Dental News - Introducing ChairsideCAD 3.0 Galway

Fred Michmershuizen, Dental Tribune America

Thu. 24 February 2022

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The Midwinter Meeting is often the place where the dental industry’s newest and most advanced technology is introduced. This year in Chicago, one such innovation is ChairsideCAD 3.0 Galway. The next-generation CAD software for single-visit dentistry, developed by exocad, an Align Technology company, first became available in the United States and Canada in November.

As part of a marketing campaign behind the launch, company principals from exocad granted a sit-down interview to Dental Tribune America at the 2021 Greater New York Dental Meeting, where they discussed the new software and what it can offer to dental practices.

The executives from exocad said that this new release — named after the Irish city of Galway, a European “Capital of Culture” — provides dentists with design tools for a vast range of indications along with a wide choice of integrated devices. The chairside workflow is highly automated, intuitive and optimized for practice use, they said.

“The major advantage is that it provides more optimized workflows for clinicians to do chairside restoration single-visit dentistry for more restoration types, and the big advancement is that it now includes FDA-cleared design of custom abutments and screw-retained restorations,” said Larry Bodony, president of exocad America.

Tillman Steinbrecher, CEO of exocad, added more details about the features and highlights of this new release. “It’s very much optimized to reduce the design time by adding more automation and by bringing our instant anatomic morphing technology to chairside CAD,” Steinbrecher exlpained. “The goal here is really to enable the clinician to come up with exactly the design, exactly the shape he or she has in mind, but with minimal time effort.”

The software is designed to be suitable for both experts and novices. Those who are newer to CAD/CAM might appreciate its fast, “wizard-guided” workflows, while more advanced users can select free design sequences offering greater flexibility, Bodony and Steinbrecher explained.

Another advantage of the new release of exocad software, they said, is that it supports the collaboration between dental technicians and dentists.

“That’s been a founding feature of our software for many, many years now,” Bodony said. “We have a technology called dentalshare that’s included in all of our products. It is a point-to-point communications technology that allows technicians and dentists to communicate in near real time on cases, so basically the exocad case that’s sitting, for instance, scanned at the dentist, can be shared in its entirety with the lab with a very few number of clicks. It’s very efficient in time so that they can then get on the phone if they need to communicate or there’s a built-in chat function as well that allows them to basically communicate about the case and send files back and forth very efficiently.”

“We firmly believe that the earlier and the more you get the dental technician involved in the treatment planning, the better the result will typically be,” Steinbrecher said. “So it’s really a key aspect to provide the platform that enables better collaboration between dentists and dental technicians. It also enables dental technicians to offer new digital services to dentists.”

Steinbrecher said that the most important thing he wants dentists to know about exocad is that it provides the software tools needed to make the most out of the equipment you have. “No matter if it’s a 3-D printer or an internal scanner or a milling machine, we provide the software that ties things together with smooth and efficient workflows and also takes the communication with your lab to the next level,” he said.

Christine McClymont, global head of marketing and communications for exocad, described the thinking behind the branding of the software, which includes a new catchphrase — “Imagine the CADabilities” — as well as a testimonial campaign and an expanded booth presence at dental meetings. “We wanted to make sure that we elevate the brand,” she said.

McClymont said dental show attendees are invited to the exocad booth to view demonstrations and to take a “deeper dive into the technology.”

It’s award-winning technology, as well. Last year the Cellerant Group named ChairsideCAD as its 2021 Best of Class Technology Award winner for clinical design software. It was the third consecutive year the exocad software was recognized with the award.

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