Game-Changing Products 2023

Vincent Verderosa, CDT, MDT

It is amazing what this polyjet 3D printer can do with different colors with the TrueDent material.

ARCHICLEAN

Archibald Digital

Mark Williamson, CDT

I saw these IPA washing units advertised on Facebook and fell in love with them. I can fit the whole printing plate with parts attached for the first wash. Nice quality build!

OPTISPLINT

Digital Arches

Arian Deutsch, CDT

OPTISPLINT is a scannable verification jig for full arches-no photogrammetry equipment needed. Basically, it uses "grammetry," or the geometry of the OPTISPLINT connector mesh, to maximize the accuracy of an intraoral scanner, while also creating a physical verification jig that can be used to pour in gypsum for a physically verified model with analogs.

POSCA DUPLICATING UNIT

Posca Dental Supply

Mark Williamson, CDT

This duplicating machine is so easy to set up and use from the start, and the concentrated duplicating material, Posca Concentrated Colloid, works really well.

2CREATE

2oneLab

Andre Theberge, CDT, RDT

We use this SLM metal printer and DLyte polishers for metal partials. This allows us to eliminate refractory models, waxing, investing, casting, and most of the finishing processes. We can go from design to print and then to final finishing. It has revolutionized our metal partial frame processes.

GC INITIAL LISI BLOCK

GC America Inc.

Richard A. Sousa, DDS

As a trained dental technician, I have heavily incorporated GC Initial LiSi Blocks into my chairside restorative procedures. They look great, and the fact that they usually do not require sintering-just polishing-makes them a great time saver.

NEW VALIDATIONS FOR LUCITONE DIGITAL PRINT

DENTURE SYSTEM

Dentsply Sirona

Dan Elfring, Master CDT

Prior to LDP, most of the printed resins I had tried were too brittle, the shades were poor, or they were just not strong enough. LDP was only validated for one brand of printer, which limited its use to a certain type of laboratory. Now, LDP is validated on the Asiga Max UV and Asiga Pro 4K, which opens its availability to a lot more customers. I have found LDP resin perfect for immediate, partial, duplicate, and even definitive dentures. My confidence in printed dentures has since been confirmed. Additionally, Dentsply Sirona now offers a new product called Lucitone Digital Value that is used for try-in dentures, conversion dentures, diagnostic purpose, and printing economy teeth.

PANDA SMART

Panda Scanner

Eli Ganon

This revolutionary intraoral scanning device weighs just 138 g and delivers 1-minute scans with 7-μm accuracy. Packed with innovative software features, it offers undercut checks, margin line drawing, pre-preparation scans, bite checks, and disease course monitoring.

SECOND OPINION

Pearl

Sivan Finkel, DMD

Pearl's artificial intelligence helps us maximize the standardization of reading X-rays, spots pathology (periapical lesions and decay) before the human eye can detect them, and massively improves patient communication and case acceptance. It helps our laboratory partners by recognizing open margins and overhangs on existing restorations, highlights them in color, and makes the patient understand that they need to be replaced. It adds a layer of objectivity to our diagnoses, which is much needed in dentistry, because you can ask five dentists to analyze an X-ray and get five different opinions. In terms of recognizing infections, which necessitate either root canal therapy or an implant-either of which will require laboratory work-the human eye can only recognize approximately 30 to 40 shades of gray, while a computer can see 1,000.