A new intraoral scanner weighs 106 grams and runs down a single cable, with no power box on the cart. Beneath the ergonomics lies a quieter story about cost, access, and who in the profession now gets to make a three-dimensional record of the mouth....
When a worn, collapsed bite is rebuilt, the jaw is opened by millimeters that ripple outward into the whole lower face. For decades, clinicians could plan that change precisely but could only judge the result by eye. A new clinical report shows facial stereophotogrammetry —...
At 106 grams, SHINING 3D's new Aoralscan Elf is among the lightest intraoral scanners ever sold, and a wave of 2026 entrants — including a newly funded South Korean challenger — is pushing weight, balance, and AI accuracy to the center of the design. A...
A digital impression looks instantaneous, but it is assembled - thousands of small optical frames, each a shard of surface, registered into one continuous mesh. Understanding how the scanner sees explains everything about where it struggles....
One instrument captures the surface and refuses to look beneath it. The other looks straight through and forgets the surface exists. For decades the clinician fused them in the mind. Now the software does it - and the craft is changing....
The intraoral scanner began life as a way to replace the impression tray. A wave of AI integration — from Medit and Overjet’s AuraVue to a new generation of scanners — is quietly turning it into a diagnostic instrument, and a new kind of portrait....