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Noeikon Wants to Put Diagnostic AI Inside the Wand—Why This New Scanner Launch Is Worth Watching
There is no shortage of AI language in digital dentistry right now, but a newly surfaced scanner project called Noeikon is making a more specific claim than most. On its official site, the company describes its system as the only intraoral scanner with AI inside the wand itself, positioning onboard diagnostic processing—not just cloud-connected analysis—as…
SDI Matrix Is Bringing Jaw Tracking, Muscle Analysis and Exocad-Ready Planning Into One Workflow
As of Tuesday, July 28, 2026, SDI Matrix is positioning itself less as a single device vendor and more as a connected functional-diagnostics platform for digitally driven dentistry. Across its official product pages, the company presents a workflow that combines jaw tracking, muscle analysis, facial data, CBCT integration and laboratory export into one planning chain.…
NikolasBase by Edison Medical Wants to Solve One of Digital Full-Arch’s Most Persistent Problems: Passive Fit
Most new product launches in digital implant prosthetics promise speed, simplicity, or broader compatibility. NikolasBase by Edison Medical is taking a different route. Its pitch is not really about faster design or prettier software screens. It is about something far more important in full-arch and multi-unit work: passive fit. That makes it interesting. According to…
Edentulous Intraoral Scanning Is Growing Up—But the Real Breakthrough Is Better Reference Control
Edentulous intraoral scanning has always been a test of control rather than a test of raw scanner speed. That distinction matters. In dentate cases, scanners can rely on teeth as stable landmarks. In edentulous arches, those landmarks disappear. What remains is mobile soft tissue, long spans, repetitive anatomy, and a much greater risk that small…
RobOralScan Teaches a Robot to Perform Intraoral Scans—But 8 of 10 Simulated Successes Are Not Clinical Autonomy
Standfirst: A new reinforcement-learning system chooses scanner movements from a growing three-dimensional memory of the dental arch. RobOralScan reached 92.58% average coverage and completed 8 of 10 evaluation episodes, then transferred to a physical robot without additional training. The work is a robotics preprint, however—not a patient study or a market-ready dental device. Researchers have…
TruAbutment T-Marker Puts Full-Arch Photogrammetry on an iPad—Does a 49-µm Pilot Study Change the Cost Equation?
Standfirst: T-Marker uses coded scan bodies, an iPad Pro or recent iPhone Pro and a subscription app to record multi-unit abutment positions. A new one-patient clinical study reported lower linear and angular discrepancies than an intraoral-scanner workflow, but it did not test prosthesis fit, long-term outcomes or performance across varied arches. TruAbutment’s T-Marker attempts to…
DEXIS Imprevo Promises 40-FPS Wireless Scanning—But the Workstation May Be the Hidden Purchase
DEXIS Imprevo combines 40-FPS wireless scanning, dual-sensor imaging and IS ScanFlow 2.0—but buyers should price the workstation, network and software around the handpiece.
Digital Journey Bucharest 2026 Will Put Connected Workflows—and Their Evidence—Under the Spotlight
Standfirst: The three-day Digital Journey Bucharest congress will bring an international faculty to Romania on September 25–27, 2026, with a programme spanning jaw-motion tracking, AI-assisted diagnostics, implant rehabilitation, orthodontics and CAD/CAM. Its most interesting proposition is not any single technology, but the attempt to connect digital records with functional treatment decisions. Bucharest will host a…
Dentsply Sirona’s Smart View Detect Is FDA-Cleared for CBCT AI—But Its Indication Is Narrower Than the Headline
Standfirst: Smart View Detect can flag permanent teeth that may show periapical radiolucency on an existing CBCT scan. The FDA data indicate a meaningful gain in reader sensitivity, but the software is not a general CBCT interpreter, does not justify taking a scan and does not replace a complete clinical review. Dentsply Sirona has launched…