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What’s new with Spark?

Explore new releases for improving your workflow and enhancing your patients’ experience

Introducing Spark R15.1

This new Spark software update continues to bring more fluidity and flexibility in your practice. Explore the new features:

Spark Approver Desktop

Case Rating – Introducing a new design of case rating with preset reasons, for an enhanced communication with our design team.
Recalculate Tool – Enjoy increased functionality, allowing more case types.
CBCT – Automatic downloads and uploads of DICOM into Approver, allowing you to continue to perform regular actions while downloading.

Spark Approver Web

Tooth Movement Table – Expanded functionalities and ease-of-use.
Unsupported browser – Alerts if incompatible.

Spark DTX Web Portal

Spark On-Demand – You can now start a new SOD case for an existing Spark patient.

R15.1 Software updates

Spark Approver Desktop

Spark Approver Desktop

New design of case rating dialog

Every action (Approve or Submit) on Approver presents you a case design rating dialog.
The new dialog design aims to make it easier for you to provide your feedback to our designers.
You can now select at least one reason for a given case rating from the list of pre-defined reasons, which includes a free-form “Other” field with a text input option.
The case rating dialogue consists of questions and reasons. The options presented depend on:
- Rating
- The number of CRs sent within primary treatment plan or refinement plan
If you are submitting a CR because you have new instructions for the treatment objectives, it is recommended that you select the “I have new instructions” option to better inform the Design Technician.

Spark Approver Desktop

RTA recalculate

Allows you to use Recalculate and change T2 setup multiple times.
Recalculate now includes cases with:
- Overcorrection stages
- More complex T2 movements
- Expanded applicable case types

Spark Approver Desktop

CBCT: Auto download and upload of DICOM

DICOM downloading function processes in the background, followed by automatic importing.
When selecting Download DICOM:
- The download will be executed in the app in the background, allowing you to perform regular actions with the case (review, edit T2 and staging, etc.) and indicating downloading progress with special spinner indicator.
- Once downloading completes, the importing process starts automatically in the background.

Spark Approver Desktop

Language support: Brazilian Portuguese

Spark Approver Desktop installer and application are now translated to Brazilian Portuguese, which can be selected from the list of available languages.

15.1-5 Passive Aligners stage now limited to 6-1-1

Spark Approver Desktop

Passive aligners stage now limited to six

The maximum number of passive aligners you can put in the treatment plan of any product type is changed from 10 to 6.
Should you need more than 6 passive aligners, you will be required to use Spark On-Demand (SOD) for the additional passive aligners.

Spark Approver Desktop

Opposite arch collision warning

Collisions with objects on the opposite arch, which do not require adjustment or redesign, are now split into a special collisions warning table in the Properties panel.

Page numbering of PDF report

Page numbers (ex. Page 2 of 3) were added to PDF report to provide better clarity.

R15.1 Software updates

Spark Approver Web

Spark Approver Web

Tooth movement table

TMT now updates the tooth movements values for previous revisions.
When you change a revision to a historical one, the alert for threshold is updated accordingly.
When you change a case within MTP, the alert for threshold is updated accordingly.
Unlock and lock teeth on the TMT panel on T2 by clicking on the lock icon (under tooth numbers).

Spark Approver Web

Error message for unsupported web browsers

Supported browsers for Spark Approver Web are Edge v.95+, Chrome v.95+, Firefox v.100+, Safari v.16.4+ with hardware acceleration enabled.

15.1-11 Error message for unsupported browser 1

R15.1 Software updates

Spark DTX

15.1-12 Spark On-Demand - Start new SOD case

Spark DTX

Spark On-Demand: Start a new SOD case from existing Spark patient

From any shipped order, click Spark On-Demand to select the desired SOD option.
Patient information will be pre-filled.
A new case ID will be generated (patients will appear twice, once for original order and once for SOD order).

Spark Approver DTX

Spark On-Demand: Reorder/ refinement option

SOD Aligner Refinements – You can order additional aligners for patients who need a refinement, and they will simply be billed per tray, similarly to the primary order.
SOD Reorders – In case of warranty issues, you can reorder aligners to be remade from the original order at no charge.

Spark DTX

Spark On-Demand: Create a new order for existing SOD order type

You can select “New Order” on existing Spark On-Demand cases and generate a new order for an existing SOD order type.
New orders will be charged similarly to original aligner order.

Spark Release 15.0

Spark On-Demand
Spark On-Demand offers you a flexible and cost-efficient service for minor treatments requiring fewer aligners.

Ormco Combo Treatment
You can now switch patients from aligners to braces, before refinements, at no extra charge*.

Software updates

Spark Approver Desktop
A fresh update improves your movie export and real-time approval capabilities.

Spark Approver Web
A whole new and improved Tooth Movement Table and better auxiliary placement editing.

Spark DTX Web Portal
Make refinement scans a thing of the past!

New

Spark On-Demand

Spark On-Demand offers you a flexible and cost-efficient service for minor treatments requiring fewer aligners.

When you don’t require as many aligners as provided in Spark’s configurations (Spark 10, 20, Advanced), you can simply order On-Demand and be invoiced per tray.

This will bring more flexibility to your treatment options and planning, allowing you to order any number of Spark Aligners without the need to subscribe to a plan.

Flexible: Choose between Spark Aligners and Spark Passive Aligners, select the exact number of aligners needed, and pay per tray.
Cost-efficient: Only pay for what you need, based on your loyalty tier, with no extra commitment necessary.
Convenient: Follow the Spark Aligner workflow to order through our DTX Web Portal instead of manufacturing in office.
No change to submission process: Select Spark on Demand, then Spark Aligners, and continue with prescription form and approval as usual.

New

Ormco Combo Treatment – Switch to Brackets

You can now switch patients from aligners to braces for refinements at no extra charge*. Bring more flexibility to your patients’ treatment plans with aligners and braces.
Order an Ormco Single Patient Kit of your choice, instead of a refinement, from within the Spark website.
If you wish to transition from Spark Advanced to Single Patient Kit of Ormco brackets before any refinements have been submitted, simply use the “Combo Order” button on the DTX Web Portal. Please note, if a patient has already transitioned to a Single Patient Kit of Ormco brackets through our website, no additional refinements are possible.

*Shipping charges may still apply. Applicable to Spark Advance cases only. No additional refinements allowed.

How to transition a patient to brackets

Step 1

Select “Switch to Brackets” by clicking a patient in the “Shipped” tab after a Spark Primary order but before submitting refinements.

Step 2

Select the type of bracket to transition patients.

Step 3

Select a specific Single Patient Kit for your patient but acknowledge that no future refinements will be permitted before ordering. Upon submission, the Ormco Customer Care Team processes the order free of charge, except for potential shipping fees. The option to refine or reorder will be disabled for this case.

R15.0 Software updates

Spark Approver Desktop

Multi-view movie export

You can now export a composite multi-view treatment simulation movie along with the previously available Single-view movie option.
In multi-view mode, 5 pre-defined model views are combined into a single movie frame for each stage.
The multi-view mode is now the default mode, and your last choice will be remembered when accessing the movie export feature in the future.

Spark Approver Desktop

Real Time Approval: Tool expansion for single jaw cases

Approver Software’s Real Time Approval now supports the staging recalculation and approval of single jaw cases. Disclaimers will be displayed for cases that are not supported for staging recalculation.
You can now update the final tooth position (T2)* and recalculate the current staging while instantly approving changes.
The Stage Editor feature allows you to increase the number of active or passive aligners while instantly approving any changes made.

*In class I cases with spacing or minor crowding, no C-chain, no Eruption guides and no IPR. The Recalculate tool should be used once all the modifications to the final tooth position and increasing the number of aligners are done

R15.0 Software updates

Spark Approver Web

Tooth Movement Table

The new horizontal layout allows you to view and follow the teeth and their movements in the same view following the teeth sequence.
This tool enables you to edit and view the values of tooth movements in a single table. A red dot indicates intermediate or challenging movements.
Each column represents a tooth number, and each row represents a movement or rotation of a crown or root. The Tooth Movement Table (TMT) is available in a read-only format. You can find the TMT icon on the right-side panel. If there isn’t enough space on the browser display, the icon will be shifted to the left panel.
The TMT icon displays alerts for teeth that have either intermediate or challenging values. If there are teeth with intermediate values only, a yellow alert will be displayed with the number of such teeth. However, if at least one tooth has a challenging value, a red alert will be displayed for the number of teeth with challenging values. In other words, the red alert has priority over the yellow alert.

Spark Approver Web

Match Auxiliaries Stages

This feature enables you to edit the start and end stages of auxiliary placement.
When using Spark Approver Web, the placement of auxiliaries such as Attachments, Elastics, Bite Ramps and Bite Turbos will be determined based on clinical preferences and the start and end stages of the auxiliaries on the target arch or opposite arch (when there are no auxiliaries present on the target arch).
If you add auxiliaries with different stages to teeth on different mandibles, two rows of stages will be displayed.

R15.0 Software updates

Spark DTX Web Portal

Spark DTX Web Portal

Smart STL integration for DentalMonitoring

With the DentalMonitoring Smart STL integration on the Spark DTX Web Portal, you can take refinements using DentalMonitoring Smart STLs*, thus making refinement scans for Spark a thing of the past!
This means more convenience for patients who no longer need to visit the office for a new intraoral scan for refinement aligners. You can select Smart STL as the refinement scan type during the refinement submission process.

*Spark doctors with an active DentalMonitoring subscription can only access this feature for refinement cases. Smart STL may not be regulatory cleared in your market. Please check with your local sales representative for regulatory clearance status.”

Spark is an advanced clear aligner system designed for more predictable & efficient treatment planning from start-to-finish.

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