“Reduce invisible errors in edentulous arch scans and make your digital workflow more clinically reliable.”
It's not just a scan.
It is a reliable and repeatable scan of the edentulous arches.
Take a look at the clinical caseStabilizes lips, cheeks, and tongue to eliminate soft tissue distortions and obtain more accurate digital data for prosthetics and surgery.
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Soft tissue control during intraoral scanning of edentulous arches.
This is where the reliability of clinical data comes from!
TISSUE STABILITY DURING SCANNING
Scans of edentulous arches may be inadequate because the tongue, lips, and cheeks displace soft tissue near the edentulous ridge.
The Russo Retractors keep soft tissues in constant position during digital acquisition, allowing you to record the real anatomy, obtaining:
👉 Less variability between scans.
👉 A more reliable basis for prosthetics and guided surgery.
ANATOMY NOT ALTERED DURING ACQUISITION
Without tissue control, the scanner records distorted shapes from movements of the tongue, lips, and cheeks.
Our spreader system creates a stable and repeatable space, avoiding distortions of shape and real dimensions; consequently:
👉 The digital file represents the real clinical situation.
👉 Errors that are transferred to prosthetics and surgical guides are reduced.
MORE RELIABLE AND PREDICTABLE DIGITAL DATA
Digital workflow offers advantages only if it is precise. But the workflow is only as precise as the initial scan.
By stabilizing the soft tissues close to the arch, Lo Russo Retractors avoids interference and improves the quality of the starting data, making it possible to achieve:
👉 Better prosthetic fitting.
👉 Greater consistency between scan, design, and clinical outcome.
CLINICAL CONTROL DURING PROCEDURES
The Russo Retractors are not just a scanning tool.
During prosthetic fittings, oral and periodontal surgery, and orthodontic procedures, it maintains a clear field of vision and easily manageable tissues. Therefore, it facilitates:
👉 Improved access to operational field
👉 Greater control of mobile tissues
👉 More predictable, efficient, and comfortable procedures.
The critical point in intraoral scanning of edentulous arches isn't the scanner. It's the soft tissues!
During the scanning process, lips, cheeks, and tongue exert varying pressure or stretching that temporarily alters the morphology of the tissues in or near the edentulous ridge. In this situation, the scanner fails to complete the acquisition process or, even worse, records these alterations as if they were real anatomy.
LO RUSSO RETRACTORS® is a patented system designed to retract and stabilize soft tissue during scanning, maintaining a consistent and repeatable anatomical configuration. This allows you to:
- reduce distortions from tissue displacement -
- improve consistency between scan, digital design and clinical outcome -
- increase predictability in prosthetics and guided surgery -
LO RUSSO RETRACTORS is not an ergonomic accessory: It is a soft tissue control system for digital data precision.
These errors are not evident during scanning, but become apparent in later stages, worsening the fit of the denture, requiring adjustments and clinical adjustments, increasing variability between scans, and causing potential inconsistencies in matching with surgical guides.
👉 The problem is not visible during scanning.
👉 The problem arises when the prosthesis or surgery does not fit perfectly.
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