Digital Impressions

This post is for anyone who is getting or planning on getting any crowns (caps) or bridges done in the future.

Our office recently purchased the E4D digital impression scanner. This allows us to scan your teeth digitally and send the information electronically to the lab to make your crowns or bridges.

The biggest benefit for you, our patients, is no more goop in your mouth! We also invested in a scanner that, unlike many other brands, does not require a powder to be used in the mouth. Just a quick scan with a small wand and you are on your way! The other benefit is that, with a digital impression, the laboratory is usually able to make the crown or bridge even more accurately. This means that when you come back to get your final crown or bridge, you spend less time in the chair having it adjusted.

The digital impression is automatically saved in the hard drive, so that it can never be lost or damaged if we ever want to look back.

There are also environmental benefits: less material will be used and disposed of, less trays will need to be cleaned and sterilized or thrown out. There are also less fumes produced due to transportation. With traditional impressions, either a courier or FedEx has to come pick up the impressions, deliver them to the lab, and then pick up the dental prosthesis and deliver it to us. Now there is only a one-way trip: the laboratory to us!

So if you have been putting of any work due to hating the gagging feeling of all that goopy material in your mouth, please know that is a thing of the past!