Implementing 3D Facial Scans into the Full Arch Digital Workflow: A Predictable Pathway for Surgical and Prosthetic Success.

Combining cone-beam computed tomography scans, intraoral jaw scans, and facial scans allow modern dentistry the ability to accurately create a virtual patient. The enormous emphasis on digital full arch implant workflow has spawned vast innovation, opening the doors for practitioners to treat the terminally dentate and edentulous patients with more efficiency, precision, and satisfaction. As every patient presents with different conditions, protocols must be developed to facilitate an accurate virtual patient.

3D Facial Scanning: Dual-Arch Fixed Prostheses From Diagnosis to Delivery.

Three-dimensional (3D) facial scanners can be used to effectively and accurately diagnose, treatment plan, design, and deliver dental prostheses. The use of 3D facial scanning enables clinicians to replicate a patient's face 3-dimensionally in various lip positions to facilitate full-arch dentistry. Digitally replicating the face gives the clinician and technician the ability to visualize different possible lip positions.