I had an opportunity today to do a case that made me appreciate the accuracy of the Omnicam. The adjacent tooth had an old alloy, that when a brand new emax was placed on the prep, would mark the contact area. Most of the time I would place the crown and check for the desired “ snap” of floss. Didn’t have any real way of seeing where the contact area was, just a way to test the intensity.

With the rolling of the camera when doing the video capture of the patient's arch we capture the complete anatomy of the prep and the adjacent teeth. You capture the profile accurately and you can generate the contact in the perfect location and the perfect intensity. In the past with the Bluecam there were times where, due to not imaging the complete inter-proximal surface for fear of data averaging, the contact was not ideal. It was light or it was not in the correct spot.

I am not advocating that you place alloys on the teeth adjacent to the CEREC you are doing, but it is nice to see when there is one there that is already accurate for the whole process.