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Planmeca dental imaging software expands

June 7, 2010
Full Mac OS support and tools for more accurate implant placement.
The Finnish company Planmeca Oy, a leading dental equipment and software manufacturer, has released 2.4 version of its dental imaging software Planmeca Romexis.The software features Mac OS support for all Planmeca’s X-ray units at a dental practice, as well as tools intended for enhanced and accurate implant planning.With the Planmeca Romexis software, whatever the diagnostic requirement, images can be acquired, viewed, processed, and stored in either Mac OS or MS Windows environment. The software’s Apple compatibility also makes it possible to send 2D and 3D images acquired with Planmeca X-ray units to an iPhone or iPad with one click. The feature is currently supported with the OsiriX Mobile application. This allows viewing, rotating and zooming of images, and measuring distances in iPhone or iPad. Other features introduced in spring 2010 facilitate smoother and more accurate implant placement. With the new implant verification tool, planning and evaluating an implant's fit is simple. It allows examination of the implant in relation to the surrounding anatomy by visualising slice views and average HU-values in the proximity of the implant. When using implant verification, the 3D volume rotates around the implant’s vertical axis. The centre of the axis is on the current implant. This allows the user to focus on the implant site. To virtually plan the implant placement accurately, Planmeca Romexis also includes an implant library containing a comprehensive selection of realistic implant models from several manufacturers such as Antrogyr, Astra, Biotech, Bredent, Friadent, GC, Straumann, Zimmer. More are scheduled to follow. The realistic implants are shown in cross sectional, axial and panoramic views and in rendered 3D view. “An imaging software is the heart of any dental clinic with X-ray imaging devices,” said Helianna Puhlin-Nurminen, vice president for the digital imaging and applications division at Planmeca Oy. "A software’s most important tasks are to smooth the acquiring process and to guarantee the quality of the images. Planmeca Romexis is an intuitive software with numerous tools and functionalities for image enhancement and measurement, drawing and annotations, improving the diagnostic value of the radiographs."Planmeca Romexis is an advanced software suite that inclues the dental imaging modalities of intraoral, panoramic, cephalometric, 3D imaging, dental tomography, as well as photos and intraoral video imaging. It integrates with a variety of third-party equipment using the industry standard TWAIN interface, as well as with third- party software, and communicates via the DICOM standard. Furthermore, it enables centralized and remote dental unit maintenance.For more information, go to www.planmeca.com.To read more about Planmeca, go to Planmeca.To comment on this product, go to .