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Digital Dental Implant Workflows: A Practical Guide

By 3D DDS / September 9, 2026

A restorative team can lose control of an implant case without making a single obvious mistake. The surgeon may plan around available bone, the lab may design from an outdated model, and the provisional may be shaped at chairside without reference to the smile design the patient approved. Each decision can look reasonable alone, yet…

How to Improve Scan Quality for Digital Dentistry

By 3D DDS / August 12, 2026

A scan can look clean on the screen and still come back from the lab with a missing distal, a fuzzy margin, or a patch of mesh noise that makes the design team stop and rescan. That’s the core problem with how to improve scan quality in digital dentistry. The issue usually isn’t just the…