Sirona Announces No Scan Fees

Sameer Puri D.D.S.

14 years ago

Sirona has just announced that anyone who wants to get a digital impressioning system can buy the BlueCam with the CEREC Connect software for only $26,000 and NO scan fees. In the past, every digital impression system would have the base cost (anywhere from $25,000 to $27,000) and then the user would have to pay a scan fee of $25 to $30 every time they took a scan of the patient. By eliminating the scan fee, Sirona just reduced the cost of getting into digital impressions by about $30K! Imagine - you can send unlimited impressions, and other than the cost of the system, there is no additional cost. No more PVS, no more trays! It's all done digitally. It will be curious to see how the other systems out there respond to this, and whether Itero and Lava will do the same. If so, the cost of digital impressions will come way down. I'm glad to see the manufacturers taking such an aggressive stance. My opinion is that some day there will be a generation of dental students who will go through school and will never take a physical impression with PV; that taking a PVS impression will be as foreign to them as taking a copper band impression is to us. The next logical step is to add chairside milling, which all of us CEREC users already know. But congratulations to the people who are about to at least get their feet wet with digital impressions.