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Intraoral Photogrammetry

Advanced Full-Arch Implant Scanning with IPG

Intraoral Photogrammetry combines precise implant-position capture with intraoral scanning to support efficient digital workflows for All-on-X, complete-arch and complex implant restorations.

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The technology

What Is Intraoral Photogrammetry?

Intraoral Photogrammetry, or IPG, is a digital method used to record the three-dimensional positions and angles of dental implants.

Encoded scan bodies are connected to the implants and captured from multiple angles. The system analyses the geometric relationships between these reference points to calculate the spatial position of each implant.

When combined with intraoral scanning, the workflow can capture implant positions together with the patient’s teeth, gingiva and other intraoral anatomy.

  • Implant Position and Angulation
  • Teeth and Gingival Anatomy
  • Digital Restorative Data
Outline diagram of a dental arch with encoded scan bodies on four implants, the reference network between them, and a scanner capturing from multiple angles

Encoded scan bodies on the implants, the reference relationships the system solves, and the scanner capturing them from several directions.

Step by step

How the Apex IPG Workflow Works

Six steps from the request to the finished restoration. Open a step — hover it, or tap on a phone — to see what it involves.

  1. Outline drawing of a calendar and booking form beside a dental arch

    Select IPG Scanning and submit the patient and case information.

  2. Outline drawing of a checklist beside an implant and an encoded scan body

    Confirm the implant brand, connection, positions and compatible encoded scan bodies.

  3. Outline drawing of a marker-covered photogrammetry scan body on its implant, with reference points across its face

    The scanner captures the encoded scan bodies from multiple angles to record implant positions and angulations.

  4. Outline drawing of upper and lower arches being scanned

    Capture the soft tissue, dentition, opposing arch, bite and other required anatomy.

  5. Outline drawing of clinical files travelling securely to a screen

    Upload the scan data, photographs and supporting clinical records securely to Apex.

  6. Outline drawing of a design screen showing a full-arch restoration

    Apex reviews the records and continues with the approved digital restorative workflow.

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Applications

Suitable IPG Applications

All-on-X

Full-arch rehabilitation supported by a planned number of implants.

Full-Arch Implant Restoration

Complete-arch restorative cases requiring implant-position data.

Edentulous-Arch Implant Case

Edentulous arches where conventional reference points are limited.

Multiple Implant Bridge

Splinted restorations spanning several implants.

Immediate-Loading Workflow

Workflows where records are captured shortly after placement.

Complex Implant Restoration

Cases with divergent angulation or demanding restorative objectives.

Final case acceptance and verification requirements are subject to clinical and Apex technical review.

End to end

The Apex Full-Arch Restorative Journey

Twelve stages in two halves. The first six are the booking and the service job it creates, and they update on their own in Apex Brain. The rest are laboratory production, shown so you can see the whole road.

Stages 1 – 6

At the clinic, with Apex

  1. 1IPG appointment requested
  2. 2Appointment confirmed
  3. 3IPG scan completed
  4. 4Files under technical review
  5. 5Additional information, if required
  6. 6Case accepted

Tracked in Apex Brain — these update on their own as the work happens.

Stages 7 – 12

In the Apex laboratory

  1. 7Design in progress
  2. 8Dentist approval
  3. 9Manufacturing
  4. 10Quality control
  5. 11Ready for delivery
  6. 12Case completed

Laboratory production. Your coordinator reports on these; the page does not.

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