In-House Diagnostic & Fabrication Technology
Advanced technologies that help diagnose, plan, and fabricate complex restorative cases with greater precision — including CBCT imaging, digital facebow analysis, T-Scan bite analysis, Medit intraoral scanning, Icam photogrammetry, and Einstein 3D printing with Flexera resin and Autoflash curing.
All integrated into one coordinated digital workflow, performed in-house by Dr. Andrus and his team.
Why Advanced Diagnostics Matter
Most patients never need this level of diagnostic technology. But full-mouth reconstruction, implant rehabilitation, bite collapse, severe wear, TMJ instability, and complex restorative cases sometimes require far more than traditional impressions and basic imaging.
Dr. Andrus often uses a coordinated digital workflow to capture jaw position, bite force, bone anatomy, facial structure, and implant planning data with a level of precision older methods could not provide. That information allows treatment to be planned digitally before procedures begin — reducing guesswork and improving accuracy throughout the restorative process.
Every technology below serves a specific purpose within that workflow. Together, they help create restorations that are more precise, more predictable, and better coordinated from diagnosis through final delivery.
Precision Dentistry
Cone Beam Computed Tomography produces a true 3D volumetric image of the jaw, sinuses, nerves, and remaining bone — the foundation for accurate implant planning, surgical guide design, and any reconstruction case where the bone anatomy matters. Doses are a fraction of a medical CT, captured in seconds.
A facebow records the exact spatial relationship between the upper teeth and the temporomandibular joints. That registration is transferred to a semi-adjustable articulator so any restoration — crown, bridge, denture, or full reconstruction — is fabricated on a model that mirrors how the patient's jaw actually moves, not an estimate.
T-Scan uses a thin pressure-sensing wafer to capture, frame-by-frame, exactly which teeth contact first, which carry the most force, and how the bite sequence unfolds over time. Where carbon paper shows only that contacts exist, T-Scan shows their magnitude and timing — the difference between adjusting blindly and adjusting with data.
The Medit i700 captures a high-resolution digital impression of the teeth and soft tissue without trays, putty, or the gag-reflex problem. Scans flow directly into the lab's CAD software for crown, bridge, implant restoration, and surgical-guide design — eliminating the dimensional distortion that traditional impression material can introduce.
For full-arch implant cases, Icam photogrammetry uses calibrated optical markers to capture the exact 3D position of every implant in space — accuracy that exceeds what conventional impression or scanning methods can achieve at full-arch span. The data drives the design of zero-misfit fixed bridges and All-on-4 / All-on-6 restorations.
In-house Einstein 3D printers fabricate surgical guides, study models, denture try-ins, and prosthetic prototypes using Flexera resin for clinical-grade durability and the Autoflash curing system for predictable post-cure mechanical properties. Same-day fabrication; design changes can be reprinted in hours rather than days through a third-party lab.
How It Comes Together
Common Questions
Prosthodontics is the specialty that handles the most complex restorative cases — full-mouth reconstructions, implant rehabilitations, bite reconstructions, post-surgical rehabilitations. The technology isn't decoration. CBCT plans implants safely around nerves and sinuses; the facebow and T-Scan get the bite right on cases where patients have lost the bite they had; Medit and Icam capture the case digitally with sub-100-micron accuracy; the Einstein printers turn that digital plan into physical guides, models, and prototypes in-house. Each tool answers a specific clinical question that older methods couldn't answer reliably.
Not in the way patients usually think. The technology shortens treatment timelines, reduces remakes, and prevents the kind of avoidable do-over (an implant placed in the wrong position, a crown that knocks the bite out of balance) that costs far more in time and money to fix than to prevent. Most cases finish faster, with fewer visits, and with restorations that last because the foundation was diagnosed correctly to begin with.
No. Simple cases use a small subset — a digital scan and a CBCT, for example. Complex cases — full-mouth reconstructions, full-arch implants — use the full toolchain because the case actually requires it. Dr. Andrus selects the tools the diagnosis calls for, not the tools the patient pays a premium for.
Diagnostic Precision & In-House Fabrication
Schedule a consultation with Dr. Andrus — we'll capture the diagnostic records that fit your case and walk you through what the data shows.