Did that ring a bell?

Yes, owning an intraoral scanner does NOT make one a ‘digital dentist’.

A true digital dentist is someone who embraces digital technology as part of scientific and clinically acceptable dental techniques using a complete ‘digital’
ecosystem.

The difference lies in how a digital dentist thinks, analyses, and uses the full potential of digital tools in his routine practice: examining, planning, communicating, and manufacturing dental products.

You’ll be surprised to know that hundreds of dentists use intraoral scanners for recording impressions worldwide, and that is it. Only a handful take a step further and integrate digital tools for diagnosis, treatment planning, and lab communication.

It’s funny but true, digital dentist thinks in pixels, not just teeth.

They collaborate on platforms that allow real-time design feedback, understand digital materials, and explore and monitor digital productions and milling options.

The symposium brought to light this distinction in more than one way. Case studies and hands-on workshops in the dental symposium really got the attending dental practitioners into the thick of things happening in digital dentistry’ today.