Innovative Treatment Concepts in a Team Approach — From Analogue to Digital

Digital technologies have changed the team approach between dentists and lab technicians offering access to more diagnostic information, better communication and a higher predictability. The lecture will show the status praesens and future perspectives in the cooperation of dentists and lab technicians.

Digital technologies have changed the team approach between dentists and lab technicians offering access to more diagnostic information, better communication and a higher predictability. With the transfer of the wax-up into monolithic polymer materials new options for the clinical evaluation of esthetics and function are available. CAD/CAM-fabricated bi-maxillary splints allow to exploring the final treatment goal in reversible test drives. Based on removability of the splints, surgical, periodontal, and restorative pre-treatments can be integrated in this period. Functionally the test-drive of the final restoration will provide important information in the sense of a long-term registration. Especially the occlusal design of all-ceramic monolithic restorations will benefit of this procedure. The transfer into definitive restorations can be divided into multiple treatment steps minimizing risk factors of complex rehabilitations. The lecture will show the status praesens and future perspectives in the cooperation of dentists and lab technicians.

Subject to change