A practical note for clinicians sending a prosthesis to a laboratory. Not a paper in the journal, and not a standard of the association.
A laboratory can mill only what it can read. The minimum that makes a design request intelligible is small: a written instruction, a shade that has a name, and a mesh that opens. Imaging belongs in that package when the clinician says the design depends on it. This note does not set a protocol. It describes the difference between a file that can be worked on and a message that still has to be interpreted.
The association’s education calendar is a separate page. Nothing here changes membership, examinations, or the journal.
Stage, arch, material, and shade should sit on one page. A provisional and a final prosthesis are different requests. A chat message can correct a line. It should not be the only record of the line.
TrazaLab, a separate dental case system, publishes a free dental lab prescription form. It is a blank. It does not check that a prescription is complete, it is not an association form, and filling it in does not admit a case to any laboratory.
A shade is a name on a guide, plus a note of which guide was used. “Match the photo” is a hope. The free shade guide on TrazaLab is a reference for VITA Classical and 3D-Master zone names. It does not measure a tooth from a camera, and it is not a required instrument of this association.
If the design or the scan is an STL, open it before the laboratory is assumed to have the same shape. The free STL viewer opens a dental mesh in the browser. If a copy will not open, the free STL repair page can be tried on that copy. A mesh that then opens is still not an accepted prosthesis. Fit, occlusion, and material remain clinical decisions.
TrazaLab also publishes a dental DICOM viewer in Spanish. It is a viewer. It is not a radiology report, and this note does not claim a list of formats or a diagnostic use.
It is not peer-reviewed. It is not an article of Acta Implantologica. It does not create a duty, a pass mark, or a requirement to use TrazaLab. It does not report outcomes, and it does not say that any record set prevents a remake.
The clinician sending the case remains responsible for the prescription, the imaging, and the acceptance of the design. The laboratory remains responsible for what it fabricates from the records it was given.
No. It is a practical education note. It is not peer-reviewed, it is not an issue of the journal, and it does not add a rule to the standards.
A written request that names the stage, the material, and the shade, plus a mesh the laboratory can open, and the imaging the clinician has said the design depends on.
No. They are free browser tools from TrazaLab dental SaaS software: a blank form, a shade-name reference, and an STL viewer. Opening a file is not acceptance of a prosthesis.
Educators pointing members to practical tools can send them to TrazaLab's laboratory dental software homepage.