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I 45 special _ digital technologies I CAD/CAM 1_2015 The more dental practices invest in digital work- flow and exchange relevant data, the more dental labs have to adapt and serve it technologically. It is still the responsibility of dental labs to support the dentist, and hence the patient, by providing optimal process chains. That is why dental labs should regard digitisation as an opportunity. _From stand-alone solutions to value chains At the beginning of the digital dental world there were stand-alone solutions, single work steps, but nowadays there is more and more con- sideration of complex dental lab processes that can be implemented on a totally digital basis. It all started with implant navigation, digital function diagnostics, and the production of aesthetic den- talrestorationsintheformofcrownsandbridges, and nowadays these have already become main- stream, so to speak, in an innovative, modern-day dental lab. The next step in a dental world that is becoming increasingly digital is advancement towards the consideration of entire value chains —including the process of making full dentures. _Backward planning for full dentures— the digital value adding process in reverse! While in the past the introduction of digital technologies chiefly aimed at indication-related solutions for individual work steps, the focus of digital dental technologies is now on entire value adding processes. One of the last groups of topics and areas of indications, which, in digital terms, has so far only been dealt with in passing, is total prosthetics. Here in particular, though, there are innovative digital approaches that will simplify and speed up production. This is where pioneer- Fig. 5_Illustration of the conventional method of production and treatment. Fig. 5 CAD0115_42-48_Merz 02.03.15 12:57 Seite 4 CAD0115_42-48_Merz 02.03.1512:57 Seite 4