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How 3D Imaging Can Reshape Your Mouth

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Aside from the expense and discomfort, the annoying part of getting a dental crown is the time involved – usually two separate visits to complete the process. Two different companies – one of them in North Texas – have created systems using 3D imaging to reduce the crown procedure to one visit total.

Dr. Gary Severance of Richardson-based D4D Technologies talked about it in this week’s edition of "Vital Signs." Here's a video demonstration of how the process works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlONPEGZU8I

For more information:

Cerec CAD-CAM Dentistry System

Recent Developments in Digital Dentistry

What Is 3-D Imaging?

Sam Baker is KERA's senior editor and local host for Morning Edition. The native of Beaumont, Texas, also edits and produces radio commentaries and Vital Signs, a series that's part of the station's Breakthroughs initiative. He also was the longtime host of KERA 13’s Emmy Award-winning public affairs program On the Record. He also won an Emmy in 2008 for KERA’s Sharing the Power: A Voter’s Voice Special, and has earned honors from the Associated Press and the Public Radio News Directors Inc.