Dental Scanners in Prosthodontics

Abstract

As a digital technology enters in every area of everyday life, including the medicine, it begins to increase its influence in dental practice too. The term scanner in dentistry is called a 3-D scanner and refers to an instrument that collects data on the three-dimensional spatial layout and the shape of the tooth and dental structures in the mouth or the model and transforms them into a set of digital data. With the help of the scanner, the anatomic-morphological structures of the oral cavity are recorded or reflected and data are received in digital form.The first stage in the three-part CAD / CAM process of making a prosthetic device-scanning of the anatomic-morphological structures in this process presents the main basis of the future dental restoration. The scanning, as well as the remaining two parts of the CAD / CAM system are taken from the mechanical engineering sciences that incorporate dental doctrines for the production of a prosthetic devices. The dentists who want to use this technology often do not have enough time or sufficient knowledge to understand the current scanning process. The term scanner in dentistry is called a 3-D scanner and refers to an instrument that collects data on the three-dimensional spatial layout and the shape of the tooth and dental structures in the mouth or the model and transforms them into a set of digital data. With the help of the scanner, the anatomic and morphological structures of the oral cavity are recorded or reflected and data are received in digital form. For these reasons, we feel the need to demonstrate the development of the dental scanning process and its methodological procedures to obtain a virtual model. This makes it possible to obtain a complete picture of digital technology and to understand the necessary information about the scanning process that is today in everyday use. The paper presents the basic data that are currently available with the remark that this technology has a rapid development that will contribute to even better results in the manufacture of prosthetic devices.