Abstract
Digital dentistry has gained increasing importance in clinical dental practice in recent years, and the purpose of this chapter is to help provide insights into the specifications of some of the more common intraoral scanners available in the market today. There are innumerable choices of intraoral scanners available that suit a variety of budgets. Intraoral scanners are devices for capturing direct optical impressions in dentistry. They help create a virtual, computer-generated replica of the hard and soft tissues of the oral cavity in mere minutes, without the need for conventional impression materials. To try and help clinicians choose a system that best fits their needs, we have made comparisons between conventional and digital impressions as well as enumerated some of the advantages, disadvantages, indications, and contraindications of the highlighted digital impressions.
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Khalifa, N. (2021). Digital Impressions. In: Jain, P., Gupta, M. (eds) Digitization in Dentistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65169-5_6
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