Scanning Fundamentals and Intro to Full Digital Workflow-Dallas, TX

• Master core scanning principles that apply across all major intraoral scanner platforms
• Understand scanner-specific tools while maintaining a brand-agnostic digital philosophy
• Improve accuracy, efficiency, and clinical confidence for single-unit, multi-unit, and full-arch cases
• Identify and correct common scanning errors in real time
• Transition from isolated digital impressions to expanded or full digital workflows, including in-house design, 3D printing, and milling
• Properly delegate scanning tasks and digital processes to team members

• Lecture-based instruction
• Guided, hands-on intraoral scanning
• Supervised scanner workflows (brand-specific breakouts)
• Guided computer instruction for exporting, designing, and sending cases to printers, mills, or labs

• Core principles of digital impressions vs. analog techniques
• Leveraging editable and additive scan data
• Mastering single-unit restorations, complex cases, and staged full-arch scans
• Understanding scan sequencing for speed and accuracy
• Identifying and correcting scanning artifacts and imaging errors
• Achieving predictable, accurate full-arch scans
• Clinical delegation: what scanners allow assistants and team members to handle
• Brand-agnostic strategies to reduce scan time and increase accuracy

Full-arch scanning can be challenging on any platform. This course teaches universal principles—combined with scanner-specific tools—that dramatically reduce time, distortion, and rescans.

• Fundamentals of implant scanning workflows
• Identification and capture of scanbodies, abutments, and implant suprastructures
• Understanding scanner-based AI-assisted recognition (where applicable)
• Designing single-unit restorations, copy-milled cases, and custom abutments
• Exporting complete implant data sets to CAD software (e.g., exocad)
• Scanner-specific workflow considerations for TRIOS, Medit, and Shining 3D

Learn how modern scanners streamline implant workflows by transferring accurate positional data, reducing manual input, and minimizing downstream design errors.

• Integration of CBCT (DICOM) and intraoral scan (STL) data
• Understanding limitations of CBCT-to-STL alignment
• Managing and integrating multiple CBCT datasets
• Digitization of denture duplicates for guided surgery and stent fabrication
• Surgical guide design options and clinical decision-making
• Patient presentation and case acceptance using digital treatment planning
• Single and multiple implant case setups
• Chairside denture duplication workflows
• Impression techniques for multiple fixtures and multi-unit restorations
• Restorative design of implant abutments using CAD software

• Immediate extraction workflows and maintaining vertical dimension
• Digital impression techniques for edentulous patients
• Full-arch restorative options and case sequencing
• Accurate transfer of fixture positions to digital models
• Digital denture design fundamentals
• Full-arch intraoral scanning vs. photogrammetry
• Workflow selection: intraoral scans, photogrammetry, or hybrid approaches