Ryan Hamm

Straumann has long been an industry leader in innovation when it comes to their CARES® system. This system presents a variety of solutions that allow dental laboratories to scan and design in the lab and then send a file to Straumann for milling.

As more dental professionals adopt digital scanning, user experience is more important than ever. With that in mind, 3M Digital Oral Care has announced technological transformations to the 3M True Definition Scanner.

Consider these tips for making sure you don't spread let infection spread around your team or, most importantly, to the restorations you're producing for clients and patients.

Roy Dental Lab is a full service lab located in New Albany, Ind., just across the river from Louisville, Ky. The lab is family owned, and was started in 1972. The lab has 11 full-time dental technicians, and 13 total full-time employees.

A team of researchers at Harvard has discovered that it may be possible to regrow dentin in teeth-through the power of lasers.

The Lab: Sikes Dental Studios is a full-service lab in Charlotte, N.C., specializing in highly esthetic results for a variety of clients who request a variety of solutions. The lab is small with seven full-time technicians, an office manager and a delivery person on staff.

Though the last few years have seen a significant rise in monolithic restorations made out of materials like zirconia and lithium disilicate, there are plenty of labs that still specialize in PFM restorations-and have the esthetic results to make that choice a viable one.

The Programat® EP 5010 is designed to set a new benchmark in pressing technology.

The Lab J&B Dental Studios is a dental lab in the Madison, Wisc., area that’s been operating since 1995. Initially a two-man lab, J&B now has four people on staff. The lab began as a traditional PFM, crown-and-bridge operation, but has since expanded to zirconia solutions in addition to traditional restorations, along with some implant work. The lab is owned by Jeff Bald, and his son Aaron is the lead CAD/CAM technician who has helped oversee the lab’s transition to a digital workflow.

The Zenotec select mill is an extensive CAD/CAM system that is comprised of products and services for the entire digital processing chain. 

With the recent announcement that Straumann had teamed up with 3Shape and 3M ESPE to offer their CARES system to a wider user set, a system that had previously been fairly closed is now available to a larger user base than ever.  

Perhaps no topic continues to occupy the dental lab world more than trying to successfully navigate the digital revolution. Core3dcentres is a company trying to help labs make that transition smoothly and well. We spoke with Mark Ferguson, the Dental Solutions Integrator at Core3d, about how outsourcing can help labs of all sizes, how labs can go digital even if they don’t have the finances or human power, and how Core3d can help lab techs make the digital leap.  

The new Silent TS2 is designed to improve the efficiency of your lab. Save space and investment costs and at the same time utilize the advantages of the Silent TS and the intelligent control of the two workstation extraction.   

Want your lab to move forward and reach new heights of success? ETI Digital Technology wants to help.

PREMIOtemp is a new, multi-shaded PMMA material that is formulated to be ideal for a variety of uses.

When you put a disk (or a puck) into a milling machine, what does that piece of material represent? Do you see the raw material, ready to be turned into something amazing? Do you see a lump of porcelain? Do you see the finished product, waiting for you after the milling cycle?

Chuck Tagliarino, CDT, is the Technical Vice President of Operations at Sun Dental Labs, located in Clearwater, Fla. He oversees the technical information, equipment design and materials for Sun Dental Labs.

BIOMET 3i's Lab Designed Encode is a new workflow for the Encode Impression System, that enables a new level of control in abutment work - and it's saving time and money  for Artifex Dental Laboratories in Virginia. Here's what  Artifex owner and CDT Tony Prestipino had to say about the system.

The Lab Precision Dental Arts is a dental laboratory located just outside of Cleveland, Ohio. Specializing in fixed prosthetics, the two-man lab has been in operation since 1997 and mostly works with all-ceramics and implants.

In 2012, DENTSPLY Implants unveiled the ATLANTIS™ Abutment Core File solution, which provided a perfect digital edition of an ATLANTIS patient-specific Abutment to the lab designing the full case. ATLANTIS Abutment Core File solution to an even wider group of scanner users, as the system now works with 3Shape scanners and has undergone updates to fit comfortably in a fully digitized workflow.

Today’s implant prosthetics call for high performance materials. Diamond D® is an excellent, high impact acrylic.

Next week, the dental industry will gather in Chicago. With four huge events taking place over the span of just a few days, attendees at the Chicago Mindwinter Meeting, LMT Lab Day, the Cal-Lab meeting and the Spectrum Dialogue Techno-Clinical Day will have plenty to do and see.

The Straumann® CARES® Variobase™ Abutment is a hybrid abutment with a titanium-alloy bonding base and customized zirconium dioxide coping, delivering the reliability of a titanium connection with the pleasing esthetics of a ceramic coping.

01. Give us a brief overview of Valplast. Valplast brand flexible partials and flexible denture base resin is the world’s first flexible partial denture solution. The product was introduced in 1953 to provide an affordable and durable esthetic removable denture. 02. What do you see as Valplast’s greatest strength?

01. What was it you were hearing from the lab industry that led to the development of Evident software?

1. You were one of the people who helped Shofu with their decision to bring Veracia denture material and OneShot Uni-layer porcelain to the U.S. What was it about Veracia SA that made you say “yes, this is great for the U.S. lab market”?

Anybody who’s ever researched investing in a digital workflow solution for their dental lab knows all of the different terms. They also know how confusing these terms can be-how does one even begin to navigate the myriad of options on the market for scanners, mills, software and everything in between? What if you get something that doesn’t play nicely with tools you already own?  Is there a way to make sense of all the different features and system differences?

On October 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy roared ashore along the New Jersey and New York coasts.

The versatile PaX i3D Green CBCT system is eco-friendly and safe for children.

As dental labs of all sizes are beginning to invest in their own mills-and the CAM software that goes with it-it’s become a crowded field of often confusing and compelling offerings.