Coppersmith Dental Centre
Dental Technology In Richmond
Our Dental Technology Services
At Coppersmith Dental Centre, your trusted “dental clinic near me” in Richmond, we are committed to providing you with the highest standard of care. That’s why we invest in cutting-edge dental technology, ensuring more accurate diagnoses, comfortable treatments, and ultimately, healthier smiles.
iTero® Element Intraoral Scanner
The iTero Element Scanner makes great first impressions. This digital impression system eliminates the need for messy putty in your mouth, as we would traditionally use to create an impression of your teeth. With our iTero Element Scanner, we can digitally capture a detailed 3D model of your teeth and gums. Not only is this process far more comfortable than the old putty based impressions, but it’s faster. This system is ideal for crowns, bridges, implants, and Invisalign® clear aligners and retainers, and you can find it here, at your ‘dental clinic near me’.
The iTero Element Scanner Makes Great First Impressions
This digital impression system eliminates the need for messy putty in your mouth, as we would traditionally use to create an impression of your teeth. With our iTero Element Scanner, we can digitally capture a detailed 3D model of your teeth and gums. Not only is this process far more comfortable than the old putty based impressions, but it’s faster. This system is ideal for crowns, bridges, implants, and Invisalign® clear aligners and retainers.
Traditional impressions were messy, uncomfortable, occasionally unreliable and unpleasant tasting. That’s why we’re proud to offer full digital impressions. Not only is a digital impression more comfortable, it’s also much more accurate. The scanner takes an incredibly detailed impression of your teeth and gums.
During the scanning process, you can breathe or swallow as you normally would. You can even pause during the process if you need to. The scanner gives us a 3D model of your mouth that can be used for your dental services including the Invisalign Outcome Simulator to show you what your new smile might look like. Once the scan is complete, your dentist will then have a 3D model of your mouth that can be used to create detailed crowns, bridges, implants, and Invisalign® clear aligners and retainers. The digital accuracy eliminates the need to retake impressions, keeping your time in the chair to an absolute minimum.
The Benefits of an iTero® Element Scanner
Comfortable
- No mess associated with impression materials
- Breathe and swallow as you normally would
- No unpleasant taste, smell or gagging
Fast
- 3D view of scans onscreen with your dentist
- Provides faster delivery times of your Invisalign® treatment plan
Accurate
- Precise fit of crowns, bridges, implants, and Invisalign clear aligners and retainers
- No need to retake impressions
Velscope Oral Cancer Screening
We are happy to have the technology here at your ‘dental clinic near me’ to provide a pain-free oral cancer screening to our patients. Oral cancer is more common that many other types of cancer, and with the Velscope technology we can screen your mouth and detect any oral lesions by performing this screening yearly.
It is a simple light that your hygienist will shine into your mouth, which will let us see several layers deep into your tissue, thereby catching cancerous lesions early. This bright light has been endorsed on Dr. Oz and was actually developed at UBC!
CBCT Scanner
A CBCT machine is a special type of X-ray machine that can create a 3D image of your teeth, bone, nerve pathways, and soft tissues in one scan. It is especially useful when a regular facial or dental X-ray can’t provide a sufficient view. The machine was developed in the 1990s and is based on light intensifier technology. Since a CBCT uses a cone-shaped area detector, you can stay in one place as the sensor moves around you.
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