New Scanning Strategy for More Accurate Implant Scanbody Alignment: Short Communication

This manuscript presents a more accurate methodology, in comparison to extant approaches, that enables errorless congruence between an implant scanbody and its counterparts in the scanbody library of a dental computer-aided design (CAD) application. The proposed method deletes corners and difficult intraoral scanning regions and selects only the remaining flat and wide scanbody planes in the library. Achieving overlap between the portions of the actual scanbody data without distortion using an intraoral scanner is a novel development that is expected to represent a new standard in scanbody library alignment.