Out with the Old, in with the New

Mike Skramstad

14 years ago

One of the most stressful life experiences I've ever had is selling a house and preparing to move. Living in a staged home and trying to sell in this difficult market can strain every aspect of your life. Well the day finally came, and we sold our home. Stress over, right? Not even close...

Now comes sifting through 10 years of accumulated things in your house and packing the things you actually 'need' in boxes ready for the big move. An interesting thing happens when you do this. Of course you find things that you forgot you even had, but you also find many things that give you a moment of reflection of where you've been and where you are now.

One of the things that I found was a box of all my CEREC installation disks and instructions. And let me tell you, there were a lot. As I was looking through them, the earliest one I found was from 2003. This was version 2.10 R1500. For those of you who have no clue to the exciting possibilities that this software introduced, one of them was...the DROP TOOL. This seems silly now, but back then, it was the best thing ever. There was no form tool, no step bur, and we hadn't even begun to talk about biogenerics!

When I think back to this and then look forward to all of you getting your hands on the new 4.0 software, it really outlines the journey that the CEREC software has taken all of us on. From these little, simple tools that got us all excited some eight years ago, to now the Bluecam and the completely new graphical interface of the 4.0 software. It really is quite amazing.

So 10 years from now when we find the 4.0 software sitting in the bottom of a box in the basement, we again may chuckle compared to where we are now. The possibilities seem endless.