Editor’s Note: During his presentation at 3Shape’s Inaugural Community Symposium last fall, Lyndon F. Cooper, DDS, PhD, explained the positive impact of digital technology now and in the future. The following is excerpted from his lecture in which he focused on four main benefits of digital technology:
Digital technology improves care. Like the medical community, the dental profession must focus on the Triple Aim approach to health care: the simultaneous pursuit of improving the patient experience of care and the health of populations while reducing the per capita cost of care. Digital technology will make these goals more attainable.
Today, a dental laboratory can easily provide the bespoke (high-end) practice with alternative diagnostic waxups that permit the patient to choose his preferred design; this will only become more commonplace in the...
