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A slim pen-shaped intraoral scanner balanced across a single fingertip against a dark background

28 Sep The Weight of the Instrument: The Featherweight Scanner and the Craft of a Scan the Patient Barely Notices

Posted at 11:38h in Dental Technology by Raymond 0 Comments

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For a decade the conversation about intraoral scanners was all about accuracy. A quieter revolution is now underway in the hand: scanners light enough to forget. When a wand weighs about as much as a fountain pen, the scan stops being an ordeal and becomes...

A digital 3D mesh of a dental arch presented as framed sculpture on a gallery wall

05 Feb Trueness and Precision: What Really Governs the Accuracy of an Intraoral Scan

Posted at 10:12h in Dental Imaging by Raymond 0 Comments

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On the monitor a digital impression is seductive: clean, colour, rotatable, apparently perfect. But a scan that looks perfect and a scan that is accurate are not the same claim, and the gap between them is where restorations quietly fail....