Dental Lab Products

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 Infinity ZR sintering furnace is a fully programmable, multi-phase sintering furnace designed to give labs years of dependable service, user flexibility and consistency.

The dentist doesn’t have time. Dentists are busy people-and adding the time to get a fully esthetic anterior crown to their list of job responsibilities just isn’t realistic for many of them. “There will always be a need for a quality crown,” explains Tra Chambers of Express Dental Laboratory. “Chairside crowns done in 90-minute appointments will never have the same esthetics or quality as a crown created by a professional ceramist over a 40-hour timeframe.”  

For Dr. Laura Sengbusch, delivering outstanding care to the residents of her small community in Southern Wisconsin is the most important aspect of her job.  

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.

Dental Lab Workflow (for DentaLab QuickBooks) is a Web-based app that is specifically designed for use with tablets such as the Androids and Apple iPads in conjunction with DentaLab for QuickBooks, but can also be used on the desktop.

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.

Pre-shaded zirconia While zirconia has been a go-to material for labs for quite some time, more and more lab techs are discovering the exciting opportunities offered by pre-shaded zirconia. This minimizes the need for exhaustive staining, and can make finishing the final restoration a snap.

01. Core3dcentres bills itself as a “facilitator of digital relationships” for the dental industry. What do you think Core3dcentres’ role is in the dental lab marketplace? I think Core3dcentres’ Global Mission Statement says it best-“We believe in excellence in dentistry and patient care. By personalizing digital technology, we provide a complete production solution, making the benefits available to everyone, resulting in a partnership for success.”

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.

Sirona Dental, Inc has announced a special incentive for all commercial dental laboratories that complete an in-house demonstration of Sirona’s full line of inLab® CAD/CAM solutions.

3D Systems has announced its ProJet® 3510 MP 3D printer and VisiJet® Pearlstone dental material have been verified by 3Shape for prosthodontic dental model production.

Aurident, Inc. now offers the Optimet DS 6000 3D scanner, which reportedly provides several features and benefits for the dental laboratory.

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

Stratasys Ltd. has introduced two new wax 3D printers, which they say are the highest precision wax printers available to the dental industry.

Vision USA, a Dentrex company, has introduced new options to assist with labs’ safety and magnification needs.

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.

Renfert USA has announced a new laser pinhole drill, the Top spin.

Solidscape®, Inc., a Stratasys company, introduced the Solidscape® MAX², a high-precision 3D printer for manufacturing wax patterns, the newest member of the company’s 3Z® Series.

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.

Alloys are and will continue to be the gold standard when it comes to providing artistic, esthetically pleasing and lasting restorations to clinicians and their patients, according to a group of experts. While on the surface it may seem alloys have remained the same over time, new technology, engineering and blending of metals have brought about significant changes and improvements.

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.