Launch of Dental System 09
Copenhagen, Denmark - October 19th, 2009 - 3Shape A/S, a global leader in CAD/CAM technology, today announced the release of its highly innovative Dental System™ 2009 software that surpasses all versatility and performance norms for modern Dental Labs and Dental offices.
This new feature-packed software solution results from the exceptional innovation of 3Shape's more than 50 full-time developers, all dedicated solely to creating dental solutions. The 2009 3Shape Dental System™ contains many significant feature additions, such as a larger range of dental indications, unique Adaptive Impression Scanning, along with enhanced design efficiency and unlimited free-form modeling flexibility.
3Shape's Adaptive Impression Scanning represents a huge leap in digital dentistry. When teamed with 3Shape's advanced D700 impression scanner, the 3Shape DentalSystem™ delivers high quality impression scans for immediate digitization, representing a unique opportunity for model work process optimization and cost savings for labs and dentists. With Adaptive Impression Scanning, incomplete areas are automatically identified and rescanned resulting in unmatched precision within the final model. Impression scanning enables the scanning of post & core, an impossibility on traditional gypsum scanners due to the narrow post.
«We have scanned several hundred impressions from our daily production and we are very excited about the impression scanning», Says Director Laurie Littlejohn, DTS International.
But there is more. 3Shape's DentalSystem™ 2009 features a new intuitive interface, and a wide array of enhancements focusing on user-friendliness, automated design and process optimization. Examples are a powerful free-form sculpt toolkit, sophisticated crown automation, and advanced split-file design options truly enabling pressed ceramic restorations.
The Director of Business Development at one of the world´s largest labs, Glidewell Laboratories, Greg Minzenmayer, says, «We have now fully integrated the new 09 3Shape software into almost every department here at Glidewell. It has become an extremely powerful tool for us in many ways. The additional Abutment Design module has completely changed the way we approach implant cases, and the coping and full contour crown design application has greatly improved production flow in our PFM and All-ceramic departments.»
Another indication of the high value of 3Shape's system is the broad palette of dental indications supported - from copings, crowns, inlays, onlays, veneers, post & core, large-scale bridges, implant bars, to customized abutments. Versatility has always been one of 3Shapes major strong points in relation to other offerings on the market.
The new 3Shape DentalSystem™ allows laboratories of any size to offer their customers an unprecedented level of output quality - and all while improving their own productivity through reductions in both cost and turnaround time - plus future-proofing their business in the highly competitive field of dentistry laboratory services.
The adaptive impression scanning module and the Abutment design module come as add-on modules to the standard Dental system software package.
The system is to be launched through 3Shape's international network of distributors who will also provide required training for end-users of the Dental System.