Dr. William L. Ingram, D.M.D.
2227 Drake Ave. SW
Suite 10-B
Huntsville, AL 35805
256.883.7832


Are you ready for a more comfortable visit to your dentist? Introducing the LavaTM Chairside Oral Scanner C.O.S. from 3M ESPE. It's the beginning of a new, more comfortable and interactive process for restoring your smile.


The first step in creating a new crown or bridge restoration is making a dental impression. In the past, that meant having to bite into a tray filled with putty-like impression material. The LavaTMC.O.S. helps replace that unpleasant procedure. It allows your dentist to take extremely accurate digital impressions of your teeth. In fact, studies have shown that people prefer the comfort of digital impressions to traditional techniques.


With the Lava C.O.S., your dentist scans your teeth with a sophisticated optical wand that contains tiny camera lenses. These lenses capture detailed video images, ensuring extraordinarily accurate impressions. The result is a precise-fitting restoration.


A breakthrough in imaging technology, the Lava C.O.S. is one of the most sophisticated optical systems in dentistry. It's the inspired and award-winning combination of advanced hardware design, high-speed image processing and complex modeling software. Designed to encourage new levels of interactivity between you and your dentist, the system displays your digital impression in real-time on a touch screen monitor. Your doctor can even rotate and enlarge the 3D images on the monitor to show you all sides of your impression.


How Lava C.O.S. makes dentistry more comfortable

1. Prep and Dust - Dr. Ingram will prep your teeth and apply a light dusting of a tasteless powder.

2. Scan and Review - Dr. Ingram then passes the wand over your teeth. Sophisticated optics gather precise digital images and a 3D impression appears immediately on the touch screen monitor.

3. Send - Your digital impression and a lab prescription are sent electronically to our dental lab, which creates a highly accurate, precise-fitting restoration.

4. Final Appointment - Your smile is complete with the seating of the finished restoration.