Inside the lab

Decided on a screen first.

The visible part of dentistry is forty minutes in a chair. Almost everything that decides the outcome happened weeks earlier, in a room with no patient in it — a scan superimposed on a CBCT, a crown designed against an opposing tooth, an implant positioned under a restoration that does not exist yet.

10 µm

Scan accuracy

0.3 mm

Planned vs placed

14 sec

CBCT scan

25×

Magnification

Solid · Wireframe · Point cloud

One tooth, three representations.

Digital Scanning

3Shape TRIOS 5

A full arch captured in four minutes, accurate to roughly ten microns.

A wand passes over the teeth and a point cloud assembles on screen in real time. No tray, no putty, no gagging — and the file it produces drives everything downstream: the aligner series, the milled crown, the surgical guide, the comparison scan in three years.

Accuracy: 10 µm
Full arch: 4 min
Impression putty: 0

3D Smile Design

Facial scanning & video analysis

A smile is built against a moving face, not a still photograph.

Tooth proportion, midline, incisal curve and gum line are constructed against your own facial landmarks, then checked against video of you speaking and laughing. The design is printed as a trial smile you wear for a week before anything is prepared.

Trial smile worn: 7 days
Typical preparation: 0.4mm
Smile video analysis: 60 fps

CAD / CAM Production

CEREC Primemill

Designed, milled, characterised and fitted between two injections.

Anatomy is designed on screen against your own opposing tooth, then cut from a single block of lithium disilicate. The part that matters is what happens next: hand characterisation and glazing, which is the difference between a same-day crown and a flat white one.

Marginal fit: <25 µm
Design to milled: 45 min
Ceramic strength: 500 MPa

Digital Imaging

Planmeca ProMax 3D

Three dimensions, at a fraction of the dose you would expect.

A cone beam scan resolves what a flat radiograph compresses: the second canal hidden behind the first, the nerve canal under a planned implant, the crack that runs vertically rather than across. Our low-dose protocol puts a full jaw scan at roughly the radiation of a long-haul flight.

Voxel size: 75 µm
Equivalent dose: ~1 flight
Scan time: 14 sec

Guided Implant Surgery

coDiagnostiX

The position is decided weeks earlier, on a screen.

The final crown is designed first and the implant positioned beneath it, then checked against the nerve, the sinus and the buccal plate. A printed guide carries that decision into the mouth, which removes the freehand angulation error that otherwise shows up five years later as a compromised restoration.

Planned vs placed: 0.3mm
Cases guided: 100%
Five-year survival: 98.4%

None of it matters without the diagnosis.

Equipment does not decide whether a tooth should be extracted or saved, or whether twelve crowns are necessary. It executes a decision accurately. The decision is still made by a person, in the first hour.

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