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Implants, News, Shining 3D, Unboxing

SHINING 3D Launches Aoralscan Elite – Intraoral Photogrammetry is Here!

This has been an incredibly busy year for digital dentistry—as busy as I can remember, rivaling IDS 2019. In the past six months, we have seen releases from Medit, iTero, 3Shape, Dentsply Sirona, Asiga, Formlabs, Sprintray, ...

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CEREC, Dentsply Sirona, News, Unboxing

Dentsply Sirona Launches Primescan 2: The First Ever Cloud Intraoral Scanner

Dentsply Sirona has just launched their latest intraoral scanner. A huge day for the company. The company has been spearheading  digital dentistry for nearly four decades. Since the introduction of CEREC 1 in 1985, they've have ...

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3D Printing, Asiga, News, Unboxing

Unboxing the Asiga Ultra: What Dentists Need to Know About This 3D Printer

Today, we're diving into one of the latest releases in the world of digital dentistry - the Asiga Ultra 3D printer. For those unfamiliar with Asiga, they're an Australian company that has been making waves in ...

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AI, News, Workflows

The Future of Digital Dentistry: AI Robot Successfully Places Dental Crown

In a frankly, quite crazy development that may revolutionize the field of digital dentistry in the future, the world's first fully autonomous robot-performed dental crown placement has been completed. Insane! Something that has been joked about ...

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CEREC, Dentsply Sirona, News

Dentsply Sirona Teases Game-Changing Innovation at Upcoming 2024 World Events

Dentsply Sirona, a titan in the dental industry, seems like it is about to shake things up again.  In a just-released video announcement, the new CEO of Dentsply Sirona, Simon Campion, hinted at a groundbreaking product ...

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All-on-X, Clinical Cases, Dentures, Horizontal Scan Bodies, Implants, News, Workflows

A Revolution in Restoring Full Arch Implants – The Nexus IOS Workflow

Full arch implant procedures have significantly increased in popularity of the past 10 years. Both among dentists and also patients who are looking for a non-removable treatment modality for the replacement of all their teeth. Regardless ...

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3D Printing, Dentures, News

Interview with Akruti Tataria: Debunking Digital Denture Myths with Avant Dental

As digital dentures rapidly become mainstream in dentistry, more and more practitioners are looking to stay ahead of the curve. That's where Akruti Tataria’s expertise comes in. For those of you who don’t know, Akruti is ...

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3D Printing, Ackuretta, News

Ackuretta Introduces NFinity: Exploring the Role of Nitrogen in Dental 3D Printing Post-Curing

In the rapidly evolving world of digital dentistry, innovation is the key to delivering superior patient care. On July 11, 2024, Ackuretta, a global leader in high-precision 3D printing solutions for dental professionals, unveiled its latest ...

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iTero, News, Unboxing

iTero Lumina Unveiled: An In-Depth Unboxing of Align Technology’s Newest Intraoral Scanner

The dental world has been eagerly anticipating a new release from Align Technology, and it's finally here. The iTero Lumina, Align's latest intraoral scanner, arrived in February to shake up the market. I was given the ...

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exocad, News

Interview with Marjorie Andrade: Mastering exocad with iDD

When we first started creating our Mastering exocad course with Marjorie Andrade, we had a feeling it would be something special.  But truthfully, we had no idea that it would be our most popular course!  At ...

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3D Printing, News, Shining 3D

New Releases by Shining 3D! A recap of the Shining 3D MEA Conference

Last week Shining 3D had their MEA reseller meeting in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and I was kindly invited to give a lecture at the event. My lecture was on "Integrating Intraoral Scanning, Face Scanning and 3D ...

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Dentsply Sirona, News

Dentsply Sirona and Siemens Healthineers Launch First Ever Dental MRI!

Dentsply Sirona and Siemens Healthineers just unveiled the MAGNETOM Free.Max Dental Edition, which is the first-ever dental-dedicated magnetic resonance imaging (ddMRI) system. This is kind of huge news for dental imaging and diagnostics. They introduced this ...

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3Shape, News, TRIOS

Updated TRIOS 3 Intraoral Scanner – What’s Changed?

It’s been a pretty big week for 3Shape. At their Discover event, the company announced four really exciting releases. You can check them all out in our recap blog here, but in this article, we’ll deep-dive ...

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3Shape, News, TRIOS

New 3Shape TRIOS Core Intraoral Scanner – Everything We Know So Far

One of the biggest names in digital dentistry just released a new scanner, so let’s go over everything about 3Shape’s new TRIOS CORE intraoral scanner. Check out our video below, or keep reading for all the ...

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3Shape, News

3Shape Discover Recap – New Scanner, Updated TRIOS 3, New Unite and TRIOS Ready Tips!

The 3ShapeDiscover event was big. The company just announced some news that we think is going to have a large impact on the intraoral scanner market. There were four announcements that happened at 3Shape's Discover event ...

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Exocad Announces 3.2 Elefsina at Insights 2024
CAD/CAM, exocad, News

Exocad Showcases 3.2 Elefsina at Insights 2024

Earlier this month, exocad held the fourth edition of its global digital dentistry event, Insights. During the event, the company showed off its new DentalCAD software update - 3.2 Elefsina. It looks like there’s some really ...

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News, TRIOS

3Shape Announces Unite 3rd Generation – Access Scans Anywhere Using the Cloud!

3Shape’s popular Unite platform is getting an update - and it’s a big one. Although this news maybe overshadowed by the likes of the Medit i900, SprintRay Midas, and Formlabs 4B, it is massive news for ...

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Medit, News

Overview of the Medit i900 – the Newly Released Scanner by Medit

One of digital dentistry’s biggest companies has just released a brand new intraoral scanner! The Medit i900! "The lightest and most compact scanner Medit has ever produced" I have been beta-testing this scanner before its release ...

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