Today, it is impossible to imagine dentistry without digital technology and CAD/CAM procedures. Intra-oral and extra-oral measuring, the scanning of antagonists and bite registrations, 3-D design on a computer, the availability of countless tooth shapes in a dental database, the creation of anatomically shaped occlusal surfaces, functional articulation on a virtual model, the subtractive machining of high-performance ceramicsÑall this would be impossible without computers.
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