Testing DEXIS IS 3800W Starting Soon

 

I've been working with intraoral scanners (IOS) for well over two decades.  I actually started way back when with the original CEREC 2.  As a small indication of how long ago that was, the unit actually booted with a *floppy disk*... remember those?... maybe not.  Anyway, I've been using this tech almost since its inception.  The great thing about that is simply I've seen it from almost the ground up.

IOS has made astounding advances over the years.  Scanners have gotten faster, more accurate, easy to use, and smaller.  In the last couple of years we've seen AI begin to enter into this area of clinical practice and now the devices aren't just incredible, they're smart.

In November I was contacted by DEXIS regarding testing and evaluating their IOS system.  I recently received their current top of the line scanner, the DEXIS IS 3800W.  This device is their flagship scanner and it is *wireless*.

One of the great things about working and using products from a company like DEXIS is their size and stability.  They have the teams in place for product development and can afford to take their time and not put anything on the market until they *know* it's going to work and work well.

Last week I spent about three hours with a trainer who brought me up to speed on the IS 3800W and its software.  A few years ago DEXIS created an imaging platform called DTX Studio.  The idea behind it was to streamline imaging and create a workflow that makes anything dealing with dental imaging seamless.  To be clear, it's not simply a cloud storage solution, but integrates digital treatment planning as well.  The idea is that DTX Studio is a single solution for anything you might want to do with a digital image or dataset.

Since IOS systems are, in their most basic sense, imaging devices, DEXIS not only uses DTX Studio as the place for photos, 2D radiographs, CBCT volumes, and intraoral photos but also stores the scans generated by their scanners.  They have designed DTX Studio to hold scanning data and then send that info to selected 3D printers or to a doctor's preferred lab(s).

In the coming weeks I'll be using the system both in testing and live with patients.  As always I'll report back here with my experiences and thoughts.

Stay tuned...