As a patient, have you ever wondered who puts the stamp on your smile? Most people have encountered, not once but more than once, the creation of prosthetic work (crowns, bridges, dentures, veneers, etc.). So, after you decided to do something to improve your oral health and beautify your smile, you bravely came to the dentist, sat down in the chair, talked about all your problems and, of course, expressed your wishes. After your doctor has finished repairing the existing state of fillings, treatment, perhaps tooth extraction and grinding in preparation for future prosthetic work, the impression or scanning phase follows, after which we come to the process of trying on the work that will ultimately adorn your smile. But is it all as simple as it seems at first? Many doctors would disagree and they would be right. Although it looks simple, these are complex interventions in which the result would be missing without teamwork. Which means that neither the patient, nor the doctor, nor the technician would be satisfied. The quality of service and the possibility of providing more services are far greater than 15 years ago! The changes taking place in the digitization system have not bypassed our profession either, both in the practice area and in the laboratories of dental technology.

Today, it is unthinkable that prosthetic work planned in the office is not accompanied by the dental laboratory with its laboratory planning of prosthetic work. The processes between the doctor’s office and the laboratory are rarely known to the patient, but they become more and more complex every year because the digital world of technology is developing at an unprecedented speed, so our results are becoming better, more modern, more precise and more beautiful. But in order to meet all the criteria, close contact between the doctor’s office and the laboratory is necessary, and they must be persistent. At the same time, we must not forget the patient and his cooperation, both with the doctor’s office and with the technician in almost all phases of making a prosthetic prosthesis.

In today’s era, when intraoral scanners, dslr cameras, software for planning and designing, and printers and milling machines are at our disposal, the processes in the laboratory are far more complex and “turned upside down”, and that is how one of the most famous processes for the production of prosthetic aids, called Backward planning”, which implies that we first start with the digital planning of what we want to get in the end, and only then do we start with the stages of making a prosthetic replacement.