The CT Byte eliminates the need for radiographic templates in implant planning and removes scatter from CT images. Put adhesive on the top and bottom of the CT Byte's biting surface and inject fast set regular bodied impression material onto the adhesive. (Blu-Mousse contains radiopaque fillers and therefore should not be used) Next, place the CT Byte in the patient's mouth much like a face-bow bite fork. After the impression material sets and before the patient opens, make the CT scan.
Note that the CT Byte has three small radiopaque markers on the 
curved element in front of the face. These must show up in the scan along with the upper and lower jaws. If the patient is going to a medical center or to a place that has never used the device, be 
sure to practice with the patient putting the device in the mouth so that the teeth are in the indentations made in the impression material.
Frequently cone beam CT images have scatter caused by fillings, crowns and root canal material. Use of the CT Byte allows digital scans of the patient's dental models to be joined into the virtual 3D image of the patient. It also makes it possible to locate and measure functional and esthetic landmarks from the CT and dental scans.
*Voxelogix uses the CT-Byte, CBCT scan data, and dental models to create the digital face-bow.
(you and your lab do not need to do any of these steps, they will be done for you.)
The virtual model created by Voxelogix aligns the patients scan data in the virtual world such that the midline, head position, distance to the fossae and any other landmark can be easily measured and analyzed.
The first step in this process is to locate the position of each fossae, anterior nasial spine (ANS) and nasion(N) in the scan data.
Using Voxelogix technology, this information is used to attach the physical upper model to the mounting plate such that the distance to the fossae and the cant of the teeth are the same as in the patient.
Voxelogix uses this information to then mount and position the physical dental models in a digital articulator such that lab technicians and dentists can more easily evaluate the patient. To mount the physical model, it is placed in a device (below) that is programed to attach the model to the mounting plate of the articulator, replacing the traditional face-bow. These steps join the physical and virtual world through the digital articulator.
Send the patient's CT Byte, a CD of the DICOM data, upper and lower impressions (or casts), bite registration, and a photograph (broadsmile) to:
Voxelogix: 7826 Louis Pasteur (Suite 104) San Antonio, TX, 78229
