Dental Lab Products

Dental Lab Products looks at the hourly and annual salary numbers for dental lab technicians in the United States.

Whether the millions of people who sit in a dentists’ chair each year know it or not, dental technicians are a key part of the workflow that gets restorations into their mouths.

Dental technicians must be able to depend on separating and trimming discs when trimming different materials. Renfert’s Dynex separating and trimming discs are designed to fill that need.

Empire Dental Solutions has announced they now offer the White Peaks Dental product line for CAD/CAM milling of temporary and permanent crowns, bridges, abutments and bars.

Q&A with Dr. Bryan Couch, DDS, Complete Smiles Dentistry, Coppell, Texas

It’s clear by now that intraoral scanning is here to stay. Digital impressions are changing the relationship between the lab and the dentist, and it can be a confusing transition.

Technology keeps moving and changing with noticeably different and better results. In the author’s career, he has been fortunate enough to be involved with several full-mouth restoration cases.

One of the things I’m continually amazed by in the dental lab world is the commitment to artistry from the average dental technician.

In our most recent feature for Dental Lab Products, we talked a lot about esthetics. As part of that article, we asked the same experts we spoke with in the story what tips they'd give to lab technicians looking to increase the esthetics of their work in a modern context.

Officially launched at IDS 2015, Planmeca Romexis Smile Design allows dentists to design new smiles using a simple 2D facial smile photo and intelligent teeth silhouettes.

Jim Collis, CDT, shows this step-by-step technique to use TRINIA material to create substructures for dental restorations.

3D printing is an ever growing part of the dental industry.

The past decade has been a remarkable time for cosmetic dentistry. The profession has advanced on several fronts, including exciting new materials and technologies.

BEGO’s new Varseo 3D printing system offers eight different high performance resins that can be changed from one job to the next in less than 30 seconds.

MIST Inc. is now a distributor of the imes-icore CORiTEC 450i and 650i industrial mills. Both include exclusive CAM software strategies developed by IMILLING, a milling center specializing in implant prosthetics.

During our annual pilgrimage to the California Dental Association spring session in Anaheim and Lab Day West in Garden Grove, Calif., some new products caught the eyes of our editorial team.

Looking at the latest products and solutions unveiled at Lab Day West and CDA South in May 2015.

Throughout the course of several articles last year, we explored the future of digital dentistry and how it could help your lab counter business threats, grow and help you do highly esthetic work in a more cost-effective and efficient way. But what comes after digitization?

As technicians, we all want to be comfortable with the workflow to process cases through the lab. Most technicians are most comfortable with what they have been doing for years. They may bring CAD/CAM into the process here and there, but they haven’t fully given in to the digital revolution. Yet, with a greater understanding of today’s machines and software, the dental lab can improve on this, providing more precise restorations while still improving turnaround time.

Renfert USA has recently introduced two dust extractors, the SILENT compact and SILENT compactCAM.

Dental and laboratory experts weigh in on what dental technicians need to know about the new workflow.

When you think about it, the process of creating a restoration is sort of a miracle. The fact that a piece of human anatomy can be replicated quickly and at reasonable expense is nothing short of astounding.

By enabling the digital production of monolithic zirconia crowns and bridges, CloudPoint™ from Glidewell Laboratories reportedly offers dental labs the most affordable means of providing the CAD/CAM-produced restorations that doctors demand. CloudPoint is a complete one-stop solution, unlocking a digital portal through which cases can be scanned, designed, managed and produced.

Straumann has announced four new developments for dental laboratories-including new ceramics, bar components, efficiency improvements and centralized milling investments. 

Dental labs accomplish amazing things. 

Valplast International Corporation recently unveiled revealed their new solution to bring digital dentures to existing CAD/CAM users. Platinum 3D from Valplast is a new product line featuring the new Platinum Series brand of denture tooth by Valplast, a multilayered, nano-filled PMMA denture tooth.

Want to learn about all of the different ways 3D printing can be utilized in a production dental laboratory? Then our 3D printing webinar is for you!

According to a new press release from ETI Digital Technology, Dental Wings h?as just released its latest version of their software, Version 5.0.

Zahn Dental has announced they have a new North American Technical Support Team.

The first time you bought a computer, terms like server, gigabyte and RAM (among others) were probably somewhat befuddling. Every technological thingamajig has its own vocabulary and concepts, which can be confusing to those new to the device.