Cosmetic Dentistry, General Dental Practice in Calgary

iTero Digital Impression System

A new smile. A new you.

The Aesthetic Dental Studio strives to provide excellent dental care while ensuring maximum convenience, comfort, and speed for you. As part of our commitment, we are happy to utilize the iTero Digital Impression System to replace traditional impressions in creating your dental crowns, bridges, and implants. This system was featured by Dr. Chee on Global TV News.

The iTero Digital Impression System has many benefits for you, including:

• Increased comfort
• Faster impression times
• Accurate fit

The iTero Digital Impression System gives you a comfortable experience  during your dental restoration process.

Traditional Impressions

Taking an impression is an important part of crafting dental restorations. In order to ensure that a restoration fits precisely into your bite without causing neuromuscular tension or damaging other teeth, the restoration must be custom-crafted for the space, and the only way to do that is to have a precise image of the mouth.

Traditionally, impressions were taken by putting a viscous liquid in the mouth. Sometimes the liquid was a rubber-like polyvinyl material and sometimes it was a pasty alginate material. The main characteristics of the material used were that it had to flow into voids and be able to be cured solid.  Many people have negative reactions to the material used for making the impression, including nausea or gagging. Others dislike the length of time necessary to wait for the curing of the material and the bad taste. These problems are all remedied by the iTero Digital Impression System.

 With the iTero Digital Impression System, you don't need to have any goo put in your mouth. Instead, your dentist will utilize a compact wand that scans your teeth in passes. The computer then assembles the images from these passes into a 3-dimensional digital image of your teeth. At this point, your dentist can make any necessary adjustments to ensure your restoration fits your needs. Then the digital impression is transmitted via wireless internet to the laboratory, where a model is milled, then used to make the final, high-quality restoration using the same methods that were used to turn other impressions into restorations. The end result is a precisely-crafted dental restoration with no uncomfortable impression. Digital impressions are also far more accurate than traditional impressions as they are not subject to distortion, bubbles, temperature changes, or ill-fitting impression trays.

If you are interested in getting your dental restorations with digital impressions, please contact the Aesthetic Dental Studio today for an appointment.