MidMark True Definition instructions
Great Lakes can accept scans directly from MidMark True Definition scanners. Please follow the instructions below to get started. If you have any questions, please contact:
Laboratory Customer Service
Phone: 800.828.7626 x 132
Email: [email protected]
MidMark (3M) True Definition Process for Doctors
Connecting with Great Lakes Dental Tehnologies:
- Call 3M customer service
- Give them our connection email [email protected]
- 3M will make that connection and you will be able to send scans immediately
Sending Cases:
- Select “Patients”
- Type in the patient name and click “Add New”
- Fill in patient information
- “Scan Now”
- On your left, select the arch you are about to scan
- When scan is complete, select the check mark
- Select your next arch and follow the same steps
- When you’ve finished scanning, you are ready to send your case to Great Lakes Dental Technologies
- On the left of the screen, select “Date Request”
- “OK”
- Select “Great Lakes Orthodontics”
- Thoroughly fill out the “Notes” section with your case instructions as you would fill out a prescription.
- Digital Bite:
- Scan the patient’s upper and lower arch, we will only print what we need for fabrication but use the occlusion in many cases to evaluate the appliance design. For the bite, scan this in the ‘fabrication position’ which should be set up prior to scanning as you would have when taking a wax bite to send to us with casts. Please be sure to remove any wax or bite material from the buccal surface of the teeth to be scanned so the surface of the teeth can be read by the scanner and orient the upper and lower arches correctly. Follow the appropriate position recommendations required for the appliance you are requesting. We will print that bite position and use this to mount the printed models.
- Examples:
- For a Splint:
- VDO minimum set at 1.5 mm from highest point of contact
- For a Sleep appliance:
- VDO open and advanced for the appliance you are ordering
- For a Splint:
- Examples:
- Scan the patient’s upper and lower arch, we will only print what we need for fabrication but use the occlusion in many cases to evaluate the appliance design. For the bite, scan this in the ‘fabrication position’ which should be set up prior to scanning as you would have when taking a wax bite to send to us with casts. Please be sure to remove any wax or bite material from the buccal surface of the teeth to be scanned so the surface of the teeth can be read by the scanner and orient the upper and lower arches correctly. Follow the appropriate position recommendations required for the appliance you are requesting. We will print that bite position and use this to mount the printed models.