New Year's Resolution: An Occlusion Solution!

As 2017 comes to a close, it’s time to look ahead to the future—a clean slate with new goals to be achieved. Many people are making New Year’s resolutions with plans to improve their health, and dentists are in a position to help their patients do just that.

One major oral health concern is occlusion, which can lead to fractures, pain, recession, and TMD symptoms, as well as lost time and money for dentists. Opinions and philosophies vary when it comes to the diagnosis and treatment of occlusion. However, there has long been a missing piece of information when analyzing occlusion: force, timing, and pressure.

If measured with articulating paper alone, the location of contact is determined but not the force. With that minimal information, occlusion treatment can become a long process of trial and error which means patients may have to make multiple visits to correct the issue, possibly needing to repair broken implants.

T-Scan™, Tekscan’s digital occlusion analysis tool, brings objective and accurate data to your practice. It measures the force of occlusal contact points, allowing you to provide more effective occlusion diagnoses and treatments, and reduce the time it takes to find the best solution for your patients.

“Studies repeatedly show that it can be very difficult for a clinician to accurately identify which occlusal contact has more force than the others nearby when using articulating paper alone. By enabling us to identify previously unobtainable occlusal force characteristics (which have never been possible to detect with articulation paper), the T-Scan can help ensure that high quality and complete occlusal end-results are predictably obtained from clinical occlusal treatment.” -Dr. Jin-Hwan Kim

Not only is the data helpful for diagnosis, it’s also a helpful tool to help you patients understand the issues and accept your treatment plan. T-Scan sets your practice apart and opens up a new source of revenue by expanding your treatment modalities around occlusion. The objective data enables you to provide more accurate diagnoses that minimize patient returns for corrections and wasted materials. This also frees up valuable time to spend with other patients, increasing your productivity and profitability.

Make your own New Year’s resolution to add the T-Scan digital occlusion analysis tool to your practice. Both you and your patients can have a healthy and happy 2018!