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As a dentist who mainly sees patients who have been with the practice for 30 plus years, their kids, and grandkids, I must say that I do very little full quadrant, let alone full mouth work. We try very hard to help our patients keep all their teeth.
Periodically, though, I get the patient who has had a lifetime of dentistry and is interested in the total transformation.
How is that working in the digital workflow? Traditional C&B, not All-on-X which has major advantages in (mostly) full digital. Impressions, facebow, waxup, scan, print presentation model? Make a wearable waxup / snap on smile type appliance? For that many crowns is design and mill manageable? Easier than pressing a bunch of emax? Are digital articulators viable? How about the new techniques of scanning the patient's face with something to position the models in it? Does that help the lab see the patient, or is a real photo better?
I find myself wondering if it would be better to continue to do it all analog the old way with a lab who has a track record for full mouth, or work with a lab who may be learning some of all of this along with me. Sometimes learners have better attention to detail... At least I feel like I do.
Are any of you guys full digital workflow for most, but old school for FMR? Anyone totally digital (maybe printed models) past the scan? Anyone doing FMR from IOS??? That would blow my mind.
Periodically, though, I get the patient who has had a lifetime of dentistry and is interested in the total transformation.
How is that working in the digital workflow? Traditional C&B, not All-on-X which has major advantages in (mostly) full digital. Impressions, facebow, waxup, scan, print presentation model? Make a wearable waxup / snap on smile type appliance? For that many crowns is design and mill manageable? Easier than pressing a bunch of emax? Are digital articulators viable? How about the new techniques of scanning the patient's face with something to position the models in it? Does that help the lab see the patient, or is a real photo better?
I find myself wondering if it would be better to continue to do it all analog the old way with a lab who has a track record for full mouth, or work with a lab who may be learning some of all of this along with me. Sometimes learners have better attention to detail... At least I feel like I do.
Are any of you guys full digital workflow for most, but old school for FMR? Anyone totally digital (maybe printed models) past the scan? Anyone doing FMR from IOS??? That would blow my mind.