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Bringing your lab work in-house is not a technology decision. It is a business decision, and most dentists make it the other way around. They see a colleague post a milled crown or a 3D printed ...
"You must stay current, or you will be left behind." That is not a marketer talking. That is the president of the Chicago Dental Society, and he means it as a word of caution to every clinician ...
Every material that now sits comfortably in your operatory was once something the profession didn't trust. Zirconia is a great example. In the mid-2000s, the standard indirect restoration was still a PFM (porcelain-fused-to-metal) crown. Dentists tolerated ...
Medit has started previewing Medit Orthodontic Suite (MOS) 2.3, the first major update to its ortho software since it relaunched the platform alongside Medit Aligners in 2025. I have been testing it for some time, and this ...
Cosmetic dentistry looks nothing like it did 30 years ago, so on this episode of Digital Dentistry Decoded, I put a simple question to a dentist who has practiced through the entire shift. What has actually changed, ...
Every restorative dentist carries the same fear. Once the bur touches enamel, there is no undo button. Guided tooth preparation is the answer, and it is the subject of two full chapters inside our Aesthetic Smile ...
A framework that misses passive fit by just 40 to 50 microns, roughly half the width of a human hair, can cause screw loosening, bone loss, and eventual failure. That is not a rounding error. That ...
A patient does not decide to go ahead with treatment by weighing your diagnosis against doing nothing. They decide by weighing how they feel about you, about the outcome, and about themselves in that outcome, against ...
An implant with less-than-ideal primary stability, an implant crown screw access hole through the facial surface, and a ridge that turned out softer than the scan suggested. Ask where each of these problems actually started, and ...
An iDD member recently asked me a question I get quite often. They wanted a proper comparison of how the current generation of scanners handles soft tissue and edentulous ridges. In short, which scanner is best ...
What a 92 Percent Case Acceptance Rate Looks Like in Cosmetic Dentistry Welcome back to another episode of the Digital Dentistry Decoded podcast. Dr. Ahmad here from iDD. This week I sat down with Dr. Brian ...
Phrozen has long been a familiar name in the dental 3D printing space, but perhaps not for the reasons they would prefer. For years, dentists and lab technicians bought the consumer-grade printers, tinkered with settings, hacked ...
Interesting news last week - Dentsply Sirona and HeyGears have confirmed that the Lucitone Digital Print Denture resins are now validated for one-piece denture production on the new HeyGears UltraCraft Multi-Material Fusion (MMF) DLP 3D printer. ...
Shining 3D Just Announced a Chairside Printer the Size of an Espresso Machine Shining 3D Dental has been on an impressive streak. First, the Aoralscan Elite disrupted photogrammetry. Then the Elf came out and turned heads ...
There are product launches, and then there are product launches that make you stop and pay attention. Today, Shining 3D Dental announced two new chairside 3D printers: the Ceramix-Nano Capsule Pod 3D Printer and the aggressively ...
Over the past few months, SprintRay has released a new priming tool for Midas capsules, brought its multi-unit capsules to market, and started sharing technique guides for cementing and finishing printed crowns. Here is a rundown ...
Here is the thing about a bad scan or a poorly done tooth prep. A lot of clinicians don't realize it at the chair. You find out days later, when the lab calls or emails, or ...
If you have followed digital dentistry for any length of time, you will know that exocad sits at the center of a huge number of lab and chairside workflows worldwide. The software is ubiquitous in the ...
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