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Tuomas Lokki, Vice President of the Planmeca Group. (Photograph: DTI)COLOGNE, Germany: Incomparable visualisation and measurement data of mandibular 3-D movements in real-time are possible with the new Planmeca 4D Jaw Motion system now on display by Finish dental equipment manufacturer Planmeca in hall 11.1 at IDS in Cologne. According to Vice President of the Group, Tuomas Lokki, to whom Dental Tribune International had the opportunity to speak on Tuesday morning, the system is available for the camera feature of Planmeca ProMax 3D Mid and Max X-ray units and requires no additional hardware.
“The solution is unique in the sense that you can see in real time whatever movement the patient is making with the jaw and what happens when the patient is moving or biting,” he explained. “Afterwards we can use that to analyse the bite and the situation around it and combine that with the CAD/CAM data to have the bite analysis.”
Besides this innovation, Planmeca also has its complete renewed Planmeca Romexis 4.0 on display, as well as the Planmeca Romexis Smile Design software that allows dentists to create harmonious new smiles for patients, among other things. The company’s overall presentation is bigger and better this year with about 200 sqms additional booth space compared to 2013.
Connectivity and digital workflow are a particular focus of this year’s presentation, Lokki said.
“We have a very good technology range. The challenge is to bring it into practice so that dentists can efficiently work and get the benefits of all that technology,” Lokki said.
Lokki added that in the future, practices will be an all-around connected system, for which the IDS is a good example.
“We have seven kilometres of cable here connecting everything. Every single product here is connected, and that is the way it goes. It is all about productivity, whether it is CAD/CAM or imaging.”
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