Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Digital Imaging -- Introduction -- Digital versus conventional film radiography -- Increased use of computers in the dental office -- Review of basic terminology -- Image quality comparison between direct and indirect digital radiography -- Amount of radiation required to use direct and indirect digital radiography -- Radiation safety of digital radiography -- Radiation dosimetry -- Uses of 2D systems in daily practice -- Caries diagnosis -- Caries classifications -- Ethics of caries diagnosis -- Computer-aided diagnosis of radiographs -- Non radiographic methods of caries diagnosis -- Quantitative light-induced fluorescence -- Laser fluorescence -- Alternating current impedance spectroscopy -- Frequency-domain laser-induced infrared photothermal radiometry and modulated luminescence (PTR/LUM) -- Cone beam computed tomography -- Limitations of CBCT -- Common uses of CBCT in dentistry -- Dental implant planning -- Endodontics -- Growth and development -- Oral & maxillofacial surgery -- Future imaging technology -- Polarization-sensitive optical coherent tomography (OCT) -- Advancements in the logicon computer-aided diagnosis software -- MRI for dental implant planning -- MRI for caries detection -- Dynamic MRI -- Low dose CBCT -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Digital Impressions -- Introduction -- Historical overview -- Conventional impression versus digital impression making -- Economics of computer-aided impression making -- Digital acquisition units -- Sole impression systems -- CAD/CAM impression systems -- iTero -- 3M true definition scanner -- CEREC systems -- PlanScan -- CS3500 intraoral digital impression scanner -- Digital impression technique.

Applications and limitations of computer-aided impression making -- Future innovations -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Direct Digital Manufacturing -- Introduction -- Scanning devices -- Digital manufacturing -- File format in the digital workflow -- Additive versus subtractive manufacturing technologies -- Subtractive manufacturing technology -- Additive manufacturing technology -- Materials extrusion technologies -- Powder bed fusion -- Selective laser melt -- Electron beam melting -- Selective heat sintering -- Selective laser sintering -- Binder jetting -- Plaster-based 3D printing -- Sheet lamination -- Laminated object manufacturing (LOM) -- Vat photopolymerization -- Stereolithography -- Digital light processing -- Materials jetting -- Polyjet 3D printing -- Applications of digital manufacturing in medicine and dentistry -- Future of DDM -- Chapter 4 Digital Application in Operative Dentistry -- Introduction -- Case selection -- Tooth preparation for computerized restorations -- Clinical guidelines for digital impressions -- Digital impression workflow -- Accuracy of digital impressions -- Chairside CAD/CAM systems -- Chairside CAD/CAM clinical workflow -- Accuracy of chairside CAD/CAM systems -- Chairside restorative materials -- Clinical longevity -- Summary -- Chapter 5 Digital Fixed Prosthodontics -- Introduction -- CAD/CAM materials for the production of fixed restorations -- Die materials -- Pattern materials -- Restorative materials -- Hard milling -- Composites -- Ceramics -- Alloys -- Soft milling -- Provisional restorations -- Single unit ceramic restorations -- Chairside -- Laboratory fabricated -- Ceramics for multiunit complex restorations -- Tooth preparation design -- Margin design -- Milling considerations for tooth preparation -- Single restoration design -- Multiunit design -- Longevity and prognosis -- Damage.

Fixed partial dental prostheses -- Occlusion -- Accuracy -- Occlusal forces -- Single unit restorations -- Multiunit restorations -- Wear of opposing dentition -- Esthetic limitations -- Functional limitations -- Summary -- Chapter 6 CAD/CAM Removable Prosthodontics -- Introduction -- History of complete dentures and the development of CAD/CAM technology -- Advantages of CAD/CAM dentures -- Disadvantages of CAD/CAM dentures -- Commercially available CAD/CAM complete dentures -- Step-by-step procedures for the fabrication of complete dentures using the AvaDent system. -- Laboratory procedures -- Denture placement and adjustments -- Step-by-step procedures for the fabrication of complete dentures using the Dentca system -- Laboratory procedures -- Denture insertion and adjustments -- AvaDent conversion denture for immediate loading of a complete arch implant prosthesis -- Clinical procedures -- Technique description for the fabrication of a digital definitive fixed complete denture -- Laboratory phase -- Placement of definitive maxillary denture and mandibular fixed CD -- Computer-aided design of removable partial denture -- Advantages of digitally designed removable partial dentures -- Disadvantages of digitally designed removable partial dentures -- Step-by-step procedures for the digital design and fabrication of a RPD using the RP technique -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 7 Digital Implant Surgery -- Introduction -- Prosthodontic plan and optimal 3D implant positioning -- Basics in computer-guided surgery -- Radiographic imaging -- Dynamic versus static guided implant placement systems -- Computer-assisted implant planning -- Double-scan protocol -- Single-scan protocol -- Surgical guides -- Stereolithographic surgical guides -- Laboratory-made surgical guides -- Digitally manufactured guides.

Surgical guide fixation methods -- Effectiveness of computer-guided surgery -- Accuracy -- Guide-related factors -- Reduction of surgery time, flapless approach -- Reduced need for bone regeneration -- Surgical and prosthetic complications -- Computer guided implant surgery workflow -- Presurgical study phase -- Clinical applications of computer-guided surgery - case reports -- Flapless placement and immediate restoration of single implant -- Immediate placement and restoration of single implant -- Guided placement and immediate loading of implants in edentulous maxilla -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 8 Digital Design and Manufacture of Implant Abutments -- Introduction -- Implant abutments -- Prefabricated abutments -- Custom abutments -- CAD/CAM abutment design -- ATLANTIS abutments -- NobelProcera abutments -- BellaTek encode system -- Summary -- Chapter 9 Digital Applications in Endodontics -- Introduction -- Diagnostic technologies -- Conventional pulp testing -- Other pulp vitality testing technologies -- Allodynia measuring device -- Optical coherence tomography (OCT) -- Digital radiography and cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -- Ultrasound real-time imaging of periapical lesions -- Electronic technologies in local anesthesia -- Electronic technologies in endodontic treatment -- Magnification technologies: microscopes and endoscopes -- Sonic and ultrasonic technologies -- Electronic working length determination (electronic apex locators) -- Root canal instrumentation -- Root canal obturation -- Down pack technologies -- Thermoplasticized gutta percha -- Carrier-based technologies -- Summary.

Chapter 10 From Traditional to Contemporary: Imaging Techniques for Orthodontic Diagnosis, Treatment Planning, and Outcome Assessment -- Introduction -- Traditional cephalometrics -- CT scanning and cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) -- Tooth structure and position -- Crown and root morphology -- Alveolar bone assessment -- Skeletal dysmorphology -- Airway visualization and measurement -- Imaging the facial soft tissues -- Summary -- Chapter 11 Clinical Applications of Digital Dental Technology in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery -- Introduction -- Imaging -- Plain films versus digital films -- Cone-beam CT -- Dentoalveolar surgery -- Maxillofacial pathology -- Orthognathic surgery -- Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) -- Maxillofacial trauma -- CAD/CAM technology applications -- CAD/CAM in maxillofacial pathology and reconstruction -- CAD/CAM in temporomandibular joint disorders -- CAD/CAM in orthognathic surgery -- Esthetic facial surgery -- Maxillofacial prosthetics -- Navigation in oral and maxillofacial surgery -- Robotic maxillofacial surgery -- Summary -- Chapter 12 The Virtual Patient -- Introduction -- What is a virtual patient? -- Types of virtual patients -- Virtual patients in medical education -- Virtual patients in diagnostics, treatment planning, and execution -- Virtual patients: state-of-the-Art in dentistry -- Virtual patients in dental education -- Virtual patients in dental diagnostics, treatment planning, and execution in dentistry -- Virtual patients - what to expect in the future? -- Index -- EULA.