Dental Lab Products-2010-10-01

The use of prefabricated implant abutments offers dental laboratories, their dentists and their patients many benefits. These include the availability of a variety of prefabricated abutment sizes and angulations, as well as the convenience of prepackaged impression analogs and copings.

Flexibility and efficiency are necessary qualities in products for the dental laboratory, and a recent upgrade to the 3M™ ESPE™ Lava™ Design Software used with the Lava™ Scan ST Design System offers both. Now, Lava CAD operators can scan abutment links without the need for a scan locator. This added flexibility and compatibility make the process of creating custom Lava abutments much simpler.

The updated Lava™ Design Software 5.0 from 3M ESPE (3mespe.com/lava) offers great flexibility for designing and fabricating custom zirconia abutments and copings.

The global dental implant market is currently worth $3.2 billion and expected to be worth an additional billion dollars in the next 5 years, with 31 percent of the revenue in North America, according to a report¹ recently released by market research firm Markets and Markets (marketsandmarkets.com).

Shofu Vintage® MP can easily and safely be applied to all PFM alloys within a CTE range of 13.6 to 15.2 x 10-6K-1 and can be effectively used in a simple two-layer dentin-enamel technique (Fig. A illustrates its use on palladium alloy, while Fig.

The likelihood of large companies and organizations not having an annual budget and business plan is fairly remote. To succeed, they need to plan on a formal basis what the expectations of future periods will be, and how they will react to changes. Additionally, during the period they will track their performance against this budget and analyze changes that occur. On the other hand, many owners of dental laboratory businesses do not routinely create a budget, let alone a business plan. There are reasons large organizations use these tools and they can help you, too.

The Ultra-Waxer 2 line of electronic waxing devices offers a systematic approach to dental prosthetic waxing and includes the Ultra-Waxer 2, the Wet-Waxer 2 and the Micro-Dip 2. The devices are designed to provide precise temperature control to deliver high-quality castings.

Starting with either a digital intraoral scan or a benchtop scan in the lab, the new Straumann® CARES® Digital Solutions (straumann-cares-digital-solutions.com) offerings create a digital pathway for cases to follow from start to finish.