Align Technology Debuts Enhancements to its iTero Scanner Technology

Align Technology Inc. has augmented its iTero intraoral scanner product lineup to provide general practitioner (GP) dentists with a more versatile overall solution.

The new digital solutions offer a holistic approach for GP dentists that supports patient interaction about diverse treatment options in oral health, restorative, and aesthetic dentistry, according to the company.

• Align Oral Health Suite enhances patient-driven interest and engagement with iTero Element Plus series and iTero Lumina scan images set up within clinical findings to help drive doctor-patient conversations about treatment options. The all-in-one chairside consultation can help patients better understand the possible oral health conditions and associated root causes. GP practices that regularly used iTero scanners and the Align Oral Health Suite experienced a 9% higher estimated monthly revenue versus those that did not use the Align Oral Health Suite.*
• Invisalign Outcome Simulator Pro is a patient communication tool on iTero Element Plus Series and Lumina imaging systems that generate an in-face simulated rendering of a patient’s teeth after an orthodontic treatment or ortho-restorative treatment. The new Invisalign Outcome Simulation Pro with multi treatment simulations offers two types of simulations chairside: Invisalign for ortho-only, and Invisalign Smile Architect for ortho-restorative.
• iTero Design Suite is available for all iTero models with a full service plan and offers doctors an intuitive way to facilitate designs for 3D printing of models, bite splints, and restorations chair-side. This software innovation is designed to help doctors increase their practice efficiency and elevate patients’ experience by shortening the time to treatment through an intuitive way to design for in-practice 3D printing of items such as models, bite splints, and restorations. The Align Digital Platform provides a portfolio of doctor-focused technologies that enables seamless end-to-end workflows.

“The iTero intraoral scanner innovations introduced will enable doctors to present a variety of options to their patients, supporting chairside education and communication, that helps deliver a great patient experience and supports patients making informed choices about their dental treatment in consultation with their doctor,” said Karim Boussebaa, Align Technology executive vice president and managing director for the iTero scanner and services business. “In today’s modern digital dentistry practice, the iTero intraoral scanner can help increase patient understanding and treatment acceptance, and help drive adoption of the Align Digital Platform, a proprietary combination of software, systems, and services designed to provide a seamless experience and workflow that integrates and connects all users—doctors, labs, patients, and consumers.”

The Align Oral Health Suite is available on the iTero Element Plus Series and Lumina scanners.

Align Technology designs and manufactures the Invisalign System, iTero intraoral scanners and services, and exocad CAD/CAM software. These technology building blocks enable enhanced digital orthodontic and restorative workflows to improve patient outcomes and practice efficiencies for more than 271,000 doctor customers and are key to accessing Align’s 600 million consumer market opportunity worldwide. Over the past 27 years, Align has helped doctors treat approximately 18.9 million patients with the Invisalign System and is driving the evolution in digital dentistry through the Align Digital Platform, its integrated suite of proprietary technologies and services delivered as a seamless, end-to-end solution for patients and consumers, orthodontists and GP dentists, and lab/partners.

*Based on a calculated median difference of 1H2024 production revenue between North American GP practices with regular daily usage of the iTero scanner and the Align Oral Health Suite (n=69) versus GP practices that did not use the Align Oral Health Suite (n=636). Data accounted for varying clinic patient volumes. The Align Oral Health Suite is only available on iTero Lumina and iTero Element Plus Series scanners. Data on File at Align Technology, as of Sept. 3, 2024.