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Scanning Fundamentals and Intro to Full Digital Workflow-Nashville, TN **One Day Course**

The CAD-Ray signature course, Scanning Fundamentals, is hitting the road and heading to Music City this spring. Join us in Nashville for a focused, hands‑on IOS training experience that shows exactly why choosing CAD-Ray as your digital dentistry partner was one of the smartest moves you’ve made.

You’ll get a clear, practical look at everything you’ve unlocked by going digital—plus a deep dive into the specific functionality of your scanner brand. Whether you’re brand new to IOS, looking for a confidence‑boosting refresher, or onboarding a new team member, this course delivers the skills, clarity, and real‑world workflows that make digital dentistry faster, easier, and more predictable.

Scanning Fundamentals & Digital Workflow Mastery
For TRIOS®, Medit®, and Shining 3D Intraoral Scanners
Course Overview
This one-day, hands-on course is designed to help clinicians and their teams master intraoral scanning fundamentals and confidently move beyond “basic scanning” into efficient, predictable digital workflows—regardless of scanner brand.
Through guided instruction, real-world case examples, and supervised scanning, attendees will learn how to maximize the capabilities of their TRIOS, Medit, or Shining 3D scanner while laying the foundation for expanded workflows including implant restorations, guided surgery, 3D printing, milling, and full-arch cases.
Learning Objectives
Participants will learn how to:
  • 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
Teaching Methods
  • 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
Scanning Fundamentals & Restorative Workflows
Morning Session: Foundations of Digital Impressions
  • 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
  • Digital Implantology
    • 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
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,
 
Afternoon Session: Digital Implant Restorations
  • 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
  • Edentulous & Full-Arch Cases
    • 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
Learn how modern scanners streamline implant workflows by transferring accurate positional data, reducing manual input, and minimizing downstream design errors.
CE Credits
8 Continuing Education Credits
Presenter
Dr. Armen Mirzayan
Dr. Armen Mirzayan is the Clinical Education Director and co-founder of CAD-Ray. A graduate of Northwestern Dental School (1998), he completed his General Practice Residency at The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. He has been practicing digital dentistry for over two decades and adopted chairside CAD/CAM as early as 2001.
Dr. Mirzayan has trained over 10,000 dentists worldwide in intraoral scanning, CAD/CAM, CBCT integration, and guided implant surgery. He co-founded cerecdoctors.com, one of the earliest and most influential digital dentistry education platforms.
Since founding CAD-Ray in 2013, Dr. Mirzayan has overseen the fabrication of 35,000+ surgical guides and helped shape CAD-Ray’s education-first, support-driven approach to digital dentistry. He continues to practice clinically, rigorously tests emerging digital technologies, and teaches nationally—ensuring that every workflow taught is rooted in real-world success.