Dental Tribune U.S. Edition

Clinicians are leveraging their investments in chairside digital impression systems to reduce the time and cost of implant therapy. Dental technicians produce cus- tom abutments and crowns directly from digital impressions taken with these systems, eliminating the need for physical models. Dentists and patients alike can benefit from this simple, conve- nient and affordable restorative process. From a chairside digital impression, Glidewell Laboratories will digitally de- sign and fabricate a custom abutment or crown in two days or less. Dentists save on the cost of impression materials, ship- ping to the lab and model work, and they benefit from lower lab prices on restora- tions. The process for taking the digital implant impression and sending it to the lab is straightforward. Chairside procedure is as follows: 1) Remove the healing abutment and attach an Inclusive® Scanning Abutment (available through Glidewell Direct) to the implant. For Bellatek® Encode® Im- pression System (Biomet 3i™; Warsaw, Ind.) digital impressions, it is not neces- sary to remove the healing abutment. 2) Take buccal, lingual and occlusal scans of the implant site. 3) Scan the opposing dentition. 4) Remove the scanning abutment and scan the bite. 5) Electronically submit the digital im- plant impression to the lab. For system-specific information on how to send digital implant impres- Two-day custom abutments and crowns from intraoral scans Glidewell Laboratories describes restorative process as ‘simple, convenient and affordable’ • Above, Glidewell Laboratories reports that its chairside digital impression scans communicate patient anatomy to the lab with improved accuracy and efficiency. • Below left, system-specific intraoral workflow guides are available at www.glidewelldental.com. • Below right, CAD/CAM crowns and abutments ship in two days or less when derived from digital implant impressions. Photos/Provided by Glidewell Laboratories sions to Glidewell Laboratories, intra- oral workflow guides are available by visiting the “Digital Impression Systems” page under Dentist, then Services, at www.glidewelldental.com. (Source: Glidewell Laboratories) Dental Tribune U.S. Edition | August 2013 A11iNduStry NEWS CDA BOOTH NO. 1328 Ad