ANN ARBOR, MI — Dentistry at the University of Michigan has just gone digital.
UM School of Dentistry students and faculty members can now access the university’s new Digital Dentistry Center in Ann Arbor. The equipment includes machines that perform intra-oral scans and produce polished dentures and dental guards.
“It used to take several hours to mill these teeth, now it takes five minutes,” Dr. Carlos Gonzalez, associate dean for academic affairs at the UM School of Dentistry, said. “If you do it with one of the faculty, they can do it within 15 minutes.”…