General & preventive
Digital Intraoral Scanning
A small camera traces your teeth and builds them on screen as you watch. No trays of putty, no gagging, and 3Shape software to design what comes next.
- The software we design in
- 3Shape
- Nothing to bite into
- No putty
- Your scan, the same visit
- On screen
Instead of an impression
The old way was a tray of setting putty held in the mouth for several minutes — unpleasant at best, and impossible for anyone with a strong gag reflex.
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The scanner replaces it with a wand the size of an electric toothbrush that is simply passed over the teeth.
3Shape, and what it is for
The scan lands in 3Shape, which is where crowns, bridges, veneers, aligner sequences and implant plans are actually designed.
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Because the model is digital it goes to the laboratory instantly rather than in a courier bag, and the file is kept — so a remake years later starts from the original rather than from a second appointment.
Seeing your own mouth
The model appears on the screen beside the chair while you are still in it, at a size nobody can see in a mirror.
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It is the single most useful thing we have for explaining a cracked cusp or a receding margin, because you are looking at the same picture we are.
The eco part
No single-use plastic trays, no impression material setting in a bin, and no physical models posted back and forth.
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It is one of the changes that cut the most waste out of the practice while also being the more pleasant appointment.
