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Industry Trends
The future of dentistry
will be driven by data
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Copy Aleksandra Nyholm Images Planmeca Group DIGITAL dentistry has been the oft- side by side, hand in hand – generating
quoted “future of dentistry” for well more large amounts of data as they go.
than a decade – and with good reason. Solutions which depend on manual
Between then and now, new digital data entry to collect information
technologies have enabled same-day on treatment content and the time
Digital dentistry has been restorations of patient smiles, simplified used have long existed in the dental
talked about as the “future” workflows and patient communication, industry. Up until recent years, however,
of the industry for nearly two and, indeed, transformed diagnostic and the activities and operations during
decades. But as digital dental treatment practices in the dental office. treatment – such as chair times and
equipment use – have remained largely
However, as digital devices gradually
technology gradually goes become standard in the dental clinic, out of reach. In order to access and
from ‘new’ to ‘normal’ in the where is the industry heading next? What’s collect this data, it is important to choose
dental clinic, where is dentistry the new “future of dentistry”? technology that is ready to ‘go online’.
heading next? The answer is Harnessing IoT in dentistry In fact, Planmeca equipment has
likely to be found in one small, In the last few years, the Internet of Things long been designed with this in mind.
Our digital dental units, imaging devices
four-letter word – data. or IoT – essentially, devices exchanging and milling units have included network
data via a network – has become connectivity for more than a decade,
something of a buzzword, in dentistry as relaying data seamlessly to our powerful
elsewhere. Behind the buzz, however, lies Planmeca Romexis® software. All this
a real industrial shift towards ecosystems well before IoT even really became a
of network-based digital devices working talking point in the tech industry.
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