Evaluation of the Scanning Accuracy of Scanners Operating With Different Scanning Technologies in Mandibular and Maxillary Edentulous Ridges

At Ege University Faculty of Dentistry Department of Prosthodontics, Type 4 (hard) plaster will be used to obtain models by taking impressions with Type A silicone impression material from 30 patients undergoing treatment for lower and/or upper complete (total) dentures who meet the inclusion criteria for the study. The model will be scanned using an industrial EOS scanner (E4 lab scanner, 3shape, Denmark). Three digital scans will be taken from each patient using three different IOS scanners (Trios 5 (Henry Schein Dental, Gillingham, Kent, UK), Medit i700 (Seoul, South Korea), and iTero Lumina (Align Technologies, San Jose, California, USA)), with each patient scanned three times using each scanner. The obtained data will be evaluated with a 3D analysis software program (Geomagic Studio 2015; 3D Systems Inc., Darmstadt, Germany) to match the traditional plaster model (reference) data. For normally distributed data, one-way ANOVA and post hoc Bonferroni test will be performed; for non-normally distributed data, Bonferroni and Kruskal-Wallis tests will be performed. Intergroup comparisons will be tested using the Tukey HSD test. All statistical analyses will be performed using statistical software (IBM SPSS Statistics, v22.0; IBM Corp., USA). It will be investigated whether there is a statistically significant difference in scanning accuracy between the three intraoral scanners. The study will evaluate three different scanning technologies: Active Triangulation (Medit i700, Seoul, South Korea), Confocal Microscopy technologies (Trios 5, Henry Schein Dental, Gillingham, Kent, UK), and Multi-unit-capture technologies (iTero Lumina, Align Technologies, San Jose, California, USA). A review of the literature reveals that there are few studies evaluating scanners with different technologies in terms of scanning technologies. The aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of scanners with different scanning technologies in completely edentulous arches.