Digital Impression And Digital Occlusion: Emerging Technology in Prosthodontics

As master diagnosticians and endpoint providers, prosthodontists have become leaders in adopting an evidence‐based approach to assess new strategies in the delivery of services to our patients. The process, however, has required a renaissance of thinking and breaking down old, well established models and principles as we assess quantum changes in such fields as implant dentistry, maxillofacial prosthetics, all‐ceramic restorations and digital applications. While thousands of dentists and technicians have integrated digital technologies into their practices and laboratories over the past decade, thousands more have yet to take more than a first step. Thus, today’s prosthodontists share a great responsibility, and a greater privilege, to lead the digital dentistry revolution both in research and in practice, and to continue to move dreams to the drawing table, and then to reality.The coming years will surely bring exponential change to the entire field of prosthodontics and how we embrace those changes will define our specialty.