Dental manufacturing
high-tech in-house laboratory
Passion creates innovation
Dental manufacturing by Dental-IQ
Minimally invasive treatment philosophy
Each treatment plan is tailored to specific details and follows a minimally invasive philosophy that respects and preserves existing healthy biology and achieves the treatment goal with a minimum number of treatment steps.
Small but powerful and not off the shelf
In our practice laboratory, I use CAD/CAM technology to fabricate your all-ceramic bridges, implant crowns, inlays, crowns, partial crowns, veneers, etc. on the same day. This means that they can be fitted immediately, allowing you to leave the practice with a new smile and a new bite.
Ultra-thin veneers
Veneers are minimally invasive. However, many patients have had different experiences: instead of wafer-thin veneers, they were fitted with invasive partial crowns that bulge out like a watch glass. This has nothing to do with being minimally invasive.
Minimally invasive veneers require only minimal tooth preparation of 0.2 to 0.5 mm. In cases where patients have small teeth or gaps between their teeth or dark triangles, we do not need to grind the teeth at all and use so-called no-prep veneers or plastic ceramics, which are modeled directly onto the tooth.
High-quality ceramic
We use pure ceramic made from natural feldspar from Norway. This ceramic has a natural fluorescence and inner shine and beautiful appearance, just like young teeth.
Digital CAD-CAM process
A scanner is used to take a digital impression of your teeth. We transfer this data to a computer, which allows us to digitally create any type of restoration and transfer this digital model to a milling machine, which then transfers our digital restoration to the analog world and mills the all-ceramic restoration from a ceramic block.
Perfect finish by hand
It’s not possible without analog craftsmanship
We then refine the texture and color by hand under microscopic control until the individual ceramic piece is perfected and ready for use.
Natural shape and texture
Durability and mode of action
In our concept, we have a “library” of naturally beautiful teeth, which we have digitally copied and transferred to your situation.
A common and legitimate question from patients is how long veneers last, given the extremely thin ceramic thickness of 0.1 to 0.2 mm in some cases. Furthermore, ceramic is a brittle and fragile material. However, veneers are among the most durable treatment methods in modern dentistry. To understand this, it is first necessary to understand the structure of natural teeth.
Natural teeth consist of two substrates: enamel, which is the hardest tissue in the human body but just as brittle as ceramic, and dentin, which is the core of the tooth and a material that is less hard and more elastic. It acts like a shock absorber. Together, enamel and dentin form the perfect combination, resulting in a tooth that is hard enough to chew and cut, yet elastic enough to absorb peak loads during chewing.
A simple example helps to understand this phenomenon: Let’s assume we have a glass pane lying on a wooden floor and drop a 5 kg weight onto it from a height of 30 cm. The glass will break.
However, if we glue the glass to the floor, the same weight from the same height will not break the glass because the forces are absorbed by the wooden floor. The same principle applies to natural teeth. Enamel and dentine work together in the same way.
