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40 news DENTAL TECHNOLOGY, JANUARY-MARCH 2023

EXOCAD PRESENTS NEW SOFTWARE RELEASES AT THE IDS IN COLOGNE

World premieres and many innovations at IDS 100 year anniversary

exocad, an Align Technology, Inc. company and a leading dental
CAD/CAM software provider, announced multiple new products and
service offerings, two limited-time software discounts, and a full spec-
trum of live education opportunities for attendees at the International
Dental Show (IDS) 2023. With 11 demo stations and hourly live smile
design sessions, exocad invited attendees to “Imagine the
CADabilities” and discover its many software solutions for labs and
clinics at the company’s newly branded booth in Koelnmesse’s hall 1.
exocad’s Smile Creator Experience, the step-by-step live demo on how
to use Smile Creator, took center stage as visitors stopped by to see the
smile design process in person and ask the team of experts questions.
New products and services
At IDS, exocad introduced the final three releases of its 3.1 Rijeka soft-
ware series: exoplan 3.1 Rijeka, for prosthetic-driven implant plan-
ning and surgical guide design, ChairsideCAD 3.1 Rijeka, for single-
visit dentistry, and PartialCAD 3.1 Rijeka, for partial framework
design.
The new software solutions include all the hallmarks of exocad
software– stability, robustness, ease of use and an open architecture
that allows seamless workflows and smooth integrations with users’ Team exocad at the new branded booth
hardware of choice.

New AI-enhanced visualization for patient acceptance Attendees showed
Attendees showed great interest in the presentation of two upcoming, great interest in the
highly innovative software solutions for patient acceptance. With presentation of two
TruSmile Video, a new anterior tooth design is presented in a short upcoming, highly
video that shows the Smile Creator design, AI technology generates a innovative software
realistic video to help increase patient understanding of potential solutions for patient
treatment outcomes. Visitors were captivated by the realism of the AI acceptance: TruSmile
patient videos and the new possibilities they offer. Video and 3D Face
The newly developed 3D face scan app enables realistic 3D scans of Scan App. Both
patients’ faces via a mobile phone camera, without any additional products were
hardware. The camera is used to scan each patient's face in the app, shown to the public
and the AI-based software calculates a detailed 3D model, which is for the first time at
then loaded into the Smile Creator software. This makes 3D face scan- IDS as a sneak pre-
ning an affordable and accessible alternative to using photos for smile view of the future of
design. smile design.
exocad names its releases after EU “European Capitals of Culture”
and selected the Croatian city of Rijeka for this release cycle

LAB PRODUCT INNOVATIONS AT THE IDS 2023

The 40th International Dental Show (IDS) from 14 with known digital workflows, both in terms of the ty and quality and deliver faster to the dentists and
to 18 March 2023 was characterised by an incredible software and the substances. patients.
number of innovations in the dental lab product Meanwhile, new milling machines are bringing a Dental 3D printing is becoming faster and more
segment. higher level of milling speed and precision for den- efficient. The intelligent nesting of several compo-
Many tasks in the prosthetic workflow are tal laboratories due to innovative real-time control nents on one single construction platform enables
becoming faster and more accurate. New this. The objects are automatically arranged
wax blanks enable aesthetic try-ins and can optimally, the function is embedded in the
be waxed-up in the patient's mouth. software and works without having to be
As such, the coordination between the den- exported beforehand – and on top of that a
tist and the laboratory functions more new printer was presented at IDS with com-
smoothly. patible post-processing units.
A new extraoral scanner allows two A fast milling machine in the practice has
models to be scanned at once. For example, the potential to reduce waiting times and
the dental technician places a model of the the number of sessions. And a Cloud that
upper jaw and one of the lower jaw on each can allow relevant data beyond the practice
of the two scan plates and clicks on the start and the laboratory to be shared also with the
button. The scan is completed in ten sec- patient, allows the latter to co-make and co-
onds and after two minutes the digital take the responsibility for well-founded
models are ready for use in the design soft- decisions in the sense of "informed con-
ware. In comparison to scanning two mod- sent".
els consecutively, this is three times faster. In the aligner therapy section a new com-
Alternatively, impressions can be scanned posite with the appropriate flowability
instead of models; in this case the scanning enables the precise filling of the template -
time takes 45 seconds. no excess material, no lacking material, the
The simultaneous scanner operates using two technology - the milling times are 30% faster than right positioning. The fluorescence in the UV-A
optical lighting units and eight cameras. The scan- usual! Whereby the quality of the surface is much light helps with all of this: Artifacts, excess materials
ning accuracy is stated to be 5 µm (pursuant to ISO better than that achieved by manual refinishing. In and residues are made visible and can be removed
12836) and the further processing occurs in line this way, laboratories can increase their productivi- quickly without harming the enamel.