Latest Technologies
Our latest investment in you – the most important person in our practice!
In addition to digital radiographic equipment, we have made another significant investment in you our patients and are proud that we are one of the first U.K. dental practices to offer our own in-house state-of-the-art dental cone beam computerised tomography (CT) scanner 3D imaging. This has a multitude of clinical applications including dental implant planning, and assessment of wisdom tooth/impacted teeth, gum disease and root canal anatomy.
This Ewoo Vatech cone beam CT scanner has the following benefits to you as our patients and to dentists referring patients for scans from other practices:
* Multiple field of view: depending on clinical application can show the full jaws in one scan or reduce exposure to as little as 5x5cm to minimise dose:
* Minimal radiation dose compared to hospital based scanning machines
* Fast and convenient, in-house scanning
* Enables efficient, safe implant planning, especially useful where bone available is limited, with close proximity to nerves or sinus anatomy.
* Enables “same-day teeth”: implant bridges fitted the same day as implants placed – the ultimate in patient convenience!
* Allows the highest standards in comprehensive diagnosis
* We welcome referrals from local practitioners for cone beam CT scans and can provide the DICOM format image files on disk for the patient to take the same day. Please contact us for further details on this exciting new equipment.
Images below show actual implant planning cases completed using specialised 3D implant planning software called Simplant by a Belgian company called Materialise. The 3D Cone Beam CT data from our scanner can be translated into the Simplant software, allowing precision planning and treatment. For more details, please click here or ask us to show you some similar cases.