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The digital laboratory blog

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

Scan & STL

2026 Comparison: 8 Intraoral Scanners Examined From the Laboratory's Side

Eight intraoral scanners examined from the laboratory's side: what each brand exports, what it locks down, and what that changes at reception.

10 min

Digitalisation

Going Digital in a Small Dental Laboratory: the 6-Month Roadmap

A six-month roadmap for going digital in a small dental laboratory, step by step, without stopping production or replacing everything at once.

9 min

Digital workflow

The Digital Workflow in a Dental Laboratory: the 7 Steps That Change Production

The seven steps of the digital workflow in a dental laboratory, from receiving the impression to delivery, and the exact point where the chain still breaks.

9 min

Management & organisation

Dental Laboratory Groups: Sharing Tools Without Breaking Anything

After an acquisition or a merger, imposing one tool on every site stalls production. The method that works starts with case reception.

9 min

Scan & STL

Collect Your Digital Impressions Automatically: 4 Methods Compared

Manufacturer portals, email transfers, point-to-point connectors or a universal inbox: four ways to collect digital impressions, compared on time, errors and compliance.

10 min

Software & cloud

Cloud Software for a Dental Laboratory: 5 Reasons to Switch in 2026

Five reasons to move to the cloud in a dental laboratory, and the questions to put to a vendor before committing on the hosting of health data.

9 min

Digital workflow

Bringing Every Scanner's Digital Impressions Into One Inbox: Why and How

Why impression reception is being centralized, and how a universal inbox gathers cases from every scanner brand into a single queue.

11 min

Software & cloud

APIs and ERP in a Dental Laboratory: 5 Use Cases That Change Production

Five concrete use cases where an API links case reception to the laboratory's ERP, and retires the copying between two systems that used to ignore each other.

9 min

Digital workflow

Retrieving your scanner impressions automatically: 4 methods compared

Manufacturer portals, email transfers, point-to-point connectors or a universal inbox: four ways to retrieve your scanner impressions, compared on time, errors and compliance.

9 min