DEXIS · Mid-range tier
DEXIS IS 3800W
Several years old and still holding its own. Independent testing found it produced photorealistic colour with adjustable brightness, and it stayed within about 50 microns of the Primescan reference on a crown prep.
Independent review
None published
Nobody has put this scanner through a published clinical review. Weigh the specification below accordingly.
Street price
- United States
- About $19,000
- India
- No price on file
Before tax and before the computer. Dealer discounts are large and seasonal. No price on file means we have no reliable street price there, not necessarily that it is unavailable.
The short answers
- Files
- Open STL
- Subscription
- Optional
- Best at
- Ortho and crown and bridge
What is good
- Still clinically capable despite its age
- Adjustable scan brightness, which few scanners offer
- Wireless and cordless
- Backed by a large manufacturer service network
What is not
- Half the frame rate of the Imprevo that replaces it
- Chunkier body than current-generation scanners
- Only worth buying at a genuine run-out discount
Specification
- Price
- About $19,000
- Connection
- Wireless and cordless
- Colour
- Photorealistic, with adjustable brightness
- Accuracy
- Within about 50 microns of the Primescan reference on a prep
- Status
- Superseded by the Imprevo
What it costs to run
- Software
- DTX Studio ecosystem
- Consumables
- Autoclavable tips
Buy it if
Practices offered a real discount on remaining stock who want DEXIS support.
Look elsewhere if
Anyone paying close to list. The Imprevo is slimmer and twice as fast.
Compare it against something else
This scanner is pinned in the first column. Add up to two more to see where the differences actually are.
| Comparing | ||
|---|---|---|
| Street price | About $19,000 | About $17,995 |
| Independent rating | None published | None published |
| Tier | Mid-range | Premium |
| Files | Open STL | Open STL |
| Subscription | Optional | Optional |
| Invisalign here | No | No |
| Five year cost | $26,000 (best of those compared) | $26,998 |
| Pays for itself in | 7 months (best of those compared) | 8 months |
| Handpiece weight | Not published | Not published |
| Connection | Wireless | Wireless |
| Best at | Crown and bridge | All indications |
Cost and payback assume 40 scans a month. Set your own numbers in the scanner picker. The highlighted value in a row is simply the better one of those compared, not a verdict on the scanner.
Where to buy it
From the manufacturer
The manufacturer's own page is also where you will find real photographs of the handpiece.
None of these are affiliate links and Kythro earns nothing if you buy. Always get at least two dealer quotes: list price is rarely the price anyone pays.
Sources
- Institute of Digital Dentistry: DEXIS IS 3800 Wireless review
- Institute of Digital Dentistry: five scanners compared on one prep
Kythro sells practice management software, not scanners. We have no commercial relationship with any manufacturer listed here.
Other scanners
Also mid-range tier
- DentCare d-fine Scan Pro
- Shining 3D Aoralscan 3
- Medit i700
- Medit i900
- Medit i600
- Shining 3D Aoralscan ELF
- Planmeca Emerald S
- Panda Panda Smart
- Alliedstar Sensa
- Shining 3D Aoralscan Lync
Everything else
- Waldent IntraVue 800
- Eighteeth Helios 500
- Shining 3D Aoralscan Elite
- 3Shape TRIOS 5
- Align Technology iTero Lumina
- 3Shape TRIOS 6
- Dentsply Sirona Primescan 2
- Alliedstar AS 260
- Launca DL-300
- Runyes 3DS V5
- Straumann SIRIOS X3
- DEXIS Imprevo
- Medit i900 Mobility
- Dentsply Sirona Primescan
- Align Technology Element 5D Plus
- Shining 3D Aoralscan 3 Neo
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