Digital Dentistry — Digital Impression and CAD/CAM System Applications

• Main Authors: Gabor Alin-Gabriel, Zaharia Cristian, Stan Adrian Tudor, Gavrilovici Andrei Mihai, Negruțiu Meda-Lavinia, Sinescu Cosmin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2017-03-01
• Series: Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine
• Subjects: digital dentistry; digital impression; CAD/CAM
• Online Access: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jim.2017.2.issue-1/jim-2017-0033/jim-2017-0033.xml?format=INT

Digital imprint and computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacture (CAD/CAM) systems offer several benefits compared to traditional techniques. The use of a CAD/CAM system to scan preparations and generate restorations in-office, removes a second appointment for the patient. The existence of precision benefits in using complete systems and chairside scanning systems, has been proven. CAD/CAM restorations have a good longevity and meet the accepted clinical parameters. New digital impression methods are presently accessible, and before long, the long-awaited goal of sparing patients of one the most unpleasant practices in clinical dentistry, acquiring dental impressions, will be exchanged by intraoral digital scanning. CAD/CAM systems existing nowadays, can feed data through accurate digital scans created from plaster models, straight to manufacturing systems that can shape ceramic or resin restorations with no requirement of a physical copy of the prepared, adjacent, and antagonist teeth.