Considerations for integrating digital intraoral scanners into general dental practice.

Abstract

journals.sagepub.com/home/PrD 51 © the Author(s) 2022. Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions Doi: 10.1177/20501684221132907 Introduction the shift from traditional analogue practices and the integration of digital technologies in dentistry have allowed clinicians to optimise and develop efficient patient care workflows. in particular, intraoral scanners (ioS) have not only allowed clinicians to save time and increase patient flow, but also improve patient comfort, increase direct savings, and provide a better mode of communication between clinicians and dental technicians.1-3 By removing the need for handling numerous dental materials and significantly reducing the accumulation of processing errors, recent studies have repeatedly shown that ioS are delivering accurate results. the most important feature of an ioS is the accuracy of digital scans, which is determined by trueness and precision.4-6 while trueness is defined by the closeness of agreement of digital scans to the original object, precision is defined by the consistency of agreement between subsequent scans.5