Carestream Dental.

Carestream Dental's own 2018 anniversary release says the company became a freestanding digital dental business on September 1, 2017, when funds managed by Clayton, Dubilier and Rice and CareCapital Advisors acquired it from Carestream and its parent, Onex. The April 2017 announcement said dental X-ray film and anesthetics were not in the sale and stayed with Carestream. Lisa Ashby, then president, became CEO of the independent company. The 2018 release places the company in Atlanta and traces the digital business to Eastman Kodak, Trophy Radiology, and PracticeWorks.

The sensor story starts earlier than the company name. Carestream's RVG anniversary page says a French dentist patented radiovisiography in 1982 and partnered with Trophy Radiology, now part of Carestream Dental, and that the first RVG sensor followed in 1986. The current sensor page lists RVG 6200, RVG 5200, and a size 0 CS 6200. Active areas are published: size 1 at 22.2 by 29.6 millimeters and size 2 at 26.6 by 35.5 millimeters for the RVG 6200 and 5200, and 18 by 24 millimeters for the CS 6200.

Extraoral imaging is a different capital purchase. The CS 9600 page calls that unit a multifunctional system for 2D and 3D exams, with a 75 micron minimum voxel, CMOS technology, and as many as 14 fields of view. Carestream names implant, endodontic, oral-surgery, and orthodontic use on that page. A panoramic-only office does not need every field of view. Read the field-of-view list against the studies you actually order.

Software is the third piece. Sensors are described as TWAIN compatible so they are not locked to one imaging program, and Carestream also sells its own software. The 2018 release mentioned a cloud practice-management suite, CS OrthoTrac, and CS Model+. Those names show the range the company was selling as it became independent. The current order form is what tells you which package a dealer can still install.

Carestream suits a general practice replacing film or an older sensor, and a specialty office that wants cone-beam and panoramic in one machine. Size 0 is the pediatric sensor on the comparison chart. Sizes 1 and 2 are the RVG 5200 and 6200. The intraoral sensor guide is the 2D decision. The CBCT guide is the 3D decision. They are not the same quote.

Orthodontic and oral-surgery practices are named on the CS 9600 page because field of view and resolution change with the exam. An endodontic office that wants a small high-resolution volume should ask which CS 9600 fields match that study, not assume the largest volume is the right one.

Offices that still buy dental film are not buying it from this company. The 2017 sale excluded film and anesthetics. Those products stayed with the former parent.

Put the RVG sensors next to other USB sensors in the sensor guide, and the CS 9600 next to other cone-beam units in the CBCT guide. Dexis, Vatech, and Planmeca are other imaging names in the equipment directory. A sensor does not bolt into another company's extraoral machine.

Panoramic exams have their own guide. If you only need a panorama, do not buy a 5-in-1 because the brochure leads with cone beam. The panoramic guide separates that choice. Intraoral cameras are a third device. The camera guide is not a sensor page.

Carestream's 2017 independence matters when you call for service. The legal entity changed on September 1, 2017. Film customers of the old Carestream business were explicitly left behind. Confirm the service contract names Carestream Dental, not the medical imaging company.

Match sensor size to the mouths you treat before you match brand. The published active areas are the comparison, not a slogan about image quality. Ask whether the RVG 6200 and 5200 use the same holders and the same software license. TWAIN compatibility is Carestream's statement that the sensor can feed other programs. Test that with your practice-management system, not with a demo laptop.

For the CS 9600, ask which fields of view are in the configuration you are quoted, what the 75 micron voxel applies to, and who installs and calibrates the unit. Exposure times on the page run from 5.5 to 40 seconds. That is a range, not a setting you copy onto every patient. Training is the installer's job plus whatever course the quote includes. The pages reviewed do not promise a free multi-day course.

The 2018 release listed 800-944-6365 as the representative line at that time. Use the number on the current site when you call. Warranty length was not in the pages used here. Get it on the quote for the sensor cable and for the extraoral tube head separately.