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The International Dental Show (IDS) 2025 stands as dentistry’s Olympic Games – the definitive global event where innovation takes center stage. Walking through the vast halls of Koelnmesse, the sheer scale is breathtaking. Over 2,500 exhibitors from 64 countries showcasing their latest technologies to more than 160,000 visitors across five days of non-stop innovation. It
The new Sensa has just been launched at IDS 2025 by Alliedstar. This marks a significant evolution for the company, following their acquisition by Straumann Group in 2023. This new scanner is a complete redesign of their IOS line, moving away from their industrial-looking predecessors to a modern, ergonomic design. Here is everything you need to know.Alliedstar
3Shape has officially launched the highly anticipated TRIOS 6 at IDS 2025.This release signals a potential paradigm shift, not just for 3Shape but for the entire digital dentistry landscape. Rather than focusing on hardware improvements or a more compact design, 3Shape introduces a comprehensive ecosystem: the TRIOS 6 scanner, the powerful new TRIOS Dx Plus
We’ve covered 3DISC quite extensively here at the Institute of Digital Dentistry. We were fans of their intraoral scanner – the 3DISC Heron – but found it’s software a bit lacking. While we were at IDS 2023, we caught up with 3DISC’s CEO Marie-Laure Pochon to talk about their new intraoral scanner – the OVO. Hi there!
We’ve covered a lot of exciting innovations in digital dentistry over the years, and one of the most interesting companies we’ve come across is Korean company Ray.We’ve already reviewed their RAYFace facial scanner – and were seriously impressed with the results.So when we spoke to Ray’s Head of Global Marketing Scott Jo, we were intrigued
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a prominent topic in dentistry, with the potential to revolutionize the way oral healthcare is practiced. At IDS 2023, we saw so many companies showing off their AI functionality that we started to lose count.One such company was Pearl AI with their new software, a dental diagnosis and treatment planning
Until a couple years ago, CAD/CAM technology was the latest advancement in dental technology. Although CAD/CAM is still used extensively as a crucial tool in dentistry today, 3D printing has become a digital revolution that the dental industry has quickly adopted, in both chairside and in dental laboratories. In recent years, 3D printing has proven to
Guided Implant Surgery Systems were a big focal point of IDS 2023. Last year, we gave our first impressions on the X-Guide Guided Implant System.Using the X-Guide, we were able to place two implants in less than 40 minutes without using any surgical guides.Since then, we’ve seen quite a few guided implant systems appear on
Ever since the Virtuo Vivo released in 2019 and didn’t exactly garner a lot of positive reviews, Straumann have been on a mission to massively improve the scanner – in fact, it actually won most improved at our Intraoral Scanner Awards.I was previously impressed with how much they improved the scanner when I tried it
Welcome to our recap of Day 5 at the International Dental Show (IDS) – the world’s leading trade fair for the dental industry.We’ve been extremely busy documenting everything we saw at the event, you can see our previous recaps below.Check out what we saw on day 1.See our day 2 recap here.Here’s everything we saw
Welcome to our recap of Day 4 at the International Dental Show (IDS) – the world’s leading trade fair for the dental industry. We’ve been extremely busy documenting everything during the event. You can read our previous recaps below.Check out what we saw on day 1.See our day 2 recap here.Here’s everything we saw at day
Welcome to our recap of Day 3 at the International Dental Show (IDS) – the world’s leading trade fair for the dental industry. We’ve been extremely busy documenting everything during the event. You can read our previous recaps below.Check out what we saw on day 1.See our day 2 recap here.I spent a lot of the
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