04/09/2024
On deployment, facial injury! Offshore posting and denture fractures! Endurance athlete falls and fractures their front teeth! In all these highly likely scenarios what would be your vital, go to, reference?Pre deployment digital mouth scan are becoming increasingly routine. They form a valuable record for our armed forces, endurance athletes and humanitarian field workers. Their increased popularity is due to ease in access , affordability, excellent software added to the fact that they can be e mailed to any laboratory in the world, for the construction of dental prosthesis, printing a 3D mouth model. In standard NHS dental practices, this is now been done routinely . We are familiar with 3Shape Trios 5 scanner (other scanners available) From extraordinary it’s now a normality. The scan can be accomplished by any medical professional and can easily be incorporated in pre deployment assessment protocols
