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Marta Revilla-León1, Michael Drone2
1Affiliate Assistant Professor, Graduate Prosthodontics, Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash; Faculty and Director of Research and Digital Dentistry, Kois Center, Seattle, Wash; and Adjunct Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, School of Dental Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, Mass.
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Dental professionals implementing implant workflows for fabricating implant-supported restorations must record all the scans needed to design an implant-supported prosthesis and understand the registration procedures to integrate these scans. This manuscript describes an implant workflow in which extraoral photogrammetry and the reverse scanning method were combined to fabricate a maxillary and mandibular complete arch implant-supported prostheses. Implant scanning workflows vary depending on the scanning technique used to capture implant positions; therefore, the steps and reference landmarks for acquiring patient information need to be understood to maximize the efficiency and successful implementation of these technologies.