ORTHO INDUSTRY NEWS Yomi Robot Surpasses 10,000 Dental Implants Placed and for full-arch dental implant procedures in 2020. Yomi ® is the first and only FDA-cleared robot-assisted dental surgery system and provides assis-tance in both the planning (pre-operative) and the surgical (intra-operative) phases of dental implant surgery. The system provides clinicians the unique ability to accurately plan and place dental implants with physical, haptic guidance not available in other treatment options. “Yomi has allowed me to deliver quality treatment with unsurpassed levels of accuracy and precision,” raves New York oral and maxillofa-cial surgeon and Yomi user, Jay Neugarten DDS, MD, FACS. “As great as this technology is today, I can't wait to see what the future holds for Yomi. It's a true game-changer for dental surgery.” Brace Bus: Georgia Orthodontist Outfits Bus for Mobile Dental Care Clinicians have placed over 10,000 dental implants using the Yomi ® dental robotic platform, the company reported on Jan. 7, 2022. Yomi gained FDA clearance for dental implant procedures in 2016 Dr. David Carter is an orthodon-tist in Atlanta, GA and his new office is a big yellow school bus. The pre-owned bus was gutted inside last year and outfitted with professional dental gear. It has been parked at various locations along the Atlanta Beltline. “So instead of the patients having to go far to come to us, we get really close to them,” he said. Carter calls it the dental office of the future. It’s not a full-sized bus, so he doesn’t need a commercial driver’s license. Dr. Carter says his mobile dental office has been so popular that he’s going to get a second bus. Dental 3D Printing Market Expands Dental 3D printing is a tech-nique used to find new ways to fix broken teeth and make flossing easier. According to a recent report, the global dental 3D market is valued at $1.3 billion and expected to grow 9% in the next 10 years. The global rise in the prevalence of dental disorders such as tooth loss, decay, malocclusion, and peri-odontal diseases; and more empha-sis on esthetics are fueling the demand for dental implants, crowns & bridges, and dentures. Advancements in technology and development of new software enable dentists to produce rapid, smooth, and precise dental models with enhanced efficiency. This also helps provide a seamless dental 3D printing workflow. As a result, technical progress is vital for the growth of the global dental 3D printing market. New technologies are being employed to efficiently in the U.S. are wholly edentulous, while another 12 million are edentulous in one arch. Every year, approximately 15 million people in the U.S. receive crown and bridge replacements for miss-ing teeth. This is likely to drive the market in North America in the near future. Dental caries has become the leading cause of dental diseases in North America. It is expected to continue to rise in the near future, as the popula-tion ages and people lead unhealthy lifestyles. The American Dental Association states that the number of children receiving dental care has been rising. This is prompting private and public sectors to provide insurance cover-age policies for dental treatment. To read the full report, visit www.transparencymarketresearch.c om/sample/sample.php?flag=B&rep _id=18005. create dental products of high quality by using minimal resources and limited labor hours. North America held major share of the global dental 3D printing market in 2020, due to the pres-ence of large population suffering from dental issues, rise in adoption of polymer-based dental products, and increase in research funding for dental 3D printers in the U.S. According to the American College of Prosthodontists (ACP), currently, 23 million individuals 6 Winter 2022 JAOS
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