Companies partner to advance chairside workflows amid dental 3D printing boom

The growth is being driven by increasing adoption of digital workflows in dental practices, including intraoral scanners, CAD/CAM software and 3D printing technologies. (iStock)

GC America, the North American subsidiary of Japan-founded GC Corporation, whose global headquarters are now in Switzerland, and Los Angeles-based SprintRay have announced a partnership aimed at helping dentists adopt chairside 3D-printed restorative workflows. The collaboration reflects a broader shift in dentistry toward same-day restorative treatment, where crowns and other restorations can increasingly be designed … Read more

DDD Roundtable: Dental Wishlist

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In part 6 of our Data Driven Dentistry video series, the roundtable discusses the impact CAD/CAM dentistry devices have had on their practice. *Between February and March 2018, RKI, a third party independent research house, conducted a 10-minute online survey of active, practicing non-hospital affiliated dentists and dental specialists on behalf of Oral Health. Using … Read more

Superior and More Affordable Solutions for Dental Labs from 3Shape

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3Shape to present at IDS its brand-new line of high quality, more affordable, E dental lab scanners and flexible LabCare subscription models to make CAD/CAM digital dentistry more cost effective for dental laboratories. Superior and more affordable 3Shape lab scanners 3Shape will introduce to IDS its new E scanners for dental laboratories. The E scanners … Read more

How an 18th Century French Mathematician Inspires Modern CAD/CAM Dentistry

From Starget The work of Pierre-Simon Laplace, a French mathematician – think Descartes et al – was pivotal to the development of mathematical astronomy and physics.  He formulated Laplace’s equation and pioneered the Laplace transform…… Read more – Page 38

Coffee table books personalize the Comprehensive Dental Experience

In a world of CAD/CAM dentistry, the inevitable has to be that people will share the information on their dental treatment as much as they will share their visit to Costa Esmeralda (a stay in the presidential suite of the Hotel Cala di Volpe is 35K a night) or the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives with … Read more

CAD/CAM – deep in the heart of Texas

DALLAS, USA: Dentistry will be presented bigger than ever on the world’s largest high-definition screen. That’s according to organizers of CADapalooza ’10, an event scheduled for 17-19 June at the new Cowboys Stadium in Texas. Dental professionals are invited to join a high caliber lineup of speakers in what could be the event of the … Read more