Amann Girrbach is a pioneer in dental CAD/CAM technology and is renowned for its comprehensive service offerings in the field of digital dental prosthetics. The company ensures seamless integration of its workflow solutions into laboratories and practices and caters for both newcomers and experts in digital dentistry. In the run-up to the Digital Dentistry Show on 28 and 29 June in Berlin in Germany, Dental Tribune International spoke with Michael Göllnitz, the managing director of Amann Girrbach, and Dr Elisabeth Prause, a research assistant at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, about the company’s participation in the event.
Mr Göllnitz, could you please highlight the key innovations Amann Girrbach is presenting at DDS.Berlin this year and explain how they address the current challenges in producing digital dental prostheses? Amann Girrbach’s new Ceramill Matron milling machine and highly aesthetic zirconia Zolid Bion are two first-class products for providing patients with prompt but top-quality restorations. With the Ceramill Matron, dental practices and laboratories score particularly well when it comes to producing restorations based on cobalt–chromium and titanium. The machine’s unique architecture not only ensures a new level of precision and impeccable milling quality for hard metals but also processes all other dental materials reliably and efficiently. Its wide range of applications and high level of convenience make the Ceramill Matron an indispensable all-rounder.
Michael Göllnitz, the managing director of Amann Girrbach. (Image: teamwork)
Dental technicians are bringing a real game-changer into the laboratory with the multilayer zirconia Zolid Bion. By developing this high-performance zirconia, Amann Girrbach has succeeded in meeting the demand for natural-looking aesthetics without having to compromise on safety. Zolid Bion guarantees a strength of over 1,100 MPa ± 150 MPa over the entire cross section of the blank. This means complete freedom and safety in planning and application. Zolid Bion can be used for a wide range of indications, including minimally invasive veneers, monolithic anterior crowns and long-span bridges on implants. Using the Ceramill Therm DRS high-speed furnace, crowns made of Zolid Bion can be sintered in just 45 minutes without compromising on aesthetics or safety.
Could you explain how modern digital technologies have transformed the approach to dental restoration from diagnosis to the final prosthesis, and tell us what unique benefits they offer to both dentists and dental technicians seeking to enhance their digital dentistry skills? In our view, digital dental technology has brought about two fundamental changes. Firstly, it has created connections—within the manufacturing and treatment process as well as between the practice and laboratory. With the ability to view patient data in parallel, for example via a shared data portal such as AG.Live, a restoration can be planned and executed more precisely right from the start. The closer the two parties are interlinked, the better the starting position for the laboratory and thus the quality of the dental prosthesis.
Secondly, we consider the possibility of reproducibility to be a major benefit of digital technologies for both the dental practice and the laboratory. Having the option to access patient data at any time, laboratories and dental practices can work much more efficiently. For example, a patient can be fitted with a new occlusal splint immediately and without a great deal of work, as the data only needs to be retrieved to reproduce the appliance exactly. For the dental practice and laboratory, this means more time for key issues such as aesthetics and function.
Dr Elisabeth Prause. (Image: Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
Dr Prause, your workshop at DDS.Berlin will demonstrate a step-by-step process from intra-oral scanning to final crown production using digital jaw relation determination. How do these integrated digital processes improve the precision and efficiency of creating patient-specific dental prostheses, and what insights can participants expect to gain from the practical demonstrations? The digital workflow I’ll be presenting improves and refines the design and fit of restorations based on the integration of the recorded functional data into the subsequent design of the restorations. These can thus be optimally adapted to the individual static and dynamic conditions in order to avoid craniomandibular dysfunction as far as possible.
Our workflow will offer participants insight into the practicability and implementation of the digital workflow. During the workshop, we will demonstrate its applications in dentistry. Additionally, participants will learn more about its advantages, which include simplified and faster workflows.
Editorial note:
Dr Elisabeth Prause’s workshop is titled “Patient-specific dentures thanks to IOS and Zebris” and will take place on 28 June at 13:30 CEST. The workshop will be held in German only. More information about DDS.Berlin can be found here.
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