Dentists To Take Up New Oral Scanner

Thu, 05 Feb 2009

Dentists across the UK will soon be able to get their hands on a new state-of-the-art dental scanner, which has been hailed as "the most significant change in dentistry in last 20 years'".

The 3M chairside scanner takes digital images from inside the mouth and emails them directly to the dental lab for crowns and bridges .

It was launched at the official opening of Dental Technology Services’ (DTS) new digital dental laboratory in Glasgow and demonstrated to onlookers by Glasgow dentist Jamie Newlands.

"This new technology is as significant to dentistry, as the move from 35mm film was to digital, in a photographic camera," he commented.

DTS has invested more than £2million into developing the digital dental laboratory and has the first oral scanner in the UK.

The Glaswegian company believes that the new technology will be "particularly useful to dentists in the Highlands and Islands and other outlying areas across the UK who could more easily send information to the dental lab by email".

Graham Littlejohn, of DTS, said he expects up to 200 dentists to implement the new technology in their practices by the end of the year.

The oral scanner will go on sale directly to dentists in the summer at a cost of around £15,000.
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