When planning on creating a medical model, there is a few more considerations than “just taking a CT Scan.”  Please review the below protocol.

Facilities / equipment needed:

• ⁃ CBCT scanner.

Items required:

• 1) Cotton rolls

Procedure:

• ⁃ If the patient’s opposing arch has a removable prosthesis, he/she should be wearing it.
• ⁃ Place cotton roles in the vestibules.
• ⁃ Patient should bite on additional cotton rolls in the posterior quadrants.  It is important that the patient NOT be in occlusion during the scan.
• ⁃ Field of View (FOV) should include the entire area in which you want to include in your medical model.
• ⁃ Prepare Scans for Export to Us:
• ⁃ Ask the CBCT technician to give/send you the in one of these two formats:
• ⁃ Standard DICOM SET (A folder with hundreds of .DCM files, one for each slice)
• ⁃ Anatomage Invivo (.INV file)
• ⁃ Upload:
• ⁃ Using a full PC, go to our upload page and your file.