Align Technology launches MyiTero lab workflow
NewsPosted by: Dental Design 21st September 2020
Align Technology has launched an enhanced laboratory workflow, designed to significantly improve the collaboration between dental practices and laboratories, and can lead to increased efficiency, better accuracy, enhanced communication and a faster turnaround for both parties.
At the heart of the new workflow sits the cloud-based MyiTero.com platform, which enables the laboratory to receive scans within minutes, allowing them to review and communicate with the dentist in real time, for example – while the patient is still in the chair. It provides the laboratory with increased flexibility to manage the restorative workflow, ultimately enhancing patient communication and outcomes, and reducing the need for multiple revisits.
Steven Campbell, President of the United Kingdom Dental Laboratories Association, said: “The new workflow allows technicians to work on immediate scan enhancements and make timely modifications to their milled models, saving at least a day, if not more, on cases. Scans can be received and reviewed within minutes, rather than the previous timeline of 8 – 48 hours.”
As an early user of the new workflow, Campbell has already observed some of the benefits in his lab and among his customers. As he explained: “In my opinion the MyiTero workflow is a major advance in direct communication with dental surgeons, so that they can make the adjustments needed while the patient is still in the dental chair. It allows us to work more collaboratively, as well as to create a convincing and effective proposition to offer patients. Our restoration remake rate is the lowest it has ever been, and it is purely down to communication. We now have a tool that allows us to send the whole design to the surgeons who can view it in their own time, inspect it from all angles, make an informed decision and request rapid changes. This reduces stress, saves time, product wastage and postage, as well as prevents disappointments regarding patient treatment. With the iTero intraoral scanner, the digital workflow process is fully mapped out, ready and mature.”
