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Align Technology iTero Lumina
The nicest-looking scans on the market, and the only modern scanner that submits Invisalign cases natively. It is also the most expensive thing here by a wide margin once the compulsory subscription and the single-use sleeves are counted.
Independent review
89 / 100
Institute of Digital Dentistry
Street price
- United States
- $37,000 to $45,000
- India
- 14 to 18 lakh and up
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
- Vendor portal
- Subscription
- Mandatory
- Best at
- Ortho and crown and bridge
What is good
- Unmatched scan quality, the most photorealistic output available
- Very large capture window, which reduces stitching errors
- Excellent AI handling of soft tissue
- Cloud iTero Design Suite with exocad built in for in-house work
- The only modern scanner compatible with Invisalign
What is not
- The most expensive scanner on this list
- The larger head makes distal access harder than slimmer rivals
- Single-use sleeves add roughly $3 to $4 per patient
- The subscription is effectively mandatory, and without it per-export fees apply
- Software is inflexible on complex cases such as dentures
Specification
- Field of view
- 34 x 27 mm, the largest here
- Full arch scan
- About 30 seconds
- Technology
- Multi-Direct Capture, sensors at the tip rather than mirrors
- Sleeves
- Single use, one per patient
- Files
- STL and PLY, via the MyiTero platform or a lab portal
- Subscription
- Comprehensive Service Plan, about $380 a month
What it costs to run
- Subscription
- About $380 a month, roughly $4,560 a year
- Consumables
- About $3 to $4 per patient in sleeves
- Without a plan
- Per-export fees apply
Buy it if
Practices where Invisalign is the business model, and anyone who wants the best possible scan quality and cloud design workflow.
Look elsewhere if
Budget-conscious practices, and anyone who wants their files to leave the wand without passing through a portal.
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 | $37,000 to $45,000 | About $35,000 |
| Independent rating | 89 / 100 | None published |
| Tier | Premium | Premium |
| Files | Vendor portal | Vendor portal |
| Subscription | Mandatory | Optional |
| Invisalign here | Native | No |
| Five year cost | $74,200 | $40,500 (best of those compared) |
| Pays for itself in | 19 months | 13 months (best of those compared) |
| Handpiece weight | Not published | Not published |
| Connection | Wired | Wired |
| 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.
Dealers and listings
- iTero Asia PacificIndia
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
Kythro sells practice management software, not scanners. We have no commercial relationship with any manufacturer listed here.
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