SensAble expands European dental partner network with SILADENT, Innodema

The company has announced partnerships with SILADENT Dr. Böhme & Schöps GmbH, Goslar, Germany, and Innodema, an alliance of dental lab fabrication experts based in Belgium, both of which become SensAble authorized production centers (SAPCs). Following September’s appointment of other German production and milling partners, the new partnership appointments further expand SensAble’s dental lab market presence in Europe, where the company markets its award-winning SensAble Dental Lab System and the new modular configurations designed for the European market.

As a SensAble authorized production center, SILADENT can guarantee the fit of restorations made using authorized design configurations of the SensAble Dental Lab System and maintain quality and turnaround standards in accordance with SensAble’s SAPC program.

Also an SAPC, Innodema will be offering direct metal fabrication of parts designed on the SensAble Dental Lab System in partnership with different SensAble customers located in Belgium, the Netherlands and other European countries. Direct metal fabrication is an innovative approach that is economical and ecologically friendly and designed to meet labs’ highest quality standards.

SensAble showcased its dental lab solutions, along with numerous partner offerings by SILADENT, Innodema and others — including dental lab system reseller Antonius Koester, GmbH & Co. of Meschede, Germany, and R+K CAD/CAM Technologie of Berlin, another SAPC — at the EuroMold conference in Frankfurt in December.

“As a customer of SensAble, I’ve been amazed at the quality that is possible using the SensAble Dental Lab System, and so we are delighted to offer outsourced fabrication of SensAble-designed restorations to other labs,” said Marc Vosters, director of Innodema. “We know we can add tremendous value to those dental labs looking to move from wax to digital design. We can help them to lower the production costs of dental frames, crowns and bridges and other innovative dental applications, and this in an ecological-friendly way.”

“SILADENT is excited to be a SensAble authorized production center for Germany,” said Markus Rehse, CEO of SILADENT. “SILADENT Dr. Böhme & Schöps is one of the largest European manufacturers of dental gypsum, duplicating materials and investments, and a specialist in the casting technique. Expanding our business into digital design is a natural progression for us. Being at Euromold within SensAble’s booth is the first of many activities that will bring our joint customers the best of SILADENT and SensAble.”

With the worldwide dental lab market projected to grow to $14.5 billion by 2015¹, labs are rapidly adopting digital solutions that provide more precise and accurately-fitting restorations in less time — a savings for labs, dentists and patients. SensAble’s expanding network of dental lab partners helps assure labs of ready access to the fabrication services they need for efficiently produced, precisely fitting work for their dentists.

“We are committed to growing our customer base among dental labs in Europe and to providing them with innovative products and the wide choice of fabrication services they need,” said Bob Steingart, president of SensAble Dental. “Today’s dental labs want the flexibility of open systems while maintaining consistent quality and fit, and SensAble and its partners are meeting that need.”

About the SensAble Dental Lab System

SensAble Technologies is the only provider to offer a lab-proven digital solution for the production of both partials and crown-and-bridge restorations. The company provides turnkey systems, including components from scanning to fabrication, as well as new modular solutions that were designed for the needs of the European dental lab market. Using the SensAble Dental Lab System’s standard file formats, SensAble’s modular systems allow labs to take advantage of existing scanners and fabrication technologies they may already own, or send out their designs to their choice of fabrication partners.

1. Global Industry Analysts, June 30 2010, as cited in Dental Tribune, www.dental-tribune.com/articles/content/scope/news/region/usa/id/2445.