Why go digital?
Save money.
Taking good impressions can be expensive, even more so when you have to take them more than once! Add to that the cost of disinfecting laboratory work and the time and PPE spent doing so and you can see why a digital workflow can make dentures more economical.
Save time.
Dentistry post COVID is a new challenge entirely; now more than ever surgery time is precious and digital workflows are the solution:
Save time on impressions;
Reduce clean-up and disinfection time;
Reduce the total number of visits;
Reduce delivery and postal times.
Improve quality.
Analogue workflows contain a number of stages where inaccuracies can be introduced; we can take the guess work out of dentures and deliver precise, reproducible results.
Improve the patient journey.
Even when taking impressions, our digital workflows means less visits in total for patients as well as getting their dentures from start to finish quicker. Additionally, dentures can be saved in case of loss or damage.
Improve infection control.
Traditional impressions require multiple cross infection exposures in surgery, then out of surgery as the work is being transported to the laboratory.
The graphic below shows the respective infection risks with both fully analogue and fully digital workflows:
