Chaise Longue Side is the most advanced digital model of ChairSide that allows all dental practices to create crowns, bridges, arches, healing abutments, inlays and cores in-house in 75 minutes.
ChairSide translates to "chair," but in dentistry, this term has long referred to a prosthesis, crown, bridge, or inlay created directly in the dentist's chair. Before the advent of digital technology, a new tooth could only be created after three appointments spaced a week apart, allowing the dental lab time to create and deliver the finished product to the office.
With the ChairSide model, introduced in 1985, it became possible to guarantee the patient the creation of the prosthetic device in a short time frame and within a single dental appointment. While offering clear advantages in terms of time, the ChairSide model also presents some challenges for the dental practice, such as the cost of the technology, the need for ongoing investment to ensure proper operation of the equipment, and ongoing training for the Clinical Team and ASO Team.
Today, IDI EVOLUTION , through its IDI MAKERS Unit – the most advanced dental-prosthetic research, design, prototyping, and production department on the Italian market – has chosen to overcome these problems and evolve the ChairSide concept. This is possible through Chaise Longue Side , the protocol that revolutionizes the traditional model of this technology to allow its use in all dental practices. This new, entirely digital, hybrid protocol significantly reduces costs and work times, as the dentist only needs to perform an intraoral scan and finalize the printed tooth.
Specifically , with IDI Evolution's Chaise Longue Side , the dentist performs an intraoral scan on the patient in the first 5 minutes of the session, sending it with a click to the IDI Makers team.
Once the scan is received, the IDI Makers department designs a prosthesis remotely in just 15 minutes , equipped with all the features necessary to adapt to the context detected during the scan, and sends the file with the project directly to the dental practice's 3D printer.
Once the file is received , the studio's 3D printer will take about 40 minutes to reproduce, using an innovative, printable and resistant material, even for permanent use, the artifact designed by the IDI Makers department, made up of a team of designers trained by Alberto Battsitelli's AGC school.
At this point, to complete the work, it will only be necessary to proceed with polymerization, polishing and cleaning of the tooth, and then place it in the patient's mouth.
In the video below, Andrea Piantoni , Chief Innovation Officer of IDI Evolution, presents Chaise Longue Side and the devices that can be created.
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