GAP Australasian-Dentist-Mar Apr 2019

Category 102 AustrAlAsiAn Dentist Primescan is a technological milestone that will perfect the process of making digital impressions in the dental practice. successful scanning is quick and easy, delivering results of unprecedented accuracy and impressive quality. Primescan affords the dentist more options for digitalizing treatment steps. Dentists can also rely entirely on digital processes when working with their dental technician. this amazes users and makes the inventors and developers very proud. Prof. Dr Werner Mörmann, Zürich, inventor of CEREC “i congratulate Dentsply sirona on this milestone. it is a great feeling to know that, with this extraordinary intraoral scanner, the company has gone far beyond our enthusiasm and drive to innovate from the beginnings of CereC and is perfecting the CAD/CAM technology. People laughed at our vision of making digital impressions in those days, but now it is evolving into a completely new standard for treatment and documentation. that fills me with delight and pride as a CAD/ CAM pioneer and a clinician. Four years ago, at the celebrations marking 30 years of CereC, i was asked where i thought CereC would be on its 50th anniversary. “i am optimistic, and i predict that, by then, there will be CereC, but at least an intraoral scanner, in every practice. then, dentists will routinely make an optical impression of the entire mouth for every new patient.” Having learned about this new scanner, i am convinced that its popularity with dentists will reach this level quite soon, long before its 50th anniversary.” Dr Verena Freier, dentist with private practice in Bad-Soden, Germany “i have been working with CereC for about three years, and i use the digital impression function routinely for single tooth restorations with almost all my patients. i have always been enthusiastic about the efficiency, patient comfort and applications of the CereC system. With the new Primescan intraoral scanner, which is, of course, entirely compatible with CereC, this treatment is raised to an entirely new level of quality. the accuracy was already really good before, but now it is superb. And at the same time, everything is easy and uncomplicated – i really wouldn’t want to try working without the scanner anymore. i particularly like the operation via the touch interface. And i can do everything much faster as well. Patient satisfaction is very important to me, so i am particularly pleased to have patients who inquire specifically about this impression creation method and tell their friends and family about it as soon as they have experienced it themselves.” Dr Mike Skramstad, DDS from Orono, Minnesota, USA “i have been working with intraoral scanners for a very long time. What i need as a user is accuracy, ease of use, speed, integrations, and limitless applications. Meeting all five of these benchmarks at the same time has been quite difficult and has not been accomplished by any manufacturer in the past. With the introduction of Dentsply sirona’s Primescan things have changed remarkably. scanning is easier than ever and more accurate than previously possible. What impresses me most about Primescan are the superior software performance and Ai automation, increasing efficiency and at the same time decreasing the learning curve. i’m excited about the limitless dental applications that i have access to working with Primescan. the user experience overall is far beyond of what can be expected from any other intraoral scanner that is currently available.” Dr Carlos Repullo, dentist from Seville, Spain “As a dentist, my expectation of myself is to deliver perfect results for every one of my patients. in this regard, digital technologies can be enormously helpful. this is particularly true for Primescan because the scan now delivers a precision that one can scarcely imagine being improved. And this also applies to a full jaw scan, which can be prepared exceptionally quickly. this is exactly the quality we need in our practices. We want to provide patients with the best possible treatment, but we don’t want to treat them for any longer than what is absolutely necessary. Handling must be quick, easy and safe, the operating principle must be stable. the new intraoral scanner delivers all that. But even Primescan has one tiny “flaw” after all: if the restoration does not sit perfectly, i can no longer blame it on the equipment.” Frankie Acosta, dental technician from Murrieta, California, USA “As a dental laboratory that has worked with digital scans for more than 10 years, we are very happy that it will now be even easier for dentists to take impressions with an intraoral scanner. We see Primescan’s truly outstanding accuracy in our day- to-day business, and it enables even us to deliver excellent work. What’s more is that the entire workflow is made very simple thanks to the new Connect Case Center inbox. thanks to the automated download function, we can work faster and more intensively than ever before.” Dr Frank Thiel, Vice President R&D at Dentsply Sirona CAD/CAM & orthodontics “Primescan is indeed a milestone. We introduced the technology for digital impressions to the market several decades ago, and we have now refined it to such a point that it can practically do everything in the impressions field. the remarkable thing about Primescan is the astounding volume of data that is generated in an extremely short time. the data is processed with a completely new technology, high- frequency contrast analysis. this enables us to achieve an unprecedented degree of precision with Primescan – with every impression. this most certainly opens up the prospect of options to use it for other indications. We in r&D are very proud of the intraoral scanner. it can do more than anything else known on the market, and, incidentally, is fun to use.” u Primescan perfects digital impressions testIMonIal