There are many X-rays stored in the software. The entire staff is already trained on the software. The most obvious decision would be to purchase a new Gendex GX700 sensor, at whatever price they want you to pay, because the doctor is stuck with VixWin. That it is too disruptive for the practice’s staff. There are so many extra and unnecessary clicks in that kind of scenario.

For an FMX 18, that means there would be 18 additional clicks in order to take a full mouth series on just one patient! The Gendex/ VixWin Predicament for Dental Offices The staff would have to click “acquire/scanner button' for every single image in the series. In order to capture a second image, and for every image after, for as many tiles there are in the specific series of X-rays being taken: The sensor processes and returns the image into the selected tile. This launches the TWAIN and gets the sensor ready.

The staff clicks the “scanner button' to start the series.

If someone tried to acquire a series in VixWin with a “standard' TWAIN, the process would be something like this: Even if that’s from a sensor or any other TWAIN device into a series that’s set up for intra-oral X-ray images.

So no one can acquire X-rays from a TWAIN source this way. VixWin is the only application that doesn’t have an auto advance feature. Then the dental office is able to continue capturing X-rays until there are no tiles left in the series. The sensor goes to “Ready for Exposure' mode again.

If there is another tile in the series, the calling application automatically calls the TWAIN interface. They capture one X-ray and upload it to the cloud server. This is how many of the cloud-based imaging applications are able to function with a TWAIN source. Then it automatically call the TWAIN for the next tile in any series. With an auto advance feature, the calling application -VixWin in this case- returns an image from the TWAIN interface. In this example, just like the Gendex sensor would capture the images in the VixWin software). (“Native' means that the TWAIN sensor acts exactly like the sensor which the software was built for. A certain type of TWAIN functionality called “auto advance' allows a sensor to act natively in the calling application. TWAIN drivers allow imaging devices to “communicate' with image applications. (That includes everything that runs with their “all-in-one' driver, GXPicture).īut don’t worry! We can integrate into the VixWin software with our TWAIN driver. While VixWin is a good dental image management application, the only direct digital sensor integration it supports is Gendex devices. If you have the Gendex ® sensor -GX700 or earlier versions-you will most likely have VixWin® as your imaging software application.

Gendex sensor drivers