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| meetings IDS 2017 Innovation fireworks Solutions for the practice and laboratory of tomorrow—the opportunities of current technologies: IDS 2017 By Koelnmesse GmbH In the field of dentistry, the opportunities of current technologies are very concrete, very tangible as the International Dental Show 2017 (IDS) in Cologne demonstrated. In this way, the visitors experienced substantial enhancements to established digital workflows—from imaging techniques through to 3-D printing. In addition, the exhibiting companies also presented innovations for traditional working meth- ods in the laboratory and practice. What form will the work in practices and laboratories take on tomorrow and how can dentists and dental technicians seize the opportunities that are already visible today? This specifically applies to the digital processes. In the field of implantology, they have already signifi- cantly contributed towards exploiting the healing potential of the body to a maximum through opti- mised planning. Implantology has long since been considered to be the flagship discipline for the implementation of dig- ital technologies. How far these have pushed forward in the spectrum of dentistry is demonstrated in a field that some people initially considered to be rather dif- ficult terrain: orthodontics. With virtual models for orthodontics not only can diagnostic issues be pro- cessed and a virtual set-up created, but also more and more often orthodontic appliances can be planned, such as, for example, fixed devices. Even the largest orthodontics challenge for digital technology is in- creasingly coming under focus: removable devices such as stretching plates, activators, etc. 54 CAD/CAM 2 2017