Digital Dentistry

Practices without CBCT are forced to either work without complete imaging or are required to refer patients to a radiology center where they are often scanned using medical grade Cat Scan machines, which emit a tremendous amount of radiation versus CBCT. By using less radiation than conventional CT scans, the CS 9600 system better helps us adhere to the ALARA Principle – or, “As Low As Reasonably Achievable.” We take every precaution to minimize patient exposure to radiation when obtaining the necessary diagnostic images needed for treatment planning.

The state-of-the-art 3D digital scanning capabilities of the Carestream 3600 Intraoral Scanner allows us to create a 3D digital impression of the patient’s mouth. Not only is this scanner more accurate and faster, but it is significantly more comfortable for the patient.

Adding the Intra-oral scanner to our practice has been revolutionary. Messy, annoying impressions with goopy material that sits in your mouth for several minutes is a thing of the past! We can capture the same information digitally in less than a minute. The information is more accurate, and we have a digital record of your mouth.

We use the Digital images for several things - we can send to a laboratory or your general dentist, and we can have things like retainers made digitally. The most useful benefit is that we can digitally combine the information from the into-oral scanner with the digital information we get from our Cone Beam Scanner (CBCT). Once we combine the information, we then utilize sophisticated software to plan all implant cases digitally. We can collaborate with the restorative and laboratory team, and we can have surgical guides fabricated with tremendous accuracy.