Objective: To determine participants’ opinions on the use of conventional and digital impression techniques and to determine which impression technique requires less time. Materials and methods: The study was conducted on 34 students in 4th-, 5th- and 6th-year of study of Dental medicine at the University of Split. We used two questionnaires - one was from the patient's perspective, while the other one was from the practitioner's perspective. Both questionnaires consisted of two parts - before and after impression-taking. The aim of questionnaires was to determine students' opinions on impression. Intraoral scanner Sirona Primescan (Dentsply Sirona, Sirona Dental Systems Bensheim, Germany) was used for digital impression and metal stock trays and Orthotrace alginat were used for conventional impression (Zhermack SpA, Badia Polesine, Italy). The digital impression was timed twice, and conventional once. Results: 62% of participants were completely familiar with conventional technique while only 12% of participants were completely familiar with digital impression technique. Before impression taking, 70,6% of students expected digital technique to be easier to perform, but afterwards opinions significantly changed (41,2%) (s, p =0.0145, χ2-test). The participants, both before and after the impression taking, considered that digital technique causes neither the gag reflex nor breathing difficulties. Before impression taking, majority of participants (79%) believe digital technique to be completely or partially pleasing, but after impression taking opinions worsened significantly (s, p=0.0034). Before impression taking, the participants considered that conventional impression causes the gag reflex, but afterwards opinions change significantly (s, p=0.0329, Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test). They thought, both before and after the impression taking, that conventional technique causes breathing difficulties. Digital impression technique requires less time compared to the conventional impression technique when performed by lower- year students (s, 4th year pscan1vsclass=0.0031, pscan2vsclass<0.0001, uncorrected Fisher’s LSD test). The time required for the conventional impression decreases linearly with the higher year of study (p=0.0109). Conclusions: Both conventional and digital impression techniques are simple to perform, but conventional impression technique is easier compared to the digital technique. Conventional technique causes breathing difficulties, but it is more pleasant than the participants assumed before the impression taking. Digital technique causes neither the gag reflex nor breathing difficulties, but it is not as pleasant as considered before the impression- taking. Lower- year students require less time for the digital impression technique, and upper- year students require less time for the conventional technique. Conventional impression time decreases significantly with upper-year students. New digital techniques should be included in the dental schools’ curricula.