Want to learn more about our crown and bridge process at flora see our article.Lithium disilicate is an outstanding material inside its envelope and an unreliable one outside it. This guide sets out where that envelope sits: when e.max is the right call and when it is not how we fabricate it at Flora, and [...]
Patients ask you how to clean a retainer far more often than they ask how it was made. The answer changes with the appliance: an Essix shell, a Hawley plate and a bonded wire each tolerate different cleaning routines, and the wrong one warps plastic or loosens acrylic. This guide sets out the routine to [...]
UK lab guide to Essix retainers: material gauges, digital vs impression workflow, wear protocol, durability and same-day/next-day DAMAS/GDC turnaround.
A flipper tooth is a removable acrylic partial denture that holds one or more pontics in place while a definitive restoration is planned. Most of the public material on it is patient-facing. This guide is written lab to dentist: when a flipper earns its place in your treatment plan, the material we use, how long [...]
This UK crown and bridge lab guide for dentists covers what our crown and bridge lab fabricates, from a single crown to a multi-unit bridge, what to send, the materials we offer, our digital workflow, and turnaround. Crown and Bridge Materials at a Glance MaterialBest forPreparationKey considerationZirconia (monolithic)Posterior strength, bruxers, minimal spaceConservativeStrongest option; less translucent [...]
CAD CAM dental means we take your digital scan, design the restoration in software, then mill or print it. Here is how that workflow runs in our lab and what it changes for your case quality. CAD CAM dental is the design and manufacturing half of the digital dental lab workflow we run. You send [...]
This UK lab guide covers the bonded fixed retainer we fabricate for dental practices across England: a thin lingual wire fixed to the back of the anterior teeth to hold them after active treatment. It covers how we fabricate fixed retainers in the lab, the wire types we use, indications, failure and repair, and exactly [...]
Composite veneers are tooth-coloured resin restorations placed either directly chairside or fabricated indirectly in the lab. This guide covers when each route fits, how they wear, and the lab role for indirect cases. Most of what is written about composite veneers is aimed at patients and stops at the chairside direct technique. This guide is [...]
This UK lab guide covers complete and immediate dentures: one of the most stage-dependent cases we make. Get the impressions, jaw registration and try-in right and the fit looks after itself. It covers how we fabricate complete dentures and immediate dentures for practices across England, and what to submit at each stage. We are a [...]
The term night guard covers a wider range of clinical decisions than most prescription forms suggest. A soft guard for a patient who grinds moderately is not the same appliance as a Michigan splint for a patient with a measured ICP-CR discrepancy. An NTI device for bruxism-related headache management follows different design logic again. When [...]
