Dental News - Gendex redefines 3-D imaging

Sierra Rendon, DTA

Tue. 6 April 2010

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CHICAGO, USA: 3-D has gone ‘high def,’ thanks to Gendex’s recent launch of the GXCB-500 HD. “Our GXCB-500 HD is the newest enhancement to our 3-D product line,” explained Matthew Reintjes, vice president of sales in imaging for Gendex. Along with the new high-definition feature, the GXCB-500 HD offers scan flexibility, fast workflow and integration capabilities.

“The product brings a number of benefits to the practitioner,” Reintjes told Dental Tribune during the recent Midwinter Meeting. “Not only are we adding a dedicated high-definition panoramic, but it’s a traditional low-dose, high-end pan, so it is not just a 3-D rendering of a pan. This is a big value to offices that want to take panoramics.”

That option allows a practice to consider downsizing to one piece of equipment that can do it all.

“With that flexibility, you can choose to use the GXCB-500 to completely replace your panoramic because in one device you get the power of 3-D and the power of a traditional 2-D pan,” he said.

Time and efficiency are important elements of the GXCB-500 HD, which allows dentists to have a patient in the chair and a plan on the screen in only a few minutes.

“We have an extremely fast scan and reconstruction time,” Reintjes said. “The GXCB-500 takes a 3-D image in seconds; it does a scan and reconstruction in about 30 seconds, which from a resulting image quality, a patient satisfaction and end-result standpoint, is a big benefit. It’s just less time in the chair; you spend more time with the patient than with the equipment. That’s a big objective of ours.”

The GXCB-500 HD has a unique, adjustable 3-D medium field of view that can be sized from as large as 8 x 14 cm to as small as 2 x 8 cm. This allows for the greatest flexibility of treatment covering a host of procedures from TMJ to implants to endo.

Additionally, the GXCB-500 is “powered by i-CAT,” meaning it utilizes technology from its sister company, Imaging Sciences, to provide the best clarity, flexibility and speed.

“This product is a nice marriage of two well-known and respected brands: Gendex, which is a long legacy brand in dental and imaging, coupled with i-Cat, which has been the market leader in 3-D,” he said. “So we’ve married the strength of two businesses and the resulting product is the GXCB-500 HD.”

By creating an open-software architecture, collaboration with other companies is made possible as well.
“We’re partnering with market players such as E4D, so with implants and restorations, there will be a tie-in with the 3-D data, providing more streamlined procedures, which leads to additional practice efficiency and effectiveness,” Reintjes said.

“We’ve built in this integration so that with future applications in the growing areas of dentistry, such as CAD/CAM, we’ve designed a system that’s open and will allow us to continue to partner with the leaders in the market around those technologies.”

More information about the GXCB-500 HD is available from Gendex.

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