Step-by-step dental intraoral scanning review guide for Chairside, 3Shape Unite, & Scan Pro to ensure accurate bite & data capture for dentures and partials.
For more in-depth instructions, please refer to What is a Quality Denture Scan and What is a Quality Partial Denture Scan?
Review Scans in Chairside
- Check each individual scan step to ensure each one has a green check mark
- Check to make sure there is no missing scan data or distortions on each scan
- Check that the bite matches the patient's clinical bite
- Go to the review step
- Click “HD” on the left side toolbar
- Wait for scans to load in HD
- Check scans to ensure there is no distortions
- Check to ensure there is no stitching issues
- Check that the ridge is completely captured
- Check that the tissue attachments are captured
- Double-check the bite is accurate to what is seen clinically
- If there are any scan areas that do not look adequate, please rescan until they are
Review Scans in 3Shape Unite
- Make sure the lab selected is Dandy
- Check to make sure there is no missing scan data or distortions on each scan
- Check that the bite matches the patient's clinical bite
- Go to the post-process step
- Click “post-process” under the scans
- Wait for the scans to load
- Check scans to ensure there is no distortions
- Check to ensure there is no stitching issues
- Check that the ridge is completely captured
- Check that the tissue attachments are captured
- Double-check the bite is accurate to what is seen clinically
- If there are any scan areas that do not look adequate, please rescan until they are
Review Scans in Scan Pro / Alliedstar
- Verify all scan steps are completed
- Check to make sure there is no missing scan data or distortions on each scan
- Check that the bite matches the patient's clinical bite
- Double-check the bite is accurate and matches what is seen clinically
- Check scans to ensure there is no distortions
- Check to ensure there is no stitching issues
- Check that the ridge is completely captured
- Check that the tissue attachments are captured
- Double-check the bite is accurate to what is seen clinically
- If there are any scan areas that do not look adequate, please rescan until they are