A Community Voices story about frustration, freedom, and the moment digital design became a way of thinking Antoine Pinaud, dental technician and digital designer, whose work focuses on translating clinical requirements into practical guided-surgery designs. The most important moment in a digital dentistry journey is not always the first successful design. Sometimes it is the moment a professional becomes dissatisfied with an answer that is technically acceptable but clinical

Inside the One-to-Many ICP workflow, where complex math becomes a calm dialogue between two surfaces. There is a specific kind of tension in digital dentistry that occurs right before a "snap." It’s that split second where you wonder if the math will hold, if the scan body will seat, and if the virtual world will actually match the physical one waiting in the lab. In this session, we aren't looking at artistic wax-ups or smile designs. We are looking at the engine room of pre

Every module we release at BlenderforDental answers a question clinicians keep asking. The WaxUp Module answers the first one: "Where do I even begin?" What makes this particular session worth sharing is not the polish. It was a live Zoom walkthrough, unscripted, from a screen on the sunny Gold Coast, with a participant named Wolfgang nodding along at the mounting table and a software crash that was simply laughed off, restarted, and continued. That is the environment in whic

Margin prediction, live occlusal trimming, 0.1 mm supportive edges, and emergence profile refinement — automation that reduces your editing time without ever taking your judgment off the table. The Problem Every Experienced Designer Already Knows You have spent years — maybe decades — developing a feel for margins, contacts, and occlusion that no default setting can replicate. And you have also watched the industry try to replace that feel with automation: one-click crowns th