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Orthodontics in the Digital Age Faster Treatment Times and a More Comfortable Experience BY ASTRID TISSERONT
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echnology continues to enhance our lives everyday, whether it be wearable technology like the Fitbit to help us stay healthy or robotic limbs to help a person walk again. Technology has also enhanced the world of Orthodontics, and we all should be jumping for joy!
INTRA-ORAL SCANNERS
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No more messy molds, no more gag reflex problems! Do you remember taking impressions of your teeth with that goopy, putty material when you first got braces? Well, dental professionals no longer need to use this alginate material with the proliferation of intra-oral scanners (essentially intra-oral rapid cameras) on the market today. Imaging technology has advanced to a point that now intra-oral scanners are becoming lightening fast and can be used in place of