Dental products manufacturer Dentsply Sirona, Siemens Healthineers, and the University of Minnesota (UMN) School of Dentistry have installed the first dental-dedicated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner in the U.S.
The Magnetom Free.Max Dental Edition MRI system is a joint initiative from Dentsply Sirona and Siemens Healthineers. Image and caption courtesy of Dentsply Sirona.
The collaboration will explore the capabilities of Siemens' Magnetom Free.Max Dental Education scanner in capturing and analyzing images of soft-tissue structures and lesions, empowering clinicians with diagnostic information for a range of oral conditions such as endodontics, temporomandibular disorders, periodontics, and orthodontics.
UMN was selected as the installation site based on its experience with MRI research, according to a press release from Dentsply Sirona.
