Tekscan’s proprietary electronic force measuring element contained within the sensor matrix. When the patient occludes upon an HD sensor and opposing tooth contacts is compress the top and bottom sensor surfaces, a change in the applied force at the various tooth contacts results in a change in the resistance of the resistive ink in each of the contacted sensels. Higher applied contact force produces larger resistance changes and lower occlusal contact force produces lesser resistance changes. A large HD sensor contains 1370 sensels. A small HD sensor contains 1122 sensels.
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T-Scan 10 Recording Dynamics, System Features, and Clinician User Skills Required for T-Scan Chairside Mastery
Robert Anselmi (McGill University, Canada) and Robert B. Kerstein, DMD (Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, USA & Private Dental Practice Limited to Prosthodontics, USA)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 94
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9254-9.ch004
Abstract
The newly designed T-Scan 10 Computerized Occlusal Analysis system represents the state of the art in occlusal diagnosis. The reliability of the system's high definition recording sensors, the many occlusal analysis timing and force software features, and the modern-day computer hardware electronics that record occlusal function in 0.003 second real-time increments, affords a clinician unparalleled occlusal contact timing and force information, with which to predictably diagnose and treat many occlusal abnormalities. T-Scan 10 represents the culmination of 34 years of T-Scan technology innovation development. T-Scan 10 has revised desktop graphics with additional toolbar buttons that enhance T-Scan functionality and improve chairside T-Scan clinical implementation. The system's most recent important advancement, discussed in this chapter, is the melding of T-Scan digital occlusal force and timing data with digitally-scanned dental arches to overlay T-Scan data on a patient's virtual arch. This is a major system upgrade that inserts the T-Scan technology directly into the digital dentistry revolution presently arising in dental medicine. The chapter details the five useful diagnostic occlusal recordings employed when treating commonly observed occlusal problems, and lastly outlines the three learning levels of T-Scan mastery that must be accomplished for a clinician to become an effective and competent T-Scan user.