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  • Full-arch dental impressions: Conventional, digital, and photogrammetric techniques

    Advances in digital dentistry now permit the fabrication of full-arch prosthetic restorations through a fully digital workflow, extending from impression acquisition to the production of the definitive prosthesis. Intraoral scanning has become an acceptable alternative to conventional impression techniques, providing valuable information for diagnosis, restorative dentistry, orthodontic analysis, and implant-supported prosthodontics. Despite the many advantages offered by digital methods, conventional impression techniques using polyether, polyvinyl siloxane, and vinyl siloxanether materials remain widely used by clinicians because of their excellent dimensional stability and well-documented precision. This review compares and critically discusses conventional and digital impression techniques for acquiring full-arch dental registrations, with particular attention to their accuracy, advantages, limitations, and clinical indications. The accuracy of digital impressions is strongly influenced by inter-implant distance, scan span length, scan body geometry and material, scanner type, operator experience, and intraoral conditions such as mobile mucosa, saliva, and limited anatomical landmarks. For single-unit and short-span restorations of up to four or five units, intraoral scanning achieves accuracy comparable to that of conventional techniques. In long-span and full-arch restorations, however, accuracy tends to decline owing to cumulative image-stitching errors and the scarcity of reference points, a problem that is especially pronounced in completely edentulous arches. Photogrammetry has emerged as a promising alternative for the reliable registration of multiple implant positions, although it inadequately captures peri-implant soft tissues. Overall, technique selection depends primarily on the number of teeth or implants and the distance between them; conventional methods remain preferable for completely edentulous patients, whereas digital workflows are suitable for restorations spanning up to three or four implants. Despite persisting limitations, digital techniques are strong candidates to eventually outperform conventional approaches in dentistry.
    Full-arch impression, conventional impression, digital impression, intraoral scanner, photogrammetry, implant-supported prosthesis, impression accuracy
    Ebru Sümer Ekin
    27.08.2026
    e260826
    Abstract Views: 225 Download: 71 DOI 10.5577/jomdi.e260826
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