Dr. Armen Mirzayan and Damien Bonner from CAD-Ray join Alan for a deep dive into digital dentistry. Armen presented at the Francis B. Vedder Society last weekend and he crushed it. We have a discussion covering lots of topics!

• The history of the Vedder Society
• How Armen and Damien got in to digital dentistry
• CAD-Ray is a service company that sells digital stuff (scanners, CBCTs, printers, mills, etc.)
• How dental meetings have changed
• Armen and Damien are scanner agnostic...you can get there with any scanner
• The fundamentals of scanning are the same, no matter tha scanner
• Scan paths and how to scan quickly and effectively
• Why is it hard to scan anterior teeth? (spoiler: incisal enamel)
• Start at "home base," your purchase point
• The most scanned mouth in all of dentistry is Armen's
• Speed of scan is basically a feature of the size of the scanning area
• Scanning softwares are like iPhone vs. Android
• What makes a good dental technology company?
• Medit and their free software suite
• A story about Dr. Cory Glenn

Some links from the show:

• CAD-Ray
• CAD-Ray courses/events
• Shining 3D Aoralscan Elite
• The Vedder Society Celebrates 60 Years of CE
• CAD-Ray Fixes Scanner, Al Gets Taco Bell
• Francis B. Vedder Society

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