Intra-oral scanning has taken the dental industry by storm. Over the past decade, we have watched traditional impression taking become completely disrupted by technology. It is well established both in the literature and by countless anecdotes by dentists worldwide that intra-oral scanning provides many benefits compared with taking a physical impression.1,2 This includes offering better efficiency and comfort for the patient, being faster to carry out than traditional methods and being as accurate if not more accurate than physical impressions.3–5