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Dental libraries simplify the design of dental implant solutions

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Precision is of the essence when it comes to dental implant solutions. The right angle, size, depth and width are just a few parameters that need to be adjusted to achieve perfection. Luckily, there are digital tools that facilitate the work of dentists and dental technicians today. In my blog post, I will explain what a dental library is, why we offer our digital libraries for free and how they can be used to create a digital workflow that is beneficial for the industry of dental implants.

An increasing need to achieve a digital workflow in the dental industry

The digital development has made an entrance in most industries today, not least in the dental industry. The process of designing customised teeth and dental solutions is changing from a time-consuming handicraft to a more sophisticated digital artform. Consequently, the need to achieve a digital workflow is growing among dentists and dental technicians. For this need to be satisfied, the dental industry must be offered modern and accessible digital solutions, beneficial for dental professionals as well as the patients.

Dental implant library – enables you to design a complete dental solution

A digital workflow starts by an intraoral scanning providing an exact digital copy in 3D of the patient’s teeth, including the implant that provides the basis for the new dental solution. This method enables the dentist to send a digital copy of the scanning to a dental technician, who in turn can open a copy of the intraoral scanning in a dental software program. The tools required to design the solutions’s exterior are included in the software program. However, in order to design a complete solution, all dental parts must be available in the software program. That includes the implant attached to the patient and the component connecting the implant and the new tooth. To gain access to these parts, your software program needs to have the right dental implant libraries installed.

Elos Accurate® offers dental implant libraries containing components for both implant crown, bar and bridge solutions

Elos Accurate® dental components are designed to fit all major implant systems. To gain access to these components, we offer four different digital libraries. Single Abutment is used when conducting a milled single abutment. Bridges and Bars is used when conducting a bridge that is connected to more than one implant. Single Abutment and Bridges and Bars enable individually fabricated components to the implants. Hybrid Base Single and Hybrid Base Bridge are libraries offering prefabricated components for single crowns and bridge solutions. Elos Medtech’s dental libraries are applicable in any open dental software. However, they are specially adapted to 3Shape, Dental Wings and Exocad, which are the three most commonly used softwares.

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Both intraoral scanning and conventional impressions can result in a digital workflow

A digital workflow allows for high-precision design work of dental solutions by ensuring correct measurements and eliminating errors. It also results in a simplified and more efficient workflow, knowing that all necessary parts are available in the software. Besides complementing the digital workflow, Elos Medtech’s dental libraries allow for a flexible milling process. When the dental solution is finished you are able to use your own milling machine, or contact a milling center of your choosing.

Another advantage of Elos Medtech’s libraries is their relevance in a semi-digital workflow. Many dentists don’t have a scanner today and therefore use conventional impressions instead of intraoral scanning. The impression is then sent physically to the dental technician who makes a gypsum model of the impression. The gypsum model is scanned and that way the impression can be added to the digital workflow. Basically, Elos Medtech’s dental libraries enable the dental technician to design the solution in a digital environment regardless if the dentist makes a rubber impression or an intraoral scanning.   

A positive impact on the patient with less risk for adjustments

The digital workflow has a positive impact on the patient as well as the end result. A conventional impression, which is conducted in a semi-digital workflow, can be perceived as unpleasant for the patient. However, an intraoral scanning is more patient-friendly. In addition, when conducting an intraoral scanning and following the digital workflow, there is a greater chance that the solution fits, and less risk of subsequent adjustments.      

Elos Accurate® API® Bridge simplifies for dental technicians

Elos Accurate® API® Bridge is Elos Medtech’s newly launched product, belonging to the library Hybrid Base Bridge. An API-kit (all parts included) comes with the product, providing the dental technician with all components needed to create the dental implant solution. Included in the API-kit is a Model Analog for printed, milled or conventional master model, a Hybrid Base Bridge with the GuideGrip™ Technology and angulation possibilities, a process screw to be used by the lab and a prosthetic screw in a separate blister for the final restoration. Included in the product is also a single batch number for the entire solution. Our aim with the API-kit is to further simplify the digital workflow for the dental technician.  

“The Elos Accurate® API® Bridge works great and simplifies my working process at the laboratorium by saving time and helping me achieve a good end result”, says Mikael Larsson, Dental Technician at Vänersborgs Tandteknik, Sweden.

Elos Medtech offers complete, open and free digital implant libraries to the dental industry

We created the libraries because we wanted to make sure that the people buying our products also have access to working with them. Our most important job is to simplify the digital workflow and to enable the dentists and dental technicians to execute high quality customised dental solutions that live up to the patients’ expectations. Therefore, we emphasise the importance of offering our dental implant libraries free of charge. At Elos Medtech, we strongly believe that the digital workflow is the future. Therefore, it is our job to take part in the digital development and make way for innovative digital solutions that will put a smile to everyone’s faces.

Visit our website to learn more about Elos Medtech and how Elos Accurate® simplifies digital dentistry. While there, don’t forget to pop by our knowledge blog for more in-depth articles related to the medtech industry. Also, contact us if you have any questions.  

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Digital Impression Technique in The Dental Industry

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Do you remember my latest blog article How Digital Dentistry Can Help Simplify The Digital Workflow, where you could read about how digital technologies take the dental industry by storm? In this blog article, I will dig deeper into the effects of intra-oral scanning and why the technique has earned its good reputation. I spoke to a dentist and a dental technician that use Elos Medtech’s digital dentistry solution about their, and more importantly, their patients’ experiences of the digital technique.

The digital development is on the rise within the dental industry

If you ask a dentist and a dental technician about the digital development within dental care, you will most likely get two different answers. From a dentist’s point of view, the development has accelerated only in the last few years, involving digital prints, 3D-printing and intra-oral scanning. For the dental labs, on the other hand, the digital development arose already in the early nineties, starting with the scanner. Since then, many new technologies have emerged on the market, creating a high level of competition. Today, many of the dental labs have up to 95 percent digital equipment, and within the coming five years, most of the dental labs will probably go completely digital.  

The dentists and dental technicians requested a modern and high-quality technique

The dentist and the dental technician work in symbiosis with each other, one dependent on the other to do their job. Therefore, the need for a digital impression technique was just as big for both parties. The dental industry had a need for a smooth technique that would  produce a safe, high-quality product with a good fit. The need for a digital impression technique was also driven by pure health reasons, since the process of molding an object frees a lot of unhealthy gas. Today, the intra-oral scanning procedure is growing stronger and stronger within the dental industry.

“In the dental industry, it is important to work with open systems, and not be tied to certain production flows, which Elos Medtech’s solution enables. The cooperation with Elos Medtech was very successful”, says Björn Gjelvold, Dentist at the Swedish Public Dental Service.

A clear communication and decreased production time with intra-oral scanning

An advantage of using digital impressions is that it allows for dentists to delegate different tasks. Now it is much easier for nurses to perform dental impressions than it was before. It also enables for dentists, in a more active way, to take part in the manufacturing process, since it is easier to communicate with the dental technicians. The digital technique also opens up for easier ways to trace sources of errors.

The intra-oral scanning solution offers the dentists the possibility to connect live to the digital scanning equipment. A live connection allows for the dentists and the dental technicians to work in different cities, but yet at the same time be able to look inside the patient’s mouth. This means that the technicians can provide their expertise to the dentists straight away, instead of waiting for a moulded impression. This is a valuable opportunity since questions and solutions can be discussed and dealt with instantly when the patient is still there, instead of letting the patient go home and discover question marks later. This process accounts for a better end result for the patient. Generally, with the new technique, a larger number of delivered solutions have a higher quality.

A faster and more comfortable experience for dental patients

The patients that have been subjected to both the conventional impression technique and the digital technique experience a profound difference. The old moulding technique is quite messy and smudgy, having the patient sit with a rubber-like material in the mouth for fifteen minutes. The digital technique is more comfortable since it scans the teeth, which only requires a few minutes of the patient’s time. It also allows for the possibility to show the patient a 3D-impression of their teeth on a screen, right after the impression has been made. This means that the dentist can show the patient how their teeth will look like after the corrections have been made. Another possibility is for the dentist to design a few plastic teeth alternatives for the patient to try out, to see which one the patient likes the most. Another positive aspect for the patient is, of course, the products’ good-looking appearance.            

”The cooperation with Elos Medtech has been extremely rewarding. We had a dynamic relationship where we learnt from each other. Elos Medtech’s products have very high precision and we find their products very useful”, says Richard Galambos, Dental Technician at DentalSyd in Sweden.

A bright future for the digital dental impression technique

There is a bright and sunny horizon ahead for the dental industry when it comes to digital impression techniques. The techniques offer the dentists and dental technicians a good chance to continue to develop their cooperation to make them even more fruitful, as well as enable a faster and more precise workflow with fewer intermediaries. The new processes will lead to end results that exceed the results from the previous techniques. As long as professionals within the dental industry are willing to evolve together with the new digital technique, there are endless possibilities to do so, as well as improving the dental techniques and visits for patients.

Elos Medtech offers a digital dentistry solution called Elos Accurate™ Hybrid Base that ensures a validated workflow for your customized restorative solutions of dental implants. Please visit our website for further information. Also, feel free to comment on the article in social media.

How Digital Dentistry Can Help Simplify The Digital Workflow

How Digital Dentistry Can Help Simplify The Digital Workflow

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Digital dentistry is snowballing its way into the gateways of many dental labs across the world. New technologies provide innovative solutions to traditional dental problems. As a dentist, you want to perform dental treatment as efficiently as possible and provide your patients with successful esthetic results. In this blog post, I will discuss how digital dentistry can help simplify the digital workflow.

Digital dentistry technologies provide high-quality care

Digital dentistry can be described as any dental technology or device that incorporates digital or computer-controlled components. There are a number of different digital dentistry technologies available. Common to all of them is that they provide more immediate and detailed information compared to traditional, technology. Moreover, these new digital dentistry technologies allow more efficient collaboration between dental professionals such as dentists and dental technicians. Naturally, the more precise the diagnosis and restorations, the higher the quality of dental care.

Computer-aided design and manufacturing of dentistry

One of the technologies in digital dentistry is CAD/CAM which involves computer-aided design and manufacturing of dental products. The technology allows you to create dental restorations fast, easy and more precisely. As a dentist, you do an intra-oral scanning of the patient’s teeth. You then send the digital file to your dental lab where the restoration is designed by the computer software and the information is sent to a milling machine that creates the prosthetic restoration.

Advantages of CAD/CAM restorations and intra-oral scanning

Digital dentistry brings many advantages. Providing the lab with a digital file instead of an actual impression minimises the risk of errors as the digital file can be reviewed and revised over and over again, before the actual design and milling are made. The digital technology helps you and your colleagues do your job more efficiently and gives you complete control of the final result. The intra-oral scan file increases the possibility to obtain high precision restorations compared to using traditional impressions. As the restorations after intra-oral scanning are fabricated via CAD/CAM, digital dentistry allows a more simplified workflow for the dental technician when producing the restoration for the dentist – a much much faster and more secured way of working.

Reduce complexity and simplify the digital workflow

At Elos Medtech, we have extensive experience of product development and design of dental implants and instruments. As early as in 1975, we started to cooperate in a development project with Professor Per-Ingvar Brånemark, and began manufacturing dental implant products for replacement of teeth. Recently, we launched a new digital dentistry solution called Elos Accurate™ Hybrid Base, which uses the technology of CAD/CAM. It is a prosthetic solution for screw retained single, cement retained single and bridge restorations, especially designed to reduce complexity and simplify the digital workflow. To find out more about our solution, please visit our website.

I hope this blog post gave you more insight into how digital dentistry can help simplify the digital workflow. Are you thinking about going digital? Don’t hesitate to contact me with your questions and queries! You are also welcome to visit our webshop for more detailed info about our digital dentistry solutions and products.