The latest writings from our team

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IPR (interproximal reduction) is the controlled removal of a small amount of enamel from the mesial and distal surfaces of teeth to create space, correct tooth-size discrepancies or improve tooth…

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The main types of crowns are all-metal (gold or base-metal alloy), porcelain fused to metal (metal-ceramic), all-ceramic (feldspathic or leucite glass-ceramic, lithium disilicate and zirconia, monolithic or layered) and resin-based…

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Zenith doesn’t publish a dental laboratory price list. We quote per case, because the same prescription line (“posterior crown”, “implant crown”, “six veneers”) can hide very different amounts of work….

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An intraoral scanner is a handheld optical device that projects light onto the teeth and soft tissue, captures thousands of images and stitches them into a 3D surface model that…

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A “dental mechanic” is the old, colloquial name for what is now called a dental technician in the UK — the professional who makes crowns, bridges, dentures and appliances to…

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A dental 3D printer builds objects layer by layer from a liquid photopolymer resin cured by light — additive manufacturing, the opposite of milling a solid block. In a modern…

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CAD/CAM dentistry is the use of computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) to design and produce dental restorations and appliances from digital data, connecting scanning, digital design and computer-controlled…

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Dental splints are used to stabilise teeth when mobility, trauma or occlusal factors make controlled support clinically appropriate. The three main categories are periodontal splints, used primarily to stabilise mobile…

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Composite injection moulding is a minimally invasive way to translate a diagnostic wax-up into direct composite restorations, by injecting heated flowable and packable composite through a clear stent onto unprepared…