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Digital Dentistry Tips: Getting the Best Margin Scan Using Your IOS

mm Written by Andrew Sedler

Impressions are always the foundation for any lab-fabricated dental restoration. Getting that excellent impression is sometimes difficult and unpredictable with conventional impression methods. Digital impressions have their own considerations that must be observed in order to capture an impression that can deliver predictable results.

What You Will Learn In This Article

Having made thousands of restorations using a digital workflow, Burbank Dental Laboratory has established some key factors that you as a clinician should take into consideration when capturing a digital impression. The focus of this article is to highlight a few key techniques for capturing the best margins with your IOS.

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Burbank Dental Lab has three new state-of-the-art Carbon M2 printers. We are very excited about the options that these cutting-edge printers will allow us to offer our dental clients. Here are some of the advantages that these printers will begin to deliver to you and your dental practice.

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Fabrication
of the future
is here!

Burbank Dental Lab has three new state-of-the-art Carbon M2 printers. We are very excited about the options that these cutting-edge printers will allow us to offer our dental clients. Here are some of the advantages that these printers will begin to deliver to you and your dental practice.

Our New
State-Of-The-Art
3d Printers

Carbon offers a highly dependable 3D manufacturing solution for many dental applications with its breakthrough Digital Light Synthesis™ technology, enabled by a wide range of dental materials.

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