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Clinical Applications of Digital Dental Technology
Comprehensive overview of digital dentistry describing available technologies and when/how to use digital dentistry in practice
Clinical Applications of Digital Dental Technology provides comprehensive yet practical references to a wide range of potential uses for digital technology in dental practice, discussing a wide range of digital technologies including their indications, contraindications, advantages, disadvantages, limitations, and applications. Overall, the book emphasizes how to use digital dentistry in daily practice across all specialties.
With broad coverage of the subject, Clinical Applications of Digital Dental Technology discusses digital imaging, digital impressions, digital prosthodontics, digital implant planning and placement, and digital applications in endodontics, orthodontics, and oral surgery. Each chapter is written by experts in each topic and covers applications for prosthodontics, implant dentistry, oral surgery, endodontics, orthodontics, and other specialty areas.
Clinical Applications of Digital Dental Technology also includes information on:
* Software, scanning, and manufacturing capabilities which have led to an unparalleled revolution leading to a major paradigm shift in all aspects of dentistry
* Digital radiography, virtual planning, computer-aided design and manufacturing, digital impressions, digitally fabricated dentures, and the "virtual patient"
* Available technologies, plus a critical evaluation of each one to detail how they are incorporated in daily practice across all specialties
* Developing technologies in the field with special attention paid to those expected to be on the market sometime in the near future
Clinical Applications of Digital Dental Technology is an essential resource for general dentists, specialists, and students who wish to understand digital dentistry and efficiently and intelligently incorporate it into their practices. The text is also useful for laboratory technicians interested in recent digital advances in the dental field.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1: Digital Imaging
Chapter 2: Digital Impressions
CHAPTER 3: Direct Digital Manufacturing
Chapter 4 Additive Manufacturing Procedures and Clinical Applications in Restorative Dentistry
Chapter 5 Dental Materials in the Digital Age
Chapter 6 Clinical Applications of Digital Technology in Fixed Prosthodontics
Chapter 7 Clinical Applications of Digital Dental Technology in Removable Prosthodontic
Chapter 8 Clinical Applications of Digital Dental Technology in Removable Partial Prosthodontics
Chapter 9 Clinical Applications of Digital Dental Technology in Implant Surgery: Computer-Aided Implant Surgery
Chapter 10 Clinical Applications of Digital Dental Technology in Implant Prosthodontics
Chapter 11 Virtual Articulators
Chapter 12 Digital Applications in Endodontics
Chapter 13 Clinical Applications of Digital Dental Technology in Orthodontics
Chapter 14 Clinical Applications of Digital Dental Technology in Maxillofacial Prosthodontics
Chapter 15 Clinical Applications of Digital Dental Technology in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
The Editors Radi Masri, BDS, MS, PhD, is a Wilson-Elkins Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He lectures nationally and internationally and serves as an external examiner for international dental schools in the field of prosthodontics.
Carl F. Driscoll, DMD, is a Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is a world renowned educator, lecturer, and prosthodontist. He has published extensively and contributed significantly to organized dentistry
