Cicciù Marco, Fiorillo Luca, D'Amico Cesare, Gambino Dario, Amantia Emanuele Mario, Laino Luigi, Crimi Salvatore, Campagna Paola, Bianchi Alberto, Herford Alan Scott, Cervino Gabriele
Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphological and Functional Imaging, Messina University, 98100 Messina, Italy.
Multidisciplinary Department of Medical-Surgical and Odontostomatological Specialties, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", 80100 Naples, Italy.
Materials (Basel). 2020 Apr 23;13(8):1982. doi: 10.3390/ma13081982.
The advent of new technologies in the field of medicine and dentistry is giving improvements that lead the clinicians to have materials and procedures able to improve patients' quality of life. In dentistry, the last digital techniques offer a fully digital computerized workflow that does not include the standard multiple traditional phases. The purpose of this study is to evaluate all clinical trials and clinical randomized trials related to the digital or dental impression technique in prosthetic dentistry trying to give the readers global information about advantages and disadvantages of each procedure. Data collection was conducted in the main scientific search engines, including articles from the last 10 years, in order to obtain results that do not concern obsolete impression techniques. Elsevier, Pubmed and Embase have been screened as sources for performing the research. The results data demonstrated how the working time appears to be improved with digital workflow, but without a significant result (P = 0.72596). The papers have been selected following the Population Intervention Comparison Outcome (PICO) question, which is related to the progress on dental impression materials and technique. The comparison between dentists or practitioners with respect to classic impression procedures, and students open to new device and digital techniques seem to be the key factor on the final impression technique choice. Surely, digital techniques will end up supplanting the analogical ones altogether, improving the quality of oral rehabilitations, the economics of dental practice and also the perception by our patients.
医学和牙科领域新技术的出现带来了诸多改进，使临床医生能够采用有助于提高患者生活质量的材料和程序。在牙科领域，最新的数字技术提供了一种完全数字化的计算机化工作流程，摒弃了标准的多个传统阶段。本研究的目的是评估与口腔修复学中数字或牙印模技术相关的所有临床试验和临床随机试验，旨在为读者提供有关每种程序优缺点的全面信息。数据收集在主要科学搜索引擎中进行，包括过去10年的文章，以获取与过时印模技术无关的结果。已筛选爱思唯尔、PubMed和Embase作为进行研究的来源。结果数据表明，数字工作流程似乎能缩短工作时间，但差异不显著（P = 0.72596）。这些论文是根据“人群、干预措施、对照、结局”（PICO）问题进行筛选的，该问题与牙印模材料和技术的进展相关。牙医或从业者在经典印模程序方面的比较，以及对新设备和数字技术持开放态度的学生，似乎是最终印模技术选择的关键因素。当然，数字技术最终必将完全取代传统技术，提高口腔修复质量、牙科实践的经济效益以及患者的认可度。
