An intraoral scanner is an optical instrument pointed at the wettest surface in medicine. A film of saliva, a bead of blood at the margin, a breath of fog on the tip — each is invisible on the monitor and quietly fatal to the fit....
An intraoral scanner is an optical instrument pointed at the wettest surface in medicine. A film of saliva, a bead of blood at the margin, a breath of fog on the tip — each is invisible on the monitor and quietly fatal to the fit....
For a century, diagnosing decay in a small child's mouth has meant one thing: a clinician, a mirror, a light, and a cooperative patient sitting still long enough to be examined. A 2025 Australian study quietly proposed an alternative. Capture a colour three-dimensional scan of...
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....
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....