In prosthetic rehabilitation, we use for many years codified and widely described protocols in literature, with results that meet our expectations and well above those of our patients. It is true that the advent of new technologies has enabled us to use new material and new equipment that facilitate the production of an adaptation and an accuracy that has, up to now, been difficult to obtain.
Today, intraoral mapping technology is one of the most exciting new areas in dentistry since three-dimensional scanning of the mouth is required in a large number of procedures such as prosthodontics, implant dentistry and orthodontics. All the existing intraoral scanners are trying to face the limitations and the disadvantages of the traditional impression procedure maintaining a high accuracy level in order to be used as an efficacious alternative to the conventional impression technique. During this lecture, we will analyze different cases, highlighting the operational differences that we have developed over time, with the increasing knowledge of new materials. We will see then how traditional materials and techniques have been replaced with other innovative new technologies, and how the results obtained with these are systematic and overlapping times better than traditional one.
Objective: This presentation will offer an overview of the new digital possibilities. A fully digital workflow is the goal modern dentistry is trying to achieve increasing as well the predictability of the final rehabilitation and the intraoral scanner permits in specific cases to fulfill this.
