The Benefits of Digital Dentistry

CAD/CAM is changing the competitive arena

Mass customization
3D scanning and CAD/CAM technologies for digital dentistry are revolutionizing the industry by enabling the merging of mass production and individual customization into fast, cost-efficient workflows. Adaptation of digital methods are increasingly defining and driving the success of dental businesses, and the companies that move to meet this challenge will be the companies that grow.

Accuracy and customer satisfaction
The design and milling results achieved through digital data are extremely accurate, reliably giving perfect fits and aesthetic results for the patient - ensuring that a lab's customers happily return for more business.

High throughput, reduced training and broader technician expertise
3Shape's user-friendly and intuitive digital solutions enable significantly reduced production times compared to traditional manual methods. Training time and training costs are kept down to a minimum, and technicians can proudly produce a wider range of requested restoration types, opening new business opportunities.

Digital flexibility
To maintain a competitive edge, modern labs need to cover a wide and constantly expanding range of end-product demands in relation to both design and materials. 3Shape utilizes all aspects of digital technologies to promote an open and flexible business model that provides users with access to an extensive range of systems, equipment and manufacturing materials through both dedicated interfaces and standard file formats.

Information quality and speed
3Shape's digital technologies enhance the quality and reliability of the exacting "personalized" information required for customized dental production and the speed upon with which it is relayed to labs and entered into the manufacturing workflow. Fast and accurate 3D impression scanners provide perfect capture of all required data, and the data can then be easily transferred to labs at a remote location for design and continued processing.

Mass customization manufacturing
With digital technology and a system like 3Shape's, the manufacturing data is stored together with each customer's case. This enables a high degree of manufacturing automation and makes efficient, low-cost production possible. Automated Quality Control can then utilize the same data and equipment to verify the perfection of the end product.

Efficient communication
Digital systems spring open possibilities for efficient interaction between dentists, labs and manufacturing centers. For example, 3Shape develops Internet-based systems that enhance direct communication between dentists and dental laboratories. This allows the dentist to discuss the case "online" with the laboratory while the patient is still in the chair and during all stages of treatment.