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to their library to make it easy to pick The scanner is very fast and
what you like to use in your practice.” lightweight. You wouldn’t think
weight is a big thing, but it’s
You've used the Planmeca something you have to touch and
PlanScan® intraoral scanner quite feel to understand. When you pick
a bit and it was also featured in a the scanner up, it’s as if you are
study you published last year with holding nothing. It flows and moves
several of your fellow academics. in the mouth unlike any other
What do you consider the scanner I’ve had a privilege to use.”
scanner's main strengths to be?
“Planmeca PlanScan has been Going forward, how do you
probably the best quadrant scanner see intraoral scanning evolving
on the market. It excels at bread and in general? For example, in
butter general dentistry. The scanner terms of the available range of
is super accurate at smaller scan indications beyond crowns and
ratios. Due to this accuracy, it can be orthopaedics.
used for precision-fit restorations. “There are no limitations to what
That’s where it excels best. you can do with intraoral scanning.
I do full-mouth reconstructions
You know, they increased the and large implant cases with it.
scan speeds dramatically with But diagnostically, it’s also good to
just a software update. It’s pretty just take baseline scans of patients
remarkable. In my experience, it’s at coming in. It takes under two
least double. That means the older minutes to scan a full arch, so why
scanner is now pretty much in line not take digital records of where a
with all the newer scanners in the patient is at that point in time? It’ll
market – so it’s very, very nice that allow you can re-scan and analyse
that’s just a software update. In down the road. I really see physical
addition to that, they’re working on impressions going completely out
really nice abutment and scan body of the average dentist’s practice
platforms that could be used for within 10 years.” ▟
single-visit implant restorations.”
In turn, the new Planmeca
Emerald™ scanner was released
last year and you’ve been using
it right from the start. What have
your impressions on the new
scanner been?
“Planmeca Emerald is your full
arch workhorse scanner. Whereas
Planmeca PlanScan I really like for
scanning quadrants and things like
that, I feel like Planmeca Emerald has
been designed from the ground up
for full-arch scanning – and it does it
remarkably well.
Dr. Walter Renne
Associate Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
Department of Oral Rehabilitation
Division of Restorative Dentistry
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