Dental Asia March/April 2023
For more than two decades, Dental Asia is the premium journal in linking dental innovators and manufacturers to its rightful audience. We devote ourselves in showcasing the latest dental technology and share evidence-based clinical philosophies to serve as an educational platform to dental professionals. Our combined portfolio of print and digital media also allows us to reach a wider market and secure our position as the leading dental media in the Asia Pacific region while facilitating global interactions among our readers.
For more than two decades, Dental Asia is the premium journal in linking dental innovators
and manufacturers to its rightful audience. We devote ourselves in showcasing the latest dental technology and share evidence-based clinical philosophies to serve as an educational platform to dental professionals. Our combined portfolio of print and digital media also allows us to reach a wider market and secure our position as the leading dental media in the Asia Pacific region while facilitating global interactions among our readers.
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EDITOR’S NOTE<br />
Era of dental<br />
revolution: Where<br />
past and future<br />
collides<br />
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Czarmaine Masigla<br />
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The dental industry is in a very exciting era —<br />
the once considered futuristic idea is now the<br />
reality. From 3D printing, software integrations<br />
and artificial intelligence (AI), the advancement<br />
in technology has enabled dental practices<br />
and laboratories to scale up their practices in<br />
multiple ways.<br />
For instance, the plug-and-play solutions of<br />
Ackuretta have made it possible for practitioners<br />
to adapt same-day dentistry. Thomas Wu,<br />
CTO of Ackuretta, shares how crucial it is to<br />
incorporate customers’ feedback in designing<br />
and building a product to make it more userfriendly.<br />
By tapping into AI technology, they<br />
aim to minimise the learning curve in using 3D<br />
printing technology, so more practitioners can<br />
use and benefit from it (p.22).<br />
As the dental sector continues to be more<br />
digitalised with integrated workflows, Prof Dr<br />
Sebastian Gell, co-founder of Scanningspray,<br />
said that scanning and 3D printing will play an<br />
important role for dental laboratories in the<br />
coming years. With their self-cleaning scanning<br />
spray, they aim to optimise the scanning<br />
process and improve the scan quality so dental<br />
laboratories can generate reproducible results<br />
in the 3D scan (p.21).<br />
Technological advancements have no doubt<br />
further enhanced treatment outcomes<br />
as exampled by how Dr Lee Ann Brady<br />
utilises dental occlusion technology to<br />
acquire a more complete picture of a<br />
patient’s temporomandibular joint and<br />
better understand how it contributes to<br />
temporomandibular disorders (p.30).<br />
In the past decade, we have seen a dramatic<br />
transformation in the workflow of dental<br />
clinics and laboratories. And with the<br />
return of in-person events and trade fairs —<br />
starting with the 40th edition of IDS — the<br />
digital revolution in dentistry is set to run at<br />
full throttle (p.58).<br />
Czarmaine Masigla<br />
Assistant Editor<br />
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