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“First we replaced the root by an implant, now we need to replace an analogue dental world by a digital one”

Prof Dr Daniel Wismeijer recently gave an interview to "Straumann Care Digital Solutions" about the future of dentistry.

Professor Wismeijer, what would be your own definition of “digital dentistry”?

Up to now, dentistry was mostly carried out in the “analogue” world: we examined X-rays on film,patient information was recorded on paper, models were waxed and analogue articulators were used. The stage we are in right now is that certain steps of the process are done digitally, but they are still “digital islands” in an analogue world. For example: parts of the treatment planning are carried out digitally in the virtual environment but the drill guide is still analogue.

Or we design the prosthetic model on a CAD station, but still need a physical model via rapid prototyping to test the fit of the crown. 

For reading the rest of the interview, please go to: Interview with Daniel Wismeijer