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Workflows, scanners, software and organisation: our guides to running a dental lab in the all-digital era.

Illustration of three scanner clouds converging into one inbox Digital workflow

Centralising digital impressions from all your scanners

Why impression centralisation has become the first digitalisation project for dental labs, and how to set it up without changing your tools.

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Illustration of four scanner sources converging into one universal Digilab inbox Digital workflow

Retrieving your scanner impressions automatically: 4 methods compared

9 min
Illustration of the three dental 3D file formats: STL, PLY and DCM Scan & STL

STL, PLY, DCM: which file format for which step of the digital workflow?

1 min
Illustration of an approved software window for a dental laboratory Software & cloud

Choosing management software for your dental laboratory

Cloud or on-premise, generalist or specialised, connected or isolated — the criteria that really matter when picking your lab management software.

1 min
Illustration of an automated file import into Exocad Software & cloud

Automating Exocad imports from your digital orders

Generate .dentalProject files automatically at order intake and open CAD without a single manual step.

1 min
Illustration of moving from re-entry errors to a validated flow Management & organisation

Reducing manual re-entry errors in your laboratory

Manual re-entry is the first source of production errors. Here is where it hides and how to remove it step by step.

1 min
Illustration of automatic Medit Link order synchronisation Digital workflow

Medit Link: syncing your orders with the laboratory

The settings that let the laboratory receive Medit Link cases automatically, with nothing changing on the practice side.

1 min
Illustration of an iTero intraoral scanner sending cases to the laboratory Digital workflow

Receiving iTero cases at the laboratory without another portal

How to plug iTero scans into your existing intake flow, without watching one more portal or changing practice habits.

1 min
Illustration of digital impression archiving in the cloud Software & cloud

Archiving digital impressions: why cloud wins

Disk failure, theft, lost folders: local impression archiving is a risk. What certified cloud archiving changes day to day.

1 min
Illustration of the laboratory digitalisation checklist Digitalisation

Digitalising your laboratory: the five-step checklist

From impression intake to measuring lead times: the five digitalisation projects of a laboratory, in the order to run them.

1 min
Illustration of dental 3D files organised in a folder Scan & STL

A short glossary of digital dental workflow files

Raw scans, construction files, milling exports: the vocabulary of the files a laboratory handles every day.

1 min
Illustration of laboratory production status columns Management & organisation

Organising production with four simple statuses

Intake, CAD, manufacturing, delivery: how four well-kept statuses give complete visibility over production.

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