CAD-Ray articles

One of the most challenging designs to do chairside is the design of a multi unit temporary that needs to be printed. This is incredibly time consuming as you spent significant amount of time just marking margins on a dozen units.  With this technique pioneered by CAD-Ray you can bypass the margination step and design a large case in about a minute.

The clash of the titans are in full effect.  We are not smart enough to understand all the dynamics of patented software and hardware. While we let the manufacturers sort it out, we wanted to demonstrate how the new mandibular jaw movements are captured in Meditlink

Many scanners limit the number of scans you can take on a patient.  This becomes cumbersome when you want to image pre-existing conditions, tissue scans for implantology, and other advanced needs

With version 3.0 in Meditlink software, launched in October of 2022, you can import or scan multiple models in the same patient chart

There is a concept in digital dentistry that is called “mixing good and bad data”.  What you have to appreciate is that two different objects can’t occupy the same space in the same 3D model.  The clinical example of this is when you pack 2 cords, image the margins, then remove the top cord and image the preparation some more.

This introduces a lot of errors and distortion at the margins. You either have to image with 2 cords retracting the tissue at once o

In this presentation we detail the implant suprastructure identification system where an existing abutment is removed and scanned extra-orally to capture the margins readily after the abutment is anodized.