Integrating Cutting-Edge Digital Technology at WPOMS
Impressions are an important step in almost any dental treatment plan. For implant patients, your impressions allow your oral surgeon to create a precise mold of all of your teeth, ensuring that your dental implant will fit with your bite. Traditionally, this meant that a tray full of goopy alginate impression material would be inserted into your mouth and left to harden for a few minutes. This, unfortunately, is not always the most comfortable experience for you. The alginate material does not taste great, and it may activate the gag reflexes of some patients. However, there is a new, cutting-edge way to take digital impressions instead of physical ones: intraoral scanners. In Dr. Krakora’s office, we use the TRIOS Scanner to create precise digital impressions while ensuring that our patients have a comfortable experience. Here’s how it works.The TRIOS Scanner for Dental Implant Patients
When you come in to WPOMS to take your digital impressions, you’ll see one of our surgical assistants with a hand-held device that looks like something out of science fiction. Have no fear—this is our TRIOS Scanner! You can sit back and open wide while our assistant guides the scanner around your teeth and gums at all angles. The scanner takes 3,000 pictures per second and combines them to create an incredibly accurate 3D image. You’ll be able to watch on a nearby screen as the virtual model of your mouth is constructed piece by piece, in full color. All of this is done without any discomfort; you just have to help keep your tongue and cheeks out of the way. When your scan is finished, it gets combined with the data from your CT scan so the surgeon can use it for treatment planning.