Do any of you who work in labs/etc and Receive digital scans with 2+ different branded scan bodies who process them to print your own models in house have issues with the fit of your analogs when you print a single model due to the spacing requirements on the analog offset vs printing separate models?
Two totally hypothetical examples:
Ex. A) Dr. X scans #19 with TruAbutment scan body, also scans # 30 with DentaSwiss scanbody.
Ex. B) Dr. X scans case with #9 TruAbutment and #7 with DentaSwiss scan bodies for a bridge case.
- Lab builds case A as two separate models fabs case no issue due to ability to cut model where needed and make it work as two files.
- Lab builds case B as one model, depending on the brand of the scanbody model builder has different offsets for analog spacing and can't get both analogs to fit correctly in model. Either one or the other will fit accurately where the other has a loose/tight fit and doesn't work.
How do you get around this, outside of asking the doctor to use all the same brand scan body? Not every doctor wants to replace their scan bodies when their previous ones are still functional. Is this just still a problem when it comes to mixed use on implant scans? Taking all suggestions using 3Shape, Exocad, Meshmixer, whatever. Just curious on a functional solution that doesn't require either the doctor to change their process or us to just print a model, make a pvs template and make it in an unconventional conventional way.
Thanks in advance! I hope I explained this clearly enough; I will cross-post this into another forum as well, but I thought this would be a good place to start since it's pretty relevant to the convo and crowd.