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What Does Smile Design Software Do?

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  Imagine having the smile you always dreamed of. The one you always admired on other people and wanted so badly for yourself. Well, good news, that is what smile design software does. All you need to do is visit your dentist and get it, your perfect smile. So, What Does Smile Design Software Do Exactly? Smile design software is a dental procedure that makes whiter, straighter and natural-looking smiles. It is used to restore your dental appearance regardless of the original state of your tooth. It modifies your smile by only using images and videos, allowing you to visualise your new smile before the actual treatment begins. How Smile Design Software Works The software uses photos, videos, mock-ups, and your dental and facial proportions to get details, such as gums, lips, and teeth, to create the perfect smile. Benefits of The Smile Design Software The software offers incredible predictability. You can predict how your smile will look before you even undergo treatment. The smile ...

What does a Dental Digital Scanner Do?

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  Dental digital scanners are also called intraoral scanners. An intraoral scanner is a device that captures a direct oral impression. Just like the name, it scans your teeth. The device projects a light source onto the area to be scanned, and images are captured by imaging sensors. They are then processed in scanning software to produce a 3D surface model. Intraoral scanning devices are used for therapeutic and preventive care. They can capture 3D high-resolution images and create records of the complex and soft tissues to monitor oral disease and conditions. Basically, they create a digital impression, improve diagnostics and create digital records. For digital impression, the scanner projects the source of light laser to scan the teeth or objects such as dental arches, implant scan bodies or prepared teeth. Images captured are both of hard and soft tissues and restorations. Software generating point clouds process the image. The point clouds generate representations of the exist...

What Counts as a Dental Emergency?

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  Your tooth is aching. It is so painful that you can’t concentrate on anything or sleep. Painkillers aren’t even working. But here is the thing, it is in the middle of the night or weekend or holiday. Most dental services are closed, so what do you do? Is this a dental emergency or not? When this happens, you are most likely to call for an emergency dentist. But the question is, what counts as a dental emergency? There is a difference between the usual dental issues and a dental emergency. Usual dental issues can wait until regular working hours, but emergencies can’t, so what counts as an emergency? First, you have to determine whether it can wait till regular hours or not. To resolve this, you need to ask yourself a few questions; Have you lost your tooth? Can it be saved? How severe is your tooth pain? Are you bleeding? Is the tooth loose? A dental emergency consists of issues related to severe pain, bleeding or saving a tooth. So, what are the common dental emergencies? Knocke...