Dental Tribune Indian Edition

8 Dental Tribune Indian Edition - September 2013Daily Digital Dentistry * Source: GfK and SDM market data 2010 for LuxaCore The Nr.1 in Germany and USA!* No other core build-up material comes closer to the natural properties of dentine than the new LuxaCore Z-Dual: This premium composite for core build-ups and post cementations cuts like dentine. LuxaCore Z-Dual is the first material of its category that combines true DMG-patented nano technology and zirconium dioxide. With LuxaPost, the new glass fiber reinforced and pre- silanized composite post, DMG offers the perfect partner for LuxaCore Z-Dual. www.dmg-dental.com Yet even closer to nature – LuxaCore Z. AZ_LxCZ_A4_E_1301.indd 1 01.02.13 14:24 Author_Dr Curtis Jansen, USA _Restorative clinicians have been spoiled in the past regarding materials for direct and indirect restorations. We’ve had the great luxury of seeing an ad in a journal, getting an offer in the mail or online, or attending a CE course about a new product, technique or service, and then immediately or the next day, we could take action. If we saw a new restorative material for fabricating restorations, we would simply write the request on a lab slip for the new material and expect to get it back in a couple weeks. Think of the poor laboratory technician on the other end, reading perhaps for the first time, the method you want used to fabricate your restoration or a specific new material or a mix of materials and techniques. Remember, a laboratory slip or prescription is a work authorization, and if you write one, the laboratory technician has to comply. If we change our minds for the next restoration, we simply prescribe something else. I’m sure technicians sometimes feel as if they’re chasing their tails with all the new materials, techniques and requests. Consider the investment in materials, systems, training and the learning curve they have to endure every time a new material is pres- cribed. To the relief of patients, dentists, team members and technicians comes CAD/CAM dentistry and a little bit of sense and sensibility regarding dental materials. Dental material manufacturers need to invest in the technology, methodology and pro- duct design, as well as the material evolution to the restoration (blocks, mandrels, discs), in order to introduce a new material for CAD/CAM dentistry. Then, in collaboration, dental CAD (computer-aided design) and dental CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) developers must work with that material to produce consistent optimized results. This takes time and effort. Only those materials proven through economic evaluation, clinical validity and proven demand will make it to the final stages and into the software of the CAD systems and into the mills of the CAM systems and ultimately into our patients mouths. CAD/CAM also requires the dentist to take more control of all facets of patient care; it requires more thought than a whim and a hand- written prescription to choose the right material. CAD/CAM requires thinking through the restorative and aesthetic process before proceeding with a restoration, all better things for the dental professional as a whole. As more and more laboratories and dentists invest in digital dentistry, everyone gains. I’m “all in” for “daily digital dentistry.” I have digital impression- Welcome to the “Block Party” Figure 1: Chairside CAD/CAM System. (Photos/Provided by Dr Curtis Jansen) Figure 2&3: Lava Ultimate is ideal for implant superstructures. → DT page 14