About Our Lab
At Lake Lucerne Family & Implant Dentistry, we launched a fully digital workflow within our onsite dental lab in 2022, to catapult us to the highest level of patient care specifically in the area of implant-supported dentures. By digitizing and integrating the full process of planning, design and production, we have been able to significantly shorten delivery timelines, reduce costs, while at the same time increasing precision, esthetics and quality.
Our Orlando dental office has invested in an onsite lab to offer continuity of care. With every aspect of your treatment covered by the same skilled team in one location, you won't need to worry about outside referrals, countless appointments, or the extra costs and claims associated with visiting multiple providers. You'll receive our high standard of care at every step of your treatment plan, from the consultation and planning phase to achieving and maintaining your final results!
Intraoral Scanning
We use intraoral scanners to retrieve accurate, three-dimensional images that we can then instantly review alongside our patients during dental consultations. Digital intraoral scanners offer several advantages over traditional impressions, including:
- No more gagging! Intraoral scanners are way more comfortable than traditional impressions.
- Impeccable color/shape matching! A scanner’s high-resolution images help ensure greater precision.
- Faster and error free! Scanners reduce chair time for both the patient and dentist.
- Neater! The traditional process for taking impressions were messy and uncomfortable.
Facial Scanning
Three-dimensional facial scans allow for “virtual patients” to be created to facilitate more accurate data transfer to lab technicians. This allows more precise simulations across the implant-denture delivery team. By integrating other design software with implant planning technology, dentists and lab technicians can communicate more easily to achieve ideal tooth size, shape, position, and color, factoring all facial parameters for each patient.
Computer Aided Design Software
We use computer-aided design (CAD) software to import files from any digital impression scanning system. Once imported, the lab team can design a prosthesis and fabricate it by outputting to either a printing or milling machine.
3D Printers & Milling Machines
With both 3D printing and milling capabilities, we can offer a greater variety of options to our patients, ensuring individual prosthetics match each patient’s unique needs and preferences. 3D printers allow for quicker turnaround times, reducing wait times in the revision or repair of prosthetics. Milling capabilities allow for zirconia and titanium components to be produced for final deliveries.
Photogrammetry
Photogrammetry scanning provides an unprecedented level of precision in capturing implant positioning, allowing the most accurate fit possible for implant-supported dentures. We are proud to have been among a small group of pioneers in the area of photogrammetry within the USA and one of very few owners of this advanced imaging technology in the state of Florida.
