Dentalcompare
Clinical Director
Traditionally after you have taken that impression of a crown prepartion, and everything looks ok, your assistant hands you a lab slip sometime later in the day to fill out. Depending on how busy the day is, it might not get filled out until the next day. Then you have to wait for either the lab delivery person to show up, or the UPS guy, or the FedEx driver, to show up to grab the package. At this point, you have no idea whether or not the box will be smashed, or sit in a hot truck in a parking lot warping the impression, much less get lost altogether.
With the iTero, I didnt worry about any of that. After you do the scans for a particular patient, the top menu screen allows you to set your lab, as well as every other detail that shows up on your regular lab prescription slip. There is even a place to make specific notes to the lab technician. Then…press send. Thats it. All the info of the prescription and the scans get sent to Cadent for processing, and eventually to the lab. Done. That's it. Go home.
Two weeks later, the case will arrive on your doorstep. Next Episode: The models.