User guide

1. Create an account at Sign Up with your work e-mail.
2. Set up your professional profile: profession (dentist / dental technician), name, country, workplace, and 1–8 specialties with one marked as primary — your feed and notifications are built from these.
3. Submit verification: your license or registry number. Our team reviews every request manually, typically within 1–2 business days. Until you are verified you can browse the product pages but not clinical cases — that protects everyone's patients and expertise.

1. Click Post a Case. Give it a descriptive title, a short anonymised summary (this appears on the feed card), a detailed description and — most importantly — a precise clinical question: what exactly do you want input on?
2. Pick the specialties that should see the case and the visibility: matching specialists (default), all verified professionals, or invite-only for sensitive consultations.
3. Upload files by drag & drop: photos (JPEG/PNG/WebP, ≤25 MB), 3D scans (STL/PLY/OBJ, ≤200 MB) and PDFs (≤50 MB). Every file is validated server-side; assign roles (upper scan, lower scan, design…) so the 3D workspace labels layers correctly. Remove all patient identifiers before uploading — DICOM/CBCT support is on the roadmap.
4. Confirm the de-identification / legal-basis attestation and publish. Verified specialists in the selected fields get notified.

• Discussion is for quick, chronological clarifications ("what is the restorative space?").
• Expert opinions are structured, standalone contributions: they have a title, can be drafted before publishing, and are the unit colleagues vote on. Keep the two separate — that is what makes cases readable months later.
• Mark opinions that helped with 👍 Helpful. As the case owner, mark the single opinion that solved your case as most helpful — the author gets the credit on their profile. This label never claims clinical correctness; it records what the owner found most useful.
• Close the loop: Mark as solved with a short summary of what you chose, or reopen later if the situation changes.

• Layers: toggle visibility, adjust opacity and color per scan. The case owner (and participants with the editor role) can save these as the case default.
• Navigate: drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, right-drag to pan. Standard views (F/B/L/R/T/Bo) and fit-to-view live on the right edge.
• 📍 Point: click a model to drop a labelled marker. 📏 Measure: click two points to get a distance in model units (mm for intraoral scans). Annotations are saved with the case and visible to every participant.
• ✥ Align (owner/editor): select a layer, then move/rotate it with the gizmo and Save alignment to publish the corrected position for everyone. Automatic alignment is a technical aid on the roadmap — always verify positioning yourself.
• The Photos and Docs tabs hold clinical photos (with lightbox) and PDFs, all delivered through access-controlled links only.

• The bell shows in-app notifications: new relevant cases, opinions and votes on your work, verification updates, invitations.
• Settings → Profile — update your details and specialties any time.
• Settings → Privacy & data — export everything you contributed as JSON, or delete your account.
• Settings → API access — personal access tokens for integrations (see the API reference).

Keyboard-free tip: every viewer tool also works with plain clicks —
no shortcuts are required for any core action.