Dental appointments are getting shorter mainly because digital tools now do in minutes what used to take much longer with manual methods, from imaging and impressions to designing and even producing restorations chairside. Digital scanners, faster imaging systems, computer-aided design and manufacturing, and improved practice software all shave time off…

Three-dimensional dental imaging gives dentists a complete spatial view of teeth, roots, nerves and bone that traditional flat X-rays simply cannot provide, allowing treatment decisions to be based on far more precise information. Instead of estimating depth and angle from a two-dimensional image, a dentist can rotate and examine a…