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 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....