OHH well, what Can I say?
First Thanks you guys for the good comments.
I do have produce over 40 000 bars with diffrent technology (scanner speaking).
You can understand we are not dumb people and if a scanner like a 3shape/dental wings/smartoptic/medit/optimet/etc could scan precicely for us to mill a bar, do you really think that today Panthera Dental would have invest over 1 milions $$ just in scanner technology? No i would have bought 3-4 dental scanners. But i didn't.
Scanning for a multi-implant solution is not something simple. As soon as you get into what i call "table-top" scanner you start to insert alots of problem.
First you have to scan a "scan body" that was produce by who? with what quality control? so just here let's assume that we have a top of the top scan body of 5um precision. Well we add +5um to the final precision.
Then, you have to match your scan body with a 3D file from a library done by who? and how? again here you can add more less 5-10um precision because of bad design of library. Because we all know you don't have the official technical design of the nobel implant let's say, so someone somewhere have used reverse engeneering to deisgn it and this someone might have done few mistakes here and there, who know, well you take the chance they didn't.
THen after, even with a HUGE scanner, on what you gonna put it? A plastic table? a wooden table? or like real industrial on a marble that weight over 800 pounds? Why doing that, well at 5um precision just walk by your scanner and probably that you just add 100um error just by walking during the scanning procedure. And to understand the test, take any cheap photo camera, zoom at maxium put it on a table and walk around it and look into the screen, it will shake, now imagine your scanner.
Steinbishler is a good company, we did look into this solution back with Biocad but we looked for the real thing, but today we found that they were not precice enough for us. We wanted the best to offer the best to customer.
That why we got a scanner of 1 nanometer precision that scan in color without any scanning body and powder.
I challenge anybody here to bring your well beloved bar produce with your dental scanner and put it next to one of mine under a microscope (NO YOU DONT HAVE MAGICAL EYE and you need MICROSCOPE when you want to talk quality) and tell me if I was wrong to invest this amount of money.
I will be in Chicago and anybody that want to meet me for whatever the reason are welcome to PM me (i dont have a booth there by the way)
Oh finaly, with the years now, I have realized a special skill that some lab have it is a +100um precision skill; as soon as they acquire their own technology to produce a piece the quality just increase. In fact they just cannot admit that they have invest many $$ in a technology behind a real milling center. But a majority can assume that indeed there better outside but for them what it produce is enough.
It all like car, a KIA will get you from A to B, but a Mercedes let's say will do it faster, more comfortable and safer.
Hope you will all have a great time in Chicago, hope many of you will want to meet me, and hope more that many of you will do business with me.
Oh and I AM FDA approved and no you don't need a lab to be also FDA approve to buy my product made in Canada.
Best regards all.