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Dental Implants and Digitization

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The impact of digital technology on surgical and restorative aspects of implant dentistry has been enormous in the past few decades. This has led to greater precision in surgical implantology with less morbidity and has allowed the manufacturing of restorations with unsurpassed accuracy and precision as compared to conventional techniques. While achieving these benefits, digital technology has allowed faster turnaround times without a concomitant increase in the overall economic burden to the end consumer, the patient. This chapter outlines these surgical and restoratively relevant digital protocols and traces the pathway this technology has taken in the past while providing a glimpse of what is in store for the future.

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Surathu, N., Tunkiwala, A., Kher, U. (2021). Dental Implants and Digitization. In: Jain, P., Gupta, M. (eds) Digitization in Dentistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65169-5_12

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