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EXOCAD PRESENTS NEW SOFTWARE RELEASES AT THE IDS IN COLOGNE

World premieres and many innovations at IDS 100 year anniversary

exocad, an Align Technology, Inc. company and a leading dental CAD/
CAM software provider, announced multiple new products and service
offerings, two limited-time software discounts, and a full spectrum of
live education opportunities for attendees at the International Dental
Show (IDS) 2023. With 11 demo stations and hourly live smile design
sessions, exocad invited attendees to “Imagine the CADabilities” and
discover its many software solutions for labs and clinics at the company’s
newly branded booth in Koelnmesse’s hall 1. exocad’s Smile Creator
Experience, the step-by-step live demo on how to use Smile Creator,
took center stage as visitors stopped by to see the smile design process
in person and ask the team of experts questions.
New products and services
At IDS, exocad introduced the final three releases of its 3.1 Rijeka
software series: exoplan 3.1 Rijeka, for prosthetic-driven implant
planning and surgical guide design, ChairsideCAD 3.1 Rijeka, for Team exocad at the new branded booth
single-visit dentistry, and PartialCAD 3.1 Rijeka, for partial framework TruSmile Video, a new anterior tooth design is presented in a short
design. The new software solutions include all the hallmarks of exocad video that shows the Smile Creator design, AI technology generates
software– stability, robustness, ease of use and an open architecture a realistic video to help increase patient understanding of potential
that allows seamless workflows and smooth integrations with users’ treatment outcomes. Visitors were captivated by the realism of the
hardware of choice. AI patient videos and the new possibilities they offer.
New AI-enhanced visualization for patient acceptance The newly developed 3D face scan app enables realistic 3D scans
Attendees showed great interest in the presentation of two upcoming, of patients’ faces via a mobile phone camera, without any additional
highly innovative software solutions for patient acceptance. With hardware.

Dental screw stuck in lung, operation saves him

Doctors at KRIMS Hospital in Nagpur recently stuck in the right lung. “If not removed, it would have
dealt with the rare case of a man coughing hard been a life-threatening condition for the patient,” said
and accidentally inhaling a dental implant screw pulmonologist Dr Parimal Deshpande, who conducted
the dentist was fixing in his teeth. The man was the bronchoscopic removal of the screw along with Dr
rushed to the hospital after an x-ray confirmed Swapnil Bakamwar. The patient was immediately better
the screw was lodged in his right lung, and it and is now doing well.
was removed using a bronchoscope. The dentist “It was an accident. Thankfully, the dental surgeon was
first thought the patient had suffered a normal aware and he suspected that the implant screw could be
coughing episode, which may happen during stuck in the lung. The alert doctor decided to bring the
dental procedures. The dentist conducted an patient to a lung hospital, which saved the patient,” said
x-ray of his chest and saw the implant screw Dr Deshpande.

90% reservation for men in Army Dental Corps: Supreme Court frowns

The Supreme Court (SC) has slammed that depriving women from competing
the defence services for leaving only with men equally was not only against
10% vacancies for recruitment of Article 15 but also amounted to
women in the Army Dental Corps “putting the clock in reverse direction.
(ADC), with 90% posts kept for males. The original petition was filed by
The apex court observed that Dr Gopika Nair from Coimbatore.
prima facie, the stand of the Army to Meanwhile, highly placed sources
allow males up to the rank of 2394 to confirmed that the central government
participate and females only up to rank had not passed any orders on
of 235, was discriminatory. The SC has reservation for males in ADC, but the
also observed that women candidates decision has been taken internally by
who were 10 times more meritorious the Armed Forces Medical Services
were being ignored for recruitment, and (AFMS) head.

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