Elegant Dental Laboratory Blog
Articles on digital dentistry, clinical tips, case planning, and dental lab workflow.
Digital Bite Registration: Buccal Scans, Interocclusal Records and When to Send More
How scanners align the arches from buccal bite scans, how accurate digital and silicone bite records are, why scanned bites...
Implant Overdentures: Two Implants, Locator-Type Attachments or a Bar?
The McGill and York consensus on the two-implant mandibular overdenture, patient outcomes, how stud, ball, bar, magnet and telescopic attachments...
Emergence Profile on Implant Crowns: Angles, Soft Tissue and Custom Healing Abutments
What emergence profile and emergence angle mean, the evidence on angles above 30 degrees and convex profiles, how soft tissue...
Provisional Crowns and Bridges: Bis-Acryl vs. Milled PMMA vs. 3D-Printed Resin
How chairside bis-acryl, lab-milled PMMA and printed provisional resins compare on strength, fit, color and wear, how long each is...
Occlusion on Implant Crowns: How Light Should Contacts Be?
Why implants feel and move differently from teeth, what the evidence says about implant-protected occlusion and overload, how to check...
Screwmentable Implant Crowns: Cemented to a Ti-Base, Retrieved Like a Screw-Retained Crown
What a screwmentable crown is, what the evidence says about retrievability, residual cement and complications, materials on titanium bases, the...
Anterior Esthetic Case Checklist: What the Lab Needs for Crowns and Veneers
The records that decide an anterior crown or veneer case: photo series, facial references, shade and stump shade, approved provisionals,...
Cracked Tooth Restoration: Onlay, Crown or Watch?
Crack types in AAE terms, what the National Dental PBRN registry found over three years, when cuspal coverage helps, onlay...
