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State of the Art of Digital Technologies Applied in Daily Dental practice

These articles represent the first of a series of annual collections from the Digital Dentistry Society, the affiliated society of BMC Oral Health.  This collection focuses on the latest modern advances in the field of digital dentistry covering the digital workflow of prosthodontics, guided implant surgery, intraoral scanners and cone beam computed tomography.

This collection of articles has not been sponsored and articles have undergone the journal’s standard peer-review process

  1. In implant dentistry, three-dimensional (3D) imaging can be realised by dental cone beam computed tomography (CBCT), offering volumetric data on jaw bones and teeth with relatively low radiation doses and cost...

    Authors: Reinhilde Jacobs, Benjamin Salmon, Marina Codari, Bassam Hassan and Michael M. Bornstein
    Citation: BMC Oral Health 2018 18:88
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Nowadays implant placement protocols are widespread among clinicians all over the world. However, available literature, only partially analyses what can be potential benefits for the clinicians and patients, o...

    Authors: Marco Colombo, Carlo Mangano, Eitan Mijiritsky, Mischa Krebs, Uli Hauschild and Thomas Fortin
    Citation: BMC Oral Health 2017 17:150
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  3. Intraoral scanners (IOS) are devices for capturing direct optical impressions in dentistry. The purpose of this narrative review on the use of IOS was to: (1) identify the advantages/disadvantages of using opt...

    Authors: Francesco Mangano, Andrea Gandolfi, Giuseppe Luongo and Silvia Logozzo
    Citation: BMC Oral Health 2017 17:149
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