Dental News - Dental Wings collaborates with absolute Ceramics

Dental Tribune International

Fri. 22 July 2011

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MONTREAL, Canada: Dental Wings, Canadian provider of dental CAD/CAM solutions, has signed a broad cooperation agreement with absolute Ceramics (biodentis GmbH), an industrial manufacturer of dental prosthetics based in Leipzig, Germany. According to Dental Wings, the agreement will enable absolute Ceramics to integrate Dental Wings’ DWOS software platform into its CAD/CAM system, broadening functionality considerably.

DWOS is a commercially available open-software system that offers dental laboratories the flexibility to use data from multiple systems and sources in designing prosthetics. With DWOS installed at its production center and in its matchpoint Scan/Design system, absolute Ceramics will be able to offer custom abutments for all leading implant systems, in addition its own Infix technology. The common software platform will also make absolute Ceramics’ digital workflow compatible with the LAVA COS intraoral scanner sold by 3M ESPE, which absolute Ceramics offers to its customers.

“A shared standard software platform enables fast moving companies like biodentis to offer a new level of flexibility and functionality to customers— which was unthinkable just a few months ago,” Meinhard Schmidt, Dental Wings Chairman, commented. “ Using DWOS allows absolute Ceramics to provide integrated workflows to their customers. At the same time, it does not prevent them from competing for prosthetic business with other partners in our collaboration. That shows that we are offering a truly open platform with benefits for large and small players across the dental arena. Interest in our initiative with Straumann and 3M ESPE to establish and shape global standard software is growing and we are working with a number of companies who have responded to our open invitation to join us," Schmidt added.

Frank Preuss, founder and CEO of biodentis, the company behind the absolute Ceramics brand commented, “The collaboration not only allows us to offer a full product portfolio to our customers but helps us to support truly digital workflows between dentists and dental technicians even across so far closed system boundaries.”

According to Dental Wings, the need for standardization in digital dentistry is acute, as the number of different systems has risen considerably, adding complexity for dentists and dental laboratories. Standardized software could resolve this situation and is expected to be the main driver of the digital market in the coming years.

In March 2011, Dental Wings joined forces in a collaborative partnership with 3M ESPE and Straumann to create an open-standard software platform for use across a range of dental applications. At the same time, 3M ESPE and Straumann announced their intention to adopt Dental Wings’ DWOS platform as the core operating software in their CAD/CAM solutions. Biodentis is the fourth company to join the initiative.

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