How to Choose the Right Intraoral Scanner to Upgrade Your Dental Practice

When choosing the 3D intraoral scanner for your dental practice, the key factors can be considered are image quality, scanning speed, easy operation, cost, warranty for enhancing the treatment experience.

 

Following the trend of going digital in dentistry, now more and more dental clinics have applied 3D intraoral scanner into dental practice. Scanner is one of the most important investment for dentists to help enhance treatment efficiency. Here are some top tips to consider how to choose your right 3D scanner and maximize patient service satisfaction.

 

1. Image Quality

Getting clear pictures is the first concern for purchasing the scanner. Precision is highly important for getting accurate diagnosis of patients' reports. A scanner with low image quality will not be able to match the scanning data perfectly with the patient's teeth shape, which can waste a lot of time. So better try operating to test the scanner image quality or refer to the pixels data before making an decision.

 

2. Scanning Speed

Scanning speed is a feature that most dentists will focus on when choosing a scanner. Scanners that are fast and efficient to generate completed data in minutes can reduce the lab turnaround times, and will be certainly beneficial for clinics treatment in the long run. Most intraoral scanners full arch scan can be finished in 60-120s and you can choose based on your need.

 

3. Easy Operation

Choosing a user-friendly scanner can save dentists much energy. It involves the software which is ready to set up and easy to manage the 3D image processing. Meanwhile, it should maximize the doctors comfort with light weight and ergonomic design. The size of the tips is also important for fitting in different patients' mouths for accurate scanning. Now most scanner models can offer standard and mini tips size for choice.  

 

4. Cost

​The prices of intraoral scanners vary significantly by suppliers, brands, and sometimes promotions. Choose which scanner brings the highest return on investment to your practice by reviewing all the factors. Apart from the price, some digital scanners may require additional fees for software subscriptions, training, auxiliary equipment. Always check for the hidden expenses involving operation and maintenance before your purchase.

 

5. Warranty

After-sale support is also a key factor to ensure your investment for the device is protected. Since the scanner is the important tool in dentists' daily work, all the questions you have during operation should be solved by professional suppliers for more effecient working. It's essential to find out the basic warranty covers and understand the support terms.

 

In order to assist dentists' treatment in digital age, Vimel dental has launched intraoral scanners with excellent image quality and up-to-date function. Our scanners are based on supreme user-friendly design with forever free software system, and ergonomic scanner tips for operation comfort, which is beneficial for both dentists and patients. Moreover, our team are dedicated to offering professional support to our clients for all their inquiries and questions. 

 

For more details please refer to the links below:

Runyes scanner: https://www.vimeldental.com/products/runyes-dental-digital-3d-intraoral-scanner.html

Eco scanner: https://www.vimeldental.com/products/dental-digital-3d-eco-scanner.html