Elegant Dental Laboratory Blog
Articles on digital dentistry, clinical tips, case planning, and dental lab workflow.
Alternate Benefits and Downgrades: Why Insurance Pays for a Different Crown Than You Placed
What alternate benefit (LEAT) clauses are, how payers apply them to posterior ceramic crowns, composites, implants and partials, how they...
Chairside Milling vs. Lab-Made Crowns: Fit, Strength, Time and When Each Makes Sense
What the evidence shows on fit, survival and esthetics of chairside CAD/CAM crowns compared with lab crowns, material limits chairside,...
How to Remove a Zirconia Crown: Burs, Sectioning Time and Protecting the Tooth
Why zirconia is hard to section, which burs cut it best and how quickly they wear, cooling and technique to...
Flexible vs. Cast Metal vs. Acrylic Partial Dentures: How to Choose
Indications and limits of flexible, cast metal and acrylic partial dentures, what trials and reviews show on retention, periodontal health...
Custom Bleaching Trays: Reservoirs, Gel Strength and Results That Last
What the evidence says about at-home tray bleaching: carbamide peroxide strength and sensitivity, whether reservoirs help, tray borders, how long...
Immediate Dentures: Records, Surgery Day and the First Year of Relines
Conventional vs interim immediate dentures, the records the lab needs before extraction, cast surgery, digital workflows, ridge resorption in the...
Night Guards: Hard, Soft or Dual-Laminate, and Upper or Lower?
What occlusal splints can and cannot do for sleep bruxism and TMD, hard vs soft vs dual-laminate materials, full vs...
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...
