners,digital scans can quickly get generated on the screen of the computer and thus, help to speed up the treatment process. The dentists can virtually send the digital format of the images to the laboratories, specialists and even the insurance provider for quick processing. Moreover, digital dentistry eliminates the dependence on physical moulds and the use of alginates as digital impressions are easier to obtain.
Quick and fast treatment
It is a well-known fact that when the diagnosis of ailment is conducted quickly and with the best accuracy it helps to improve the chance of successful treatment greatly. Hence, when dentists use digital x-ray devices and intraoral scanners, they are empowered to quickly detect the dental aliments and even can properly understand where the cavities are situated. Early detection of ailments not only stops issues to become more serious but also, saves the patients from painful and expensive treatments.
Proper record management
The manual ways of storing records are not only a laborious task, but are prone to errors as well. Using digital technology, it has become easy to manage the record of the patients. Moreover, digital technology enables dentists to refer to the past treatments of a patient and further determine the procedure of the patient’s treatment accurately. As the process can be easily stored on the cloud, it helps with easy accessibility and better security and reduces storage expenses considerably.
Conclusion
With the help of advanced digital tools, the future of dentistry looks very promising. Digital tools like intraoral scanners allow accurate diagnosis, aids in creating perfect crowns and aligners and more. Apart from these benefits, the digital tools also help in boosting relationship between the patients and dentists. As technology continues to evolve, dentistry is also improving to ensure better quality diagnosis and speed of treatment.
