2020 Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages 325-329
Digital dentistry has fundamentally changed the quality and safety of dental care and the workflow of dental practice.
For implant treatments, digitalization has dramatically expanded the use of prior information and changed treatment protocols, shortening treatment times and reducing the number of surgeries, resulting in minimally invasive treatments. In the field of restorations and prosthetics, the advent of strong and highly aesthetic materials has reduced damages to healthy natural dentitions. In the field of orthodontic treatments, aligners are created using digital data from intraoral scanners. In addition, dentists are beginning to process the data and use it for making presentations to patients.
As digitalization advances further, dentists may rethink their own role.
