Digital Occlusion Reconstruction

Records before design

Reconstruction cases start with records: electronic facebow (for example Zebris), intraoral scan, photographs and, where indicated, a digital bite registration. Without these the new occlusion is a guess.

The records are merged into a virtual patient, and the planned tooth positions are checked against the facial reference before anything is produced.

Splint, provisional, final

The new occlusion is tested in a milled splint, transferred to a provisional, and only then produced in ceramic. Each stage is scanned, so the final restorations inherit the approved scheme rather than a new interpretation of it.

What the laboratory needs

Photographs with retractors and a shade reference, the facebow record, the scans and a written description of the target: vertical dimension, incisal edge position, smile line and midline.