Modern Digital Dentistry Means Greater Patient Comfort

Modern digital dentistry offers many advantages for patients that not only mean great aesthetic outcomes, but also greater efficiency, better patient comfort and longer lasting results. Utilising state of the art equipment to enhance the comfort of our patients is one of our top priorities. At Dental on Cambridge, we pride ourselves on using the most cutting-edge technology to provide the highest quality treatment and care. Treatment outcomes include providing beautiful and realistic looking crowns, bridges and dentures in less appointments than when using traditional techniques.

Previously, in order to create a new tooth for a crown, bridge or even a denture, patients would have to endure sometimes gag inducing impression material to take impressions of their teeth. If you have experienced the discomfort of having a traditional dental impressions done in the past you know all to well that this can be an unpleasant experience. Whether it be the awful taste or the feeling of the runny goo inducing a gag reflex. By utilising ultra high definition intra oral 3d scanners, the need to take traditional dental impressions/casts is now eliminated.

Additional benefits of using digital scans compared to traditional  dental impressions, are speed and accuracy. Traditional impressions take up to 5 minutes to set properly, and can often distort due to unavoidable patient movement such as swallowing or tongue movements. Additionally, traditional impressions are more sensitive to moisture contamination leading to loss of accuracy and detail.

With an intra oral scanner, due to the speed of acquisition and the ability to pause and resume data collection at any point, theses issues are mitigated, and the end result is extremely accurate. The intra oral scanner is a small wand like camera device that quickly records three dimensional data inside the mouth in exceptionally high detail, which is then used for 3D cad/cam design and 3d printing of devices such as dental splints and dental models.

 How does this help with my dental visit? One of the biggest benefits we see is that patients report that the procedure is quicker and more comfortable. Additionally, we see that crowns, bridges, splints, partial dentures and implant crowns, fit better and require less adjustments on completion. This means less dental visits are required to complete the work. So if you’ve been putting off coming to the dentist because you are dreading the awful goop and gagging  you may have experienced in the past,  we can help! It’s just one of the many ways we provide the highest quality treatment and service to our patients. Give our team a call on 3348 6661 to see how we can best help you.