Traditional Dentistry vs. Digital dentistry

Dental lab scanner

1. Traditional Dentistry

At present, most of the production methods of dental prosthesis in the world are the continuation of the traditional manual manufacturing method. First, the doctor prepares the restored patient’s tooth, and then uses the impression material to extract the negative model and reproduce the plaster model. Then professional technicians complete complex processes such as applying gap agent, cutting, and engraving wax-up. After embedding and casting into a metal restoration, the baked restoration is evenly on a porcelain furnace, and finally they will finish the restoration.

Therefore, most dental hospitals have a huge technical center responsible for the processing and production of patient restorations. For dental clinics, they will choose to cooperate with a professional dental laboratory. The main work of the dental laboratory is to make corresponding restorations after receiving the plaster tooth model sent by the dental clinic.

However, it is clear that the above manufacturing steps all require manual operation by a craftsman. The efficiency is low, the precision is not high, and the treatment cycle is very long, which cannot meet the needs of patients to quickly restore tooth function.

2. Digital Dentistry

Digital dentistry introduces the powerful functions of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing into the manufacture of dental prostheses.

The dental clinic can use the intraoral scanner to directly obtain the patient’s intraoral digital model, and directly send the digital model file to the dental laboratory. Or a dental lab could receive a plaster model from the clinic and use a lab scanner to convert the model into a digital file itself.

Next, you only need to import the file into the design software, you can design, and then choose to use the milling machine, 3D printer and other equipment to directly make the restoration. This changes the traditional treatment time measured in weeks and months into hours and minutes, which significantly shortens the treatment cycle, improves work efficiency, relieves the pain of patients, and improves the accuracy and quality of the restoration.

Patients only need 30 to 60 minutes of treatment to quickly complete the oral restoration of various diseased teeth and restore the function of the oral and jaw system. Digital prosthodontics has a profound impact on the theory and practice of prosthodontics, and its popularization and application is a technological revolution in modern prosthodontics.

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