Desktop Well being has launched a brand new program for dentists designed to assist simplify the adoption of digital applied sciences to enhance observe effectivity and affected person care.
ScanUp was rolled out in November 2022, with a whole bunch of members – together with a number of DSOs similar to Western Dental and Smile Manufacturers – serving to to tell additional developments of the brand new program. Now, ScanUp has been made obtainable to the final dental market with members of this system receiving an iTero Factor Flex licensed pre-owned (CPO) scanner from Desktop Well being as a part of a subscription program for lab providers.
The ScanUp program has been designed to resolve a collection of challenges confronted by clinicians when trying to undertake digital dentistry. It’s believed that half of the dentists in the US haven’t but adopted intraoral scanning, for instance, due to the complexity of sewing collectively a digital workflow that may ship remaining restorations and different dental merchandise.
With ScanUp, dentists can subscribe to a program that gives an Align iTero Factor Flex CPO intraoral scanner, which serves – Desktop Well being believes – because the gateway to digital dentistry. Along with the scanner, subscribers of ScanUp will obtain licensed coaching and training which docs and practices can full at their very own tempo. Digital and analog lab providers and help are additionally supplied by ScanUp member labs, that are owned by or affiliated with Desktop Well being. Member labs already serve greater than 12,000 dentists nationwide by means of well-known group labs similar to Dental Arts Laboratory in Peoria, Illinois; Could Dental Arts in Fenton, Missouri; and Brewer Dental Lab in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
All ScanUp member labs are full-service digital + analog labs which might be able to 3D printing merchandise similar to Flexcera restorations and SmileGuard chunk splints, together with different digital merchandise. Flexcera and SmileGuard are supplies developed and offered by Desktop Well being, and they’re certified for 3D printing on Einstein household 3D printers, in addition to Carbon 3D techniques.
When dentists utilizing intraoral scanners are able to stage up their digital dentistry observe, they will undertake 3D printing with Desktop Well being Einstein printers, with digital design file help from ScanUp member labs. Or, they will design their very own printable information with CAD/CAM design software program by means of Align’s exocad ChairsideCAD platform.
Dental practices can be a part of the ScanUp ecosystem at any stage of their journey, no matter scanner mannequin.
“ScanUp solves an actual problem for dentists struggling to undertake digital dentistry with a streamlined, easy-to-access answer,” stated Lou Azzara, President of Desktop Well being and Desktop Labs. “We’re proud to launch the ScanUp program to help the digital dentistry journey of basic practitioner and household dentists for improved observe efficiencies and enhanced affected person experiences.”
“The iTero scanner might be an indispensable device for effectively reworking practices from analog to digital, serving to docs drive observe efficiencies, ship distinctive affected person outcomes and supply their sufferers with excellent experiences,” added Matt Miller, Vice President and Common Supervisor US, Align Know-how. “We’re excited in regards to the alternative for Desktop Well being to carry the advantages of the iTero Factor Flex scanner to Desktop Lab’s GP dentists throughout the U.S.”