{"id":1397,"date":"2017-06-30T14:43:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cerecdigest.net\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2018-11-17T07:45:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T07:45:38","slug":"unique-approach-intraoral-scanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cerecdigest.net\/2017\/06\/30\/unique-approach-intraoral-scanning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Unique Approach to Intraoral Scanning
The stage was set. What we witnessed this year at the International Dental Show, and various other exhibitions that followed, was a change in the course of conversation. No longer are we comparing the accuracy and efficiency of intraoral scanners with traditional impressions. No longer do we question whether intraoral scanners are viable for prosthodontic, orthodontic, surgical and other dental treatments. In the realm of chairside CAD\/CAM, dental professionals are now comparing these scanning technologies with each other instead and, frankly, this is where things start to get interesting. <\/span><\/p>\n At IDS 2017, we compared intraoral scanners based on our hands-on impressions, as well as our interactions with sales representatives. During my research for writing the review article<\/a>, one thing that piqued my curiosity was the method of image acquisition used by the Condor scanner. <\/span>Software-driven <\/span><\/i>was a buzzword that got thrown around at dental shows, but nobody was really able to provide me with a technical and satisfactory explanation as to what it is and how it is significant.<\/span><\/p>\n Until now.<\/span><\/p>\n Last month, I was offered the opportunity to interview one of the co-founders of Condor Scan, Professor Fran\u00e7ois Duret, whose 1973 paper Emprinte Optique<\/em> (Optical Impression) introduced the application of CAD\/CAM concepts to the world of dentistry. Having published hundreds of papers related to this field, Dr. Duret was the first to describe a viable solution to chairside milling of restoratives. Decades before the internet became popularized, he envisioned a world where these virtual models could be sent from one doctor to the next for professional consultation. Reading his texts, it’s obvious that his ideas were really far ahead of their time, and was limited only by the technology available at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n