概要

Digital prosthodontics in COVID era

Maninder Hundal

The continuing COVID pandemic with newer variants arising highlights the necessity for prioritizing the critical prosthodontics services so on provide care during a way that minimizes harm to patients from delaying treatment also as preventing any harm to personnel and patients from potential exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Although conventional techniques in care have worked valuably for many years, for an easier, faster, more accurate and more efficient workflow, there's an outsized possibility in digital applications within the field of prosthodontics. With a totally digital approach, the infection risk is simply limited to the direct contact of the patient within the dentistry wherein the contamination are often prevented by the utilization of PPE, surface disinfection and sterilization of the scanner tips. This scientific presentation brings forth the appliance of digital prosthodontics including digital radiography, intraoral imaging, computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing; shade matching, digital smile designing and lots of other recent digitized applications within the current times so on provide safe and effective prosthodontics care to our patients.