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Digital
Impressions

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Marketing Impact
■ Increases referrals and new patient flow
■ Imparts cutting-edge image
■ Generates other treatment spinoffs
■ Engages patient in the treatment process

Marketing Impact
■ Increases new patient flow
■ Imparts leading-edge image
■ Engages patient in the treatment process
Clinical Efficiency
■ Eliminates several impression steps
■ Real-time review of digital impression
■ Quicker lab turnaround
■ Reduce seating time by as much as
50 percent

Clinical Excellence
■ Eliminates voids/tears/distortion
■ Eliminates stone model discrepancies
■ Seating is more predictable
■ Lowers remake rate
■ 3-D magnification improves preps
■ 360° Prep visualization
■ Measures optimal occlusal reduction
■ Reduce remakes. With digital impressions,
remakes are 0.5 percent; or 80 percent
less than industry average

■ Eliminate impression retakes, especially
helpful with multiple units

Overhead Expense Offset
■ Eliminates conventional impression cost
■ Reduces labor
■ Stores impressions digitally
■ Eliminates disinfection process
■ Eliminates boxing and shipping
■ Savings of $100.00 or more per

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Increased Patient Acceptance
■ Enhances patient co-diagnosis
■ Increases inlay, onlay, and crown
acceptance

Improved Service Mix Economics
■ Converts some operative to inlays/onlays
■ Increases overall crown acceptance
■ Increases quadrants vs. single units
■ Improved production $ per hour
■ Improved production $ per visit
Clinical Efficiency
■ Less labor required
■ Emergency appointment accomodation
■ Cuts chair time (one appointment)
■ Eliminates lab remakes
■ Eliminates temporaries
■ One visit vs. two-visit appointments
■ Dentist controls lab output
Overhead Expense Offset
■ Offsets outside lab bills
■ With volume, cuts per-unit cost
■ Offsets outside lab remakes
■ Offsets business labor expense
(single appointment)

■ Offsets dental assistant labor expense
(single appointment)

single-unit crown

Greater Patient Comfort
and Speed
■ Improves patient experience
■ Enhances patient convenience
■ Comfortable digital impression
■ No gagging from impression material
■ Shorter time frame for temporary wear
Dentist/Staff Morale Booster
■ Lowers stress
■ Keeps up with evolving technologies
■ More profitable and efficient practice
■ PPO participation efficiencies
■ Enjoyment of latest technology

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Digital Technology Review

Greater Patient Comfort
and Speed
■ Single-appointment convenience
■ Eliminates temporaries
■ Eliminates conventional impressions
Dentist/Staff Morale Booster
■ Keeps up with evolving technologies
■ Greater case acceptance with
decreased frustration

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More profitable and efficient practice
PPO participation efficiencies
Elevates dental assistant status/career
Expanded procedure mix enjoyment
Enjoyment of latest technology
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