Digital Impressioning Caveat…

November 18, 2009

As noted before, we are one of the few labs in the country who is designated to mark margins for other laboratories on Lava COS cases.

I have just spent the past 3 hours marking margins for 7 cases, several of which could not be marked accurately due to deficiencies in the scans.  Most notable is the lack of tissue/fluid control.  Beware – Blood, saliva and remnants of retraction cord show up as scanned data!

Ridiculous.

So, as much as I love the idea of digital impressions, if you can’t be bothered with tissue management, don’t waste your money or my time.  You’re not going to get any better result from a digital impression than you will from conventional methods…

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