Your cases, designed overnight.
An outsourced CAD department for practices and laboratories. You send the data and the intent; we send back a design you can defend, with the reasoning attached.
Three families of work.
Treatment planning decides what should happen. Prosthetic design makes the tooth. Appliance design makes everything that goes around it. Most cases touch at least two.
Treatment planning
Diagnostic wax-ups, smile design, implant position and prosthetically-driven surgical plans.
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Single units through full-arch — anatomy built for the space and function you actually have.
Jump to section 03Appliance design
Guides, splints, aligner setups, retainers, models, dies and try-in shells.
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Decide the case before you open the patient.
Planning is where the money and the misery are saved. We work backwards from the restoration you want to end up with, then check whether the bone, the space and the occlusion will actually allow it.
- Digital diagnostic wax-up and smile design
- Facially-driven midline, incisal plane and smile arc
- Prosthetically-driven implant positioning on merged CBCT and scan data
- Bone volume, nerve proximity and emergence feasibility checks
- Space analysis: restorative height, inter-arch clearance, path of insertion
- A written plan you can show the patient and the surgeon
Anatomy with a reason for every surface.
Library teeth are a starting point, not an answer. We set contacts, emergence and cusp inclines against your patient's function — and tell you when the design is fighting the preparation.
- Inlays, onlays, veneers and full-coverage crowns
- Bridges, cantilevers and long-span frameworks
- Screw-retained and cement-retained implant restorations
- Custom abutments and titanium-base workflows
- Full-arch: conversion prosthesis, bars, hybrids and monolithic bridges
- Material-specific thickness, connector sizing and cutback for layering
Everything that gets the restoration into the mouth.
Guides that seat, splints that fit, setups that move teeth in an order that works. Appliances are unforgiving — a millimetre of design sloppiness becomes a chairside hour.
- Tooth-, mucosa- and bone-supported surgical guides
- Pilot and fully-guided sleeve systems
- Occlusal splints, night guards and deprogrammers
- Orthodontic setups, aligner staging and attachment placement
- Retainers, space maintainers and bonding trays
- Working models, removable dies, jigs and try-in shells
What to expect, by case type.
Working days from the moment we have usable data. If a scan needs redoing, the clock starts again — and we will tell you the same day.
| Case type | Standard | Rush | What we need |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single unit crown / onlay | Next working day | Same day | Upper, lower, bite |
| Bridge, up to 5 units | 1–2 days | Next day | Upper, lower, bite, pre-op |
| Implant crown / custom abutment | 1–2 days | Next day | Scan body, tissue scan, bite |
| Surgical guide | 2–3 days | 1–2 days | DICOM + STL, plan approval |
| Full-arch / hybrid | 3–5 days | 2–3 days | Full records, photos, VDO notes |
| Aligner setup | 2–4 days | 2 days | Full arches, bite, treatment goals |
| Splint / night guard | Next working day | Same day | Arches, bite at target VDO |
Three ways to use the lab.
Start with one case. Move to a plan when the volume justifies it. Nothing is locked in, and nothing renews without you saying so.
Per case
For trying us out, or for the occasional case you would rather not design yourself.
- No minimum volume
- Two rounds of revisions included
- Files delivered print- and mill-ready
Practice plan
A monthly block of design units for clinics sending work regularly.
- Priority slot in the daily queue
- Unlimited revisions within scope
- Named designer who learns your preferences
- Monthly review call on tricky cases
Lab partner
White-label design capacity for laboratories with more work than designers.
- Work delivered under your brand
- Your file structure and material library
- Overflow cover for holidays and peaks
- Optional training so you can bring it in-house
Getting the data right.
Ninety per cent of the cases we send back are sent back for the same handful of reasons. Worth two minutes before you upload.
Ask us to check a scanCapture the margin, all the way round
A margin that disappears under tissue or blood on one wall is the single most common reason a design gets rebuilt. Retract, dry, re-scan that quadrant.
Bite in maximum intercuspation
Scan the bite on both sides where possible, and tell us if you are opening the vertical. We cannot infer a target VDO from a single buccal bite.
Include the adjacent and opposing teeth
Contacts and occlusion are designed against neighbours. A trimmed scan means a design that fits the model and not the mouth.
Say what you want, briefly
Material, shade, contact tightness, whether you are cementing or screwing. Three lines of prescription prevents a day of back-and-forth.
Practicalities.
Primarily exocad and 3Shape Dental System, with coDiagnostiX and Blue Sky Plan for guided work. Output is open STL, PLY or OBJ unless you ask for a native project file, which we are happy to supply if you work in the same platform.
Yes. Send us your parameters — cement gap, minimum thickness, connector cross-sections, milling compensation — and we will design to them. If you do not have them written down, that is often the first thing worth fixing, and we will help you set them.
You do. Once a case is delivered and paid for, the files are yours to use, archive or send to any production partner you like. We keep a copy for six months for revisions and support, then delete it unless you ask otherwise.
Send us pseudonymised files wherever possible — a case reference rather than a patient name. We do not need identifying details to design a restoration, and processing less data is simpler for both of us. Your local data-protection rules take precedence and we will work to them.
Tell us in plain language and we will change it. Revisions inside the agreed scope are not billed separately. If we genuinely cannot get to something you are happy with, we do not charge for the case.
Not in-house. We are deliberately a design and planning practice, which keeps us honest about what a case actually needs rather than what our own mill happens to be good at. We can recommend production partners in most regions.
Send one case and judge us on it.
Pick something you would normally spend two hours designing. We will hand it back with the reasoning written out.