Intraoral Scanners- New Era in Impression Making: A Review Article

There has been a long-term shift in the healthcare industry towards digitising patient data collecting and information. The same is true of orthodontics. A shift with a "DIGITAL" patient for diagnosis, planning of treatment, evaluation of treatment progress, and for final outcome, virtual technology is becoming more and more popular and readily available for replacing hard-copy data with electronic records. The constraints of traditional plaster models for planning of treatment, fabrication of appliance, and simulated treatment results can be replaced with three-dimensional digital models of dental arches. Indirect bonding trays, aligners, other dental products are all made using intraoral scanners. The main benefit of carring an intraoral scanner is that it reduces or completely eliminate the need to send poured models or imprints to the lab.