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Medit has launched the Medit iE today, a 'new' wired intraoral scanner priced at $10,999 USD. Here's the thing. On paper, it is basically an i900. Medit says the iE uses the same third-generation optical engine, ...
Clinical execution is the least important part of digital smile design. That ranking comes from Dr. Christian Coachman, the person who created it. Dr. Christian is a dentist, a dental technician, and the founder and CEO ...
SprintRay has officially launched MIDAS Restore, and after several months of hands-on testing as part of the beta program, I think this is the most significant restorative resin release we have seen so far. The launch went live ...
Materials, not printers, decide whether a 3D-printed crown works. That is the argument Hossein Bassir kept coming back to, and after a decade building SprintRay, he has earned the right to make it. I sat down ...
One of the first Ceramix-Nano units in the world is here at the iDD Studio, and the first thing that hits you is the size. I have been waiting for this one since Shining 3D announced ...
Bringing your lab work in-house is not a technology decision. It is a business decision, and most dentists make it the other way around. They see a colleague post a milled crown or a 3D printed ...
"You must stay current, or you will be left behind." That is not a marketer talking. That is the president of the Chicago Dental Society, and he means it as a word of caution to every clinician ...
Every material that now sits comfortably in your operatory was once something the profession didn't trust. Zirconia is a great example. In the mid-2000s, the standard indirect restoration was still a PFM (porcelain-fused-to-metal) crown. Dentists tolerated ...
Medit has started previewing Medit Orthodontic Suite (MOS) 2.3, the first major update to its ortho software since it relaunched the platform alongside Medit Aligners in 2025. I have been testing it for some time, and this ...
Cosmetic dentistry looks nothing like it did 30 years ago, so on this episode of Digital Dentistry Decoded, I put a simple question to a dentist who has practiced through the entire shift. What has actually changed, ...
Every restorative dentist carries the same fear. Once the bur touches enamel, there is no undo button. Guided tooth preparation is the answer, and it is the subject of two full chapters inside our Aesthetic Smile ...
A framework that misses passive fit by just 40 to 50 microns, roughly half the width of a human hair, can cause screw loosening, bone loss, and eventual failure. That is not a rounding error. That ...
A patient does not decide to go ahead with treatment by weighing your diagnosis against doing nothing. They decide by weighing how they feel about you, about the outcome, and about themselves in that outcome, against ...
An implant with less-than-ideal primary stability, an implant crown screw access hole through the facial surface, and a ridge that turned out softer than the scan suggested. Ask where each of these problems actually started, and ...
An iDD member recently asked me a question I get quite often. They wanted a proper comparison of how the current generation of scanners handles soft tissue and edentulous ridges. In short, which scanner is best ...
What a 92 Percent Case Acceptance Rate Looks Like in Cosmetic Dentistry Welcome back to another episode of the Digital Dentistry Decoded podcast. Dr. Ahmad here from iDD. This week I sat down with Dr. Brian ...
Phrozen has long been a familiar name in the dental 3D printing space, but perhaps not for the reasons they would prefer. For years, dentists and lab technicians bought the consumer-grade printers, tinkered with settings, hacked ...
Interesting news last week - Dentsply Sirona and HeyGears have confirmed that the Lucitone Digital Print Denture resins are now validated for one-piece denture production on the new HeyGears UltraCraft Multi-Material Fusion (MMF) DLP 3D printer. ...
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