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12 implantology section DENTAL TECHNOLOGY, JANUARY-MARCH 2024

terms of time for training the dentist’s office and laboratory team to CONCLUSIONS
use the instruments, machines and software. As a matter of fact, The advantages of the digital technique widely exceed the high costs
using these technologies required learning new skills that are not yet and time required for the integration in the dentist’s office and in the
widely covered in most education and academic programmes. In dental laboratory.
addition, training activity is currently entirely left to private initia- Having been confirmed for decades now, this makes it impossible
tives, often influenced by financial interests of the companies pro- to follow only analogue and ignore digital techniques. Those who
moting training events. have adopted digital techniques and fully integrated them in their
work process are already enjoying the benefits of this investment
DEBATE both from an efficiency and quality standpoint, and this subsequent-
The advantages of CAD-CAM have been objective and clear for sev- ly leads to economic benefits.
eral years now both for the patient and for the dentistry and dental
technical team.
The skepticism still harbored by some operators of the dental
industry probably arises from attempts without sufficient training
and use of instruments that are insufficiently accurate with respect to
the standards required for supported and non-supported dental pros-
thesis.
Every year, both for converting dental laboratories and for dental
clinics, there is a gradual but consistent transition from analogue About the authors
techniques to increasingly wider and extensive digital techniques.
The greatest beneficiaries are patients who get a faster, more effi- Domenico Benagiano, DDS
cient, effective and more accurate service.
Co-Author:
Another advantage of the digital technique lies in the fact that Claudia Salerno, DDS
even if there was a production error, this can be overcome without
having to start the production process afresh, therefore cutting costs
and reducing times.
Instead of a workflow that requires physical transportation of the
prosthesis between the dentist’s office and the laboratory, there is
now a new paradigm in which the laboratory can manufacture the
prosthesis consistently and uninterruptedly, given that trials and ver-
ifications are performed on “disposable” copies which can also be
delivered to the patient temporarily.