Conventional vs Digital Impressions
No more goop, gagging, or discomfort. Using an iTero scanner, your orthodontist can take a highly accurate digital impression of your teeth and jaw. The new technology eliminates the tray and putty impressions, where the experience is comparable to stuffing a big wad of gum in your mouth. The old technique is incredibly unpleasant and frequently results in multiple rounds of impressions that can be rejected, broken, or misplaced. The iTero scanner ensures a more accurate impression, improving treatment and a more comfortable patient experience. Digital impressions also allow you to see your teeth instantly in 3D, improving communication during the consultation and treatment.
How Does it Work?
The iTero scanner digitally captures the structure of teeth and gums using the latest optical technology. It is a compact, hand-held wand. Once your orthodontist begins scanning, it can be stopped and started as often as necessary.
Your mouth is scanned with a radiation-free laser, and in as little as two to three minutes, the laser renders a digitally perfect, 3D impression of your teeth and soft tissue structures. Through digital software, you'll then be able to follow the progress of the scans, including a 3D model of your teeth on our computer screen. The iTero scanner can be used for any orthodontic treatment, including Invisalign®.
In-House 3D Printing with SprintRay Pro
With this treatment, aligners are often created offsite and shipped to our office, where we distribute them to you. However, using our own SprintRay 3D printing capabilities, we can cut out the middleman and create your aligners right here in our office, enabling you to begin treatment sooner and saving you a considerable amount of time waiting for new aligners during your treatment.
To begin your clear aligner treatment, we will generate digital models of your mouth and upload the data into our treatment planning software. From there, we will formulate a treatment plan, addressing the specific movement of each tooth to attend to your smile and bite issues. Once your treatment plan is complete, we will print your first set of aligners and begin your smile transformation.
Aligners created with our SprintRay 3D printer are made of the same material as traditional aligners, making them as strong, clear, and effective as their more time-consuming and expensive counterparts. Plus, we can re-print a new set if your treatment plan ever needs to be adjusted or you misplace one of your aligners.
