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Articles

A look at some materials used to replace missing teeth from the times before organized dentistry.

5 Historical Indirect Restorative Materials Unlikely to Be Used Again

Featuring shade tabs made from BruxZir Zirconia, this new shade guide aims to make it easier to achieve highly esthetic outcomes with the material.

Glidewell Launches the BruxZir Zirconia Shade Guide

Stan Goff is a Managing Editor with MJH Life Sciences, which includes Dental Products Report, Dental Practice Management, Dental Lab Products, Modern Hygienist, and Dentist's Money Digest. He has covered the dental industry since 1999 and can be reached at sgoff@mjhlifesciences.com.  

This product roundup provides information on some of today’s top digital material choices, and also ways to easily make the transition to digital materials, including matching the digital material to your workflow.

Material Options Help Digital Dentistry Excel

New 3D printing resins are designed for efficient production of highly durable and equally esthetic 3D printed dentures.

5Ws* Flexcera Digital Dentures

The partnership was created to offer a course on the subject of digital dentures. 

Sterngold Dental Partners with AIDL to Create Digital Denture Course

The new 25-mm thick discs allow for the production of restorations with larger vertical dimensions.

Ivoclar Vivadent Expands ZirCAD Prime Options With New 25-mm Discs

Robert Elsenpeter is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to Dental Products Report and Dental Lab Products. He is also the author of 18 technology books, including the award-winning Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line. As such, he’s particularly interested in the technological side of dentistry.

3D printing is playing a bigger and bigger role in digital dental workflows, and lower costs and higher capabilities mean the technology will only grow in popularity.

Does Every Lab Need a 3D Printer?

Fast, high-resolution printer features revolutionary and patented LSPc technology that combines a large build area, extreme print uniformity, advanced process algorithms, and intelligent optimization.

Nexa3D Releases the NXD200 Dental Lab 3D Printer

Danny Diebel, CDT, FNBC, owned Dental Arts Studio Inc in Austin, Texas, for 40 years. He is a graduate and adjunct faculty member of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in Texas. Diebel served in the US Air Force and works in-house on the team of Lisa Burkett, DDS, MS, FACP, specializing in prosthodontics.

Polishing rather than glazing is the superior means for final touches to restorations for this author, who polishes all zirconia and lithium disilicate with Z-Shine Diamond Polish from Dental Creations, Ltd.

How To Achieve a Beautiful Smile Using Polishing for Final Touches

Kristin Hohman has served as Associate Editor of Dental Products report since 2019. She has a background in journalism and digital content. Kristin can be reached at khohman@mjhlifesciences.com.

Slideshows

Stains and glazes give restorations a lifelike, realistic finish.

Lab Materials