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Review
. 2020 Apr 23;13(8):1982.
doi: 10.3390/ma13081982.

3D Digital Impression Systems Compared with Traditional Techniques in Dentistry: A Recent Data Systematic Review

Marco Cicciù  1 , Luca Fiorillo  1 , Cesare D'Amico  1 , Dario Gambino  1 , Emanuele Mario Amantia  1 , Luigi Laino  2 , Salvatore Crimi  3 , Paola Campagna  3 , Alberto Bianchi  3 , Alan Scott Herford  4 , Gabriele Cervino  1
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Review

3D Digital Impression Systems Compared with Traditional Techniques in Dentistry: A Recent Data Systematic Review

Marco Cicciù et al. Materials (Basel). .

Abstract

The advent of new technologies in the field of medicine and dentistry is giving improvements that lead the clinicians to have materials and procedures able to improve patients' quality of life. In dentistry, the last digital techniques offer a fully digital computerized workflow that does not include the standard multiple traditional phases. The purpose of this study is to evaluate all clinical trials and clinical randomized trials related to the digital or dental impression technique in prosthetic dentistry trying to give the readers global information about advantages and disadvantages of each procedure. Data collection was conducted in the main scientific search engines, including articles from the last 10 years, in order to obtain results that do not concern obsolete impression techniques. Elsevier, Pubmed and Embase have been screened as sources for performing the research. The results data demonstrated how the working time appears to be improved with digital workflow, but without a significant result (P = 0.72596). The papers have been selected following the Population Intervention Comparison Outcome (PICO) question, which is related to the progress on dental impression materials and technique. The comparison between dentists or practitioners with respect to classic impression procedures, and students open to new device and digital techniques seem to be the key factor on the final impression technique choice. Surely, digital techniques will end up supplanting the analogical ones altogether, improving the quality of oral rehabilitations, the economics of dental practice and also the perception by our patients.

Keywords: dental; dental impression materials; dental impression technique; diagnosis; digital workflow; oral; prosthodontics; technology.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

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PRISMA flow chart.
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Figure 2
Analysis of Variance between digital and conventional impression techniques. Vertical axis: time in seconds; Horizontal axis: groups.
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Figure 3
Risk of Bias according to Cochrane reviews.
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Figure 4
Sample of computers planning and realization of prosthodontics structure before starting the treatment over patients.
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Figure 5
Sample of new devices like 3D printing for having dental threedimensional model.
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