3Shape’s Ortho System™ is a digital age solution for orthodontic labs and clinics. Ortho System™ brings together accurate 3D scanning, archiving, intuitive treatment planning and analysis, efficient patient management, communication tools, and appliance design, all providing streamlined workflows that increase efficiency and productivity for labs and practices.
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A complete CAD/CAM solution for orthodontics
Solutions for both labs and practices
With Ortho System™, labs can replace manual methods and model-making with 3D scanning, digital treatment planning services, and appliance design. Orthodontic practices can scan impressions, and enjoy digital benefits such as easy case transfer, diagnostics and
analysis of treatment results, and efficient treatment planning.
3Shape TRIOS® – intraoral 3D scanning 3Shape TRIOS®
is a spray-free intraoral scanner that enables orthodontists to apture the complete intraoral situation directly as a highly accurate 3D digital model. The practice can omit the taking of impressions and bypass disadvantages such as inaccuracies, material costs, retakes and manual handling, while giving patients an improved chair-side experience.
R700™ – 3D scanning of impressions and casts
Ortho System™ includes the R700™ orthodontic gypsum-model and impression scanner. Designed for 3D scanning tasks in both labs and practices, the R700™ is easy to use, fast, and accurate.
CAD design and create all types of Orthodontic appliances
With 3Shape’s new Appliance Designer™, users can design modified study models or appliances for output using all types of 3D-driven machines and materials. Easily create nightguards, retainers, customized bands, splints, surgical bites, palatal expanders, bionators, Twin blocks, Herbst appliances, Planas tracks and much more.
Software for complete analysis and treatment planning
OrthoAnalyzer™ provides complete insight into patient cases by simulating treatment plans and applying familiar analyses in a highly efficient and systematic manner. Ortho System™ interfaces to a wide range of patient management systems allowing users to maintain the complete case history in 3D across systems.
On-line communication between labs and clinics
Labs can receive digital impressions directly from the clinic and immediately send feedback or questions. Treatment planning and appliance designs can be discussed online with the lab, patients, referent dentists or other orthodontists.
Open formats for flexibility and 3rd party manufacturing
3Shape’s Ortho System™ lets users create high quality digital study models and appliances in the standard STL file format, allowing labs and practices to choose their service partners or share cases with colleagues. Ortho System™ users can manufacture modified study models or appliances using all types of 3D-driven machines and materials.
Meeting challenges with the best technologies
Orthodontic labs and clinics that are considering a move into digital orthodontics need to make the right choice among systems – a choice that will add business value and expand their possibilities. Some professionals continue to focus on short-term perspectives. 3Shape believes in providing solutions, business models, and services that help orthodontic labs and clinics grow their business and stay ahead, not only for today but also for tomorrow. Here’s how …
Innovation power and orthodontics expertise
With more than 120 full-time developers dedicated to 3D solutions, 3Shape continues to lead the market with strong innovation power. Ortho System™ is the result of close cooperative liaison with orthodontics professionals in the field.
A complete CAD/CAM system for Orthodontics
3Shape’s Ortho System™ covers the complete spectrum of orthodontic services with TRIOS® intra-oral scanners, technology-leading desktop model and impression scanners, digital archiving, communication tools, analysis and treatment planning, and now with CAD design for all kinds of orthodontic appliances.
For both Orthodontic clinics and labs
Ortho System™ links orthodontic clinic and lab workflows. For example, the clinic can take a digital impression with TRIOS® and immediately perform treatment planning with OrthoAnalyser™. In the lab, the digital case is loaded into 3Shape’s Appliance Designer™ to design a customized orthodontic product, ready to be output on 3D driven manufacturing machines.
Open flexible business model
3Shape’s systems are praised worldwide for their versatility and ability to interface with other equipment. The standard data format (STL) guarantees that you own your patient data and can use it without limitations. For example, users can export appliance designs directly to other open systems for appliance manufacturing.
Providing long-term solutions
In an industry influenced by technology changes, escalating globalization, and increasing regulatory demands, 3Shape continues to deliver solutions that help Orthodontic businesses stay competitive. Unlimited upgrading, new functionality, and beneficial interfaces are integral parts of 3Shape’s package and customer promise.
Backing users with care, technology and expertise
3Shape boosts its first-line distributor support network with a second-line support force of over 30 in-house experts placed in 5 support and service centers worldwide. The 3Shape Academy provides hands-on training, webinars, and learning materials to ensure that users can utilize all features of their system.
The 3Shape R700 Scanner with the OrthoAnalyzer is the most
valuable communication tool I have. Digital Study Models are fast and
accurate and the diagnostic tools are truly fantastic. Due to the speed
and ease we have replaced digital photographs with 3D digital scans,
this really impresses our customers.”
Donal P. Inman CDT
President Inman Orthodontic Laboratories (FL, USA)
The age of digital orthodontics is here
Propelled by the technological advances within dentistry as a whole, the field of Orthodontics is moving into the digital era even faster than most have anticipated. However, digitization is not just an industry fact, it is also an opportunity to meet challenges in a highly competitive market. Many dream of “the age of fully digital orthodontics.” With the addition of digital impression-taking and CAD appliance design to its orthodontics offering, 3Shape has now turned that dream into reality.
More and more orthodontic professionals are investing in digital systems. Digital tools provide efficient and accurate impression taking, treatment planning, treatment assessment, and easy communication with partners, patients and colleagues.
CAD/CAM allows orthodontic labs to extend the scope of their services and increase customer loyalty. Labs can offer, manufacturing of digital study models, customized appliance design, and final appliances using rapid manufacturing equipment.
Digital design and manufacturing of appliances releases multiple benefits in terms of reduced costs, increased accuracy, consistent quality and a wider scope of appliance types.
With the combination of faster turnaround times and the attractive prices obtainable by CAD/CAM, traditional labor-intensive methods for planning, analysis and appliance production
are already becoming uncompetitive.
The adoption of digital methods is increasingly defining the success of orthodontics businesses. Whether you are an orthodontic clinic or service lab, it’s better to look at available digital technologies today rather than wait for tomorrow. CAD/CAM for orthodontics provides a way to secure your market share and move ahead of the competition.
Join the world of digital orthodontics – for the future of your business.
3Shape TRIOS® Chairside Digital Impressions
Good ortho treatment starts with a good impression
Orthodontic treatment requires impression capture that is consistent in terms of accuracy and detail, and achieving this through conventional impression-taking can be challenging. Inconsistent quality of the impression too often leads to retakes, patient discomfort, low clinical results, and increased need for adjustments. 3Shape’s TRIOS® digital impression solution solves many problems by providing accurate and fullcoverage impressions from the start.
Benefits for orthodontists
Digital impressions reduce the need for late adjustments or retakes. On-screen visualization allows orthodontists to make modifications as they scan and obtain an optimal impression with the right occlusion information the first time. Digital impressions also add control and reduce the need for corrections during treatment.
• Improved accuracy
• Faster than traditional impression taking
• Reduced need for retakes
• No impression materials and mess
• Cost and time savings related to materials and shipping
Preferred by patients
The patient experience is both faster and more comfortable. Patients’ discomforts related to massive materials in the mouth, long setting times, irritation, and gag reflex problems will simply disappear.
• Quick and comfortable experience
• Improved results
• Reduced number of appointments due to fewer retakes
• Reduced over-all chair-time
3Shape TRIOS®
3Shape TRIOS ® is a next generation impression solution designed to make a difference for orthodontic practices.
• Spray-free for optimal accuracy and patient comfort
• Ultrafast Optical Sectioning™ technology for high speed
• Accurate scanning with up to 1000 3D pictures for true geometries
• Full coverage of palatal and vestibular areas
• Easy to use with complete motion and positioning freedom
• Smart-Touch screen with live 3D visualization
• Instant impression validation
• Online communication with the lab
• Reduced overall turn-around time
Turn-around and case communication like never before
Labs can receive a TRIOS® impression minutes after scanning and immediately start designing model and appliance. Orthodontists can work with either 3Shape labs or any other lab using an open CAD system and TRIOS ® Inbox*. TRIOS® creates compact files of few MB without quality-loss for sending as fast as normal emails. Scans are immediately ready for design – no need to wait days for central scan cleaning as with many other digital impression systems.
Spray-free for optimal accuracy and comfort
Unlike most other intra-oral scanners, 3Shape TRIOS® is a no-spray solution, because spraying is technique demanding, can ruin scan accuracy, is uncomfortable for patients and prolongs chair-time.
Smart Edit Scan Tools – flexible impression taking
TRIOS® lets you edit your scans and easily rescan specific areas instead of starting over when initial results are less than perfect. To recapture specific areas, simply delete the area from the scan and rescan only the relevant region. You can easily remove areas scanned unintentionally, and apply Undo/Redo functions
Instant Clinical Validation
TRIOS® built-in tools for Clinical Validation
will ensure the high quality of the impression while the patient is still in the chair. Occlusal distance color maps help validate captured occlusion. The Insertion Direction tool controls prepared teeth for convergence/ divergence. Rotate and zoom to validate impression quality and add 3D comments for the lab.
3Shape OrthoAnalyzer™ – Digital Archiving and Communication
For streamlined business and stronger partnerships
Digital study models will completely transform the way you manage patient cases. No need for extensive storage and retrieval systems and complete case histories are accessible from anywhere with only a few clicks. 3Shape’s new online communication platform enables efficient and visual discussions about cases between labs, orthodontists, colleagues and patients.
Modern case archiving is digital
Digital archiving of patient cases provides many significant benefits such as reducing storage space plus easy and flexible case access. Storing models digitally enables valuable business aspects such as secure analysis without damage to the model, unlimited treatment simulation, digital manufacturing of appliances, efficient appliance remaking and complete case history paths and reporting.
Communication for better orthodontic services
Advanced communication and visualization tools with 3Shape CommunicateTM enable labs and orthodontists to discuss a patient’s case while viewing the 3D study model on-line. Orthodontists can present comprehensible visualizations of their treatment plans to their patients. Both labs and practices can provide better services, optimize appliances, document their cases, enhance customer satisfaction, and cement business relationships with their partners.
Integration with patient management systems
3Shape’s flexible business model ensures seamless system integration with existing patient management systems so clinics and labs can maintain a single channel for accessing complete patient data and histories. 3Shape’s Ortho System™ interfaces with the market’s leading patient management systems, including OrthoTrac© and Dolphin Imaging©.
3Shape OrthoAnalyzer™ – Diagnostics and Treatment Planning
Leveraging the full power of 3D for better orthodontics
Define and complete accurate case diagnostics and gain immediate insight into your treatment options with OrthoAnalyzer’s™ advanced 3D tools. Users can carry out full treatment simulation, including extractions and interproximal reductions, with detailed tooth movements
summarized for each tooth over time or, they can apply predefined constraints to control tooth movements. Five fully programmable virtual articulators allow to optimize the treatment plan on the patient’s occlusion.
Easy case preparation and diagnostics
You only need to define a tooth’s mesial and distal planes: the software automatically identifies each tooth’s margin line and segments the teeth in a few seconds. The system’s calculated suggestions for segmentation, tooth axis and rotation center can be adapted manually at any time. Use the included diagnostics tools such as overjet, overbite, occlusion maps, standard plane definition etc. to gain instant insight.
Virtual Setups in a few clicks
Ortho System™ makes Virtual Setup so easy that it can even be performed directly in the clinic with only a few clicks. By altering the original digital model, users identify and examine the treatment plan best suited to the case on their screen and control the occlusion dynamically with virtual articulators. Choices are backed by unlimited Undo and Redo functionality. A number of tools such as arc shapes or symmetry guides can be used to guide and validate the treatment simulation.
Detailed treatment planning
All major decisions, including extractions or interproximal stripping, and detailed tooth movements are summarized in reference tables and reported for the setup. Users apply predefined parameters and constraints to one or more teeth at a time for treatment simulation. The software can automatically perform collision control in real time. When ready, you can export your models in STL format for the creation of models or appliances on any manufacturing machine
3Shape OrthoAnalyzer™ – Analysis and Case Validation
When insight, efficiency and accuracy matter
3Shape recognizes that orthodontics is a specialty with many individual workflow preferences. OrthoAnalyzer™ allows users to fully customize their orthodontic case analyses and match them to their specific methods and needs. The powerful analysis solution offered by OrthoAnalyzer™ lets users freely select and combine the different analysis tools, and organize these into logical workflows. This ensures analysis consistency across cases, user-efficiency and optimal quality of orthodontic results.
Analyses that match the way YOU work
3Shape continuously seeks ways to help orthodontic professionals through intuitive workflows. That’s why Ortho Analyzer™ includes an extensive analysis toolkit that can be applied and organized to suit your specific needs and own
practice of orthodontics. 3Shape’s analysis processes are designed to replicate familiar steps -that are empowered and accelerated by added 3D technologies.
Questionnaires configurable analysis wizards
3Shape’s new and unique Questionnaire feature enables easy application of even the most complex analysis workflows. Questionnaires are configured to match your analysis requirements and during analysis, they function as wizards that guide even novice users, step-by-step, through complete analysis. Questionnaires ensure consistency of methods and results while enabling users to easily compute scores for case validations -such as PAR or ABO discrepancy indices.
Comparing before and after treatment
Ortho Analyzer™ lets you easily compare the Before and After treatment situations of your cases. Retrieve any digital models from any step in the case history. The powerful 3D software and tools help you to align your case models perfectly and take any number of measurements to assess deviations and gauge the success of the orthodontic treatment.
3Shape Appliance Designer™
Finally, …Orthodontic CAD/CAM for all laboratories
Appliance Designer™ is the first CAD program dedicated to the creation of all types of orthodontic appliances. It finally gives laboratories of all sizes access to the technologies that will drive the future of orthodontics. Appliance Designer™ provides a powerful and flexible toolbox to create high-quality appliance design in which standard parts or components can easily be incorporated . Users can output modified study models or appliances using all types of 3D-driven machines and materials.
Boosting ortho business with CAD/CAM
CAD/CAM technologies for Orthodontics are merging mass production and individual customization of appliances into fast, cost-efficient workflows. The design and manufacturing results achieved digitally are extremely accurate and consistent, reliably giving perfect results for the patient. User-friendly and intuitive tools enable reduced production times compared to traditional methods and training costs are kept down to a
minimum. Labs can produce a wider range of requested appliance types, opening new business opportunities.
Designed to meet orthodontic requirements
Appliance Designer™ is the result of 3Shape’s proven expertise within 3D scanning and CAD/CAM solutions. Appliance Designer™ leverages the
high accuracy of 3Shape’s 3D scanners to create appliances optimally matched to individual patient needs. Users apply measuring tools to validate critical design features and can fully manage undercuts, including removal or retention. Optimize appliance designs with the software’s five virtual articulators.
Intuitive workflows for increased productivity
Transfer your specific orthodontic skills directly into 3D with this unique application. Freely arrange all construction elements and save these in reusable workflows to reapply with other patients. Saving design templates allows labs to easily and efficiently implement and share complete design workflows across PCs or production sites.
3Shape Appliance Designer™ – Complete Toolbox
The only CAD/CAM toolbox you will ever need for all your orthodontic appliances
Users of Appliance Designer™ get a complete toolbox for the creation of all types of appliances. The toolbox is modular so orthodontic professionals can continually match their system to current and future needs. Customize, save, and reapply your proven workflows for any type of appliance. Easily create and reproduce night guards, retainers, customized bands, splints, surgical bites, palatal expanders, bionators, Twin blocks, Herbst appliances, Planas tracks and much more.
Unique tools and infinite combinations
Your tools can be combined in any way to achieve the perfect design results. Easily create shelling with a constant offset and bars from predefined 2D profiles. Freely add, subtract or combine any created (or imported) 3D models. Instantly assess your design results on screen. Import and visualize external models on screen as gauges or construction guides.
ID tags, STL file libraries and Sculpt Toolkits
ID tags allow you to easily identify the models of appliance for production and tracking. User-defined STL file libraries ensure an optimal and accurate adaptation of the appliance’s design to the geometry of standard parts for easy assembly of the final product. Flexible sculpt tools provide complete control when adjusting critical design features.
Virtual Articulation
Appliance Designer™ includes five fully programmable virtual articulators. Users can digitally adapt their appliance design according to the treatment plan’s observed or target occlusion and thereby create functional appliances optimized for comfort and efficiency. Virtual articulation provides a fast and highly precise way to carry out a traditionally tedious manual task digitally.
3Shape Appliance Designer™ – Flexible Business Models
Many interface and manufacturing options
Appliance Designer™ gives orthodontic labs new opportunities to expand their business with profitable services while meeting future technology challenges. The system’s flexibility allows labs to enter the digital arena according to the business model of their choice. The CAD/CAM system helps labs implement new orthodontic skills, achieve high precision for customized parts, and lower production costs while maintaining high quality standards.
Choose your output
Appliance Designer is a versatile tool with many output options. Users can export modified working models, for example after removal of selected undercuts, for manual appliance manufacturing in the lab. The modeled appliance part itself can be exported for direct manufacturing on any type of digital manufacturing machine. Or, finally, the software can create a mould to be used with traditional biocompatible materials. Several parts can easily be sent to different machines for manual assembly.
Flexible manufacturing options
Design files from Appliance Designer can be used on any type of computer-driven manufacturing equipment, also through outsourcing to production centers. These modeled files can thus be produced on
any of the following equipment:
– 3D printing in wax or resin for investment casting in metal;
– 3D printing or stereolithography of the modified model for manual manufacturing;
– Direct 3D Printing in biocompatible materials;
– Direct milling of the parts in any available material (zirconia, biocompa-
tible, metal etc).
More possibilitie with 3Shape’s digital solutions
Appliance Designer™ interfaces with 3Shape’s Dental System™, one of the world’s most widespread CAD/CAM systems for dental labs, opening your doors to new possibilities, services, and materials. 3Shape’s advanced communication tools let you immediately share digital designs online. 3Shape CAMbridge™ prepares and optimizes your digital designs for the selected materials and manufacturing equipmen
3Shape has firmly established its position as a leading industry
pacesetter for breakthrough developments in 3D scanners and
CAD/CAM technologies. More than 250 employees and over 120
developers work daily to bring 3Shape’s innovative solutions to dental
professionals worldwide. 3Shape is a global company and its offices
span the world with presence in Europe, Asia and the Americas.