CAD/CAM

Whip Mix has a new addition to their digital solutions, the ProJet 1200 printer from 3D Systems.

Dentrex Digital, a new division of Vision USA, now offers a full range of CAD/CAM materials for digital dental milling centers.

In this installment of “I Use That,” we asked Dr. Eric Hurtte and his lead dental assistant, Tija Hunter, CDA, EFDA, FADAA, about their use of CEREC from Sirona and IPS e.max from Ivoclar Vivadent.

Core3dcentres has announced that their fully contoured and colored Core Custom Implant Abutments (screw or cement-retained) are available based upon scans from Align Technology’s iTero® intraoral scanner.

Planmeca PlanScan, driven by E4D Technologies, is an innovative, technologically advanced, ultra-fast intraoral CAD/CAM system for restorative dentistry.

DATRON Dynamics, representative of DATRON AG in Germany, has introduced two new products in the same family as their D5 Dental Mill.

"This is the best intraoral scanning capture technology coming together with the best imaging."

Carestream Dental has partnered with MicroDental Laboratories to offer practices using CS 3500 intraoral scanners the ability to fabricate a range of dental restorations at any of their in-network labs.

Roland DGA Corp., a provider of dental CAD/CAM technologies, has introduced a new online ROI calculator for the DWX-4 compact dental mill.

Kicking off the first day of the 2014 Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting, Carrie Nelson, director of marketing for E4D Technologies, met with the DPR team to discuss some of the latest news surrounding the company’s comprehensive digital dentistry offerings.

Carestream Dental is hosting two workshops at the 2014 Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting to teach attendees about the latest innovations in imaging and practice management software.

CAD/CAM Wax discs (Pack of 3) are specially formulated in-house by experienced technicians at Talladium.

Sun Dental Labs has announced it now offers 3-D model scanners to labs and doctors interested in entering the digital age of dental technology.

Frontier Dental Laboratories has created Brilliance Z, a monolithic full-contour zirconia structure. Brilliance Z is made of pre-sintered yttria stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystalline ceramics (YTZP) for use as CAD/CAM milling blanks. It has a flexural strength of Mpa 1000 +/- 1-Mpa.

Roland DGA Corp.’s new DWX-4 compact dental mill has been qualified by 3M ESPE for use with the company's Lava Ultimate Restorative resin nano ceramic material. 

3Shape recently released its next generation Dental System™ 2014 to the market, which boasts new dental indications, a new user interface and optimized workflows for TRIOS® digital impressions.

3Shape, manufacturer of 3D scanners and CAD/CAM software solutions, has released a CAD software tool to the dental market that enables labs to provide common dental appliances as a new service.

Shareholders in Delcam, one of the world’s leading suppliers of advanced software for manufacturing industry, recently announced that they have voted to accept the offer made by Autodesk to acquire the company.

Q&A with Chad Naughton, U.S. Chairside Marketer for 3M ESPE

It’s truly becoming a digital world, known all too well to the dental lab industry.

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.

Roland DGA Corp.’s DWX-4 compact dental mill has now been qualified by 3M ESPE for use with Lava Ultimate Restorative resin nano ceramic material. 

The initial research for Vident’s VITA Enamic began years ago at Boston University, and Dr. Russell Giordano was there from the beginning.

Panthera Dental has contracted Jerry Vogel as Executive Vice President, U.S.

Non-optimally positioned implants can significantly impede the ability of restorative dentists and their laboratory partners to deliver functional and esthetic restorations.

DiamoDent offers engaging and non-engaging gold colored TiN coated Titanium Base Abutments for Zirconia at 3mm and 5mm lengths with 0.35mm cuff height for Nobel Replace Select, Zimmer and BioHorizons (internal connection).

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?

Whip Mix has announced it now offers milling services for dental laboratories.

Ivoclar Vivadent transformed the world of restorative dentistry several years ago with the introduction of IPS Empress®, the ultimate in metal-free esthetics. Then they changed everything again with the stronger, popular IPS e.max®. Now Ivoclar Vivadent is taking another step toward delivering solutions to laboratories of all sizes and services with the recent acquisition of Wieland Dental and Wieland Precision Technology (WPT) .

Introduced at the recent ADA Annual Session in New Orleans, Carestream Dental’s new CS Solution for CAD/CAM restorations is said to offer dental practitioners the ability to scan, design, mill, and place a restoration in a single appointment.