The Marginal Fit

Lab notes worth reading, once a month.

Written by the technicians on our bench, not a marketing department. Twelve emails a year, each one short enough to read between patients.

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Material head-to-headsZirconia vs. e.max vs. layered porcelain for the indication in front of you — with the failure modes we actually see.
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Prep & scan tips that cut remakesThe five margin and scan-capture mistakes behind most of the cases we send back for a rescan.
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Case breakdowns from the benchA real anterior or full-arch case each month, start to seat, including what went sideways.
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Lead-time heads-upsHoliday closures, material backorders, and shipping crunches — before they hit your schedule.

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Issue 31 · August 2026

We pulled every case we sent back last quarter and sorted the reasons. Four of the five are fixable in under a minute at the chair.

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Issue 30 · July 2026

Translucency has come a long way, but there are three anterior situations where we'll still push you toward layered porcelain — and why.

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Issue 29 · June 2026

Fourteen days from surgical guide to final delivery, including the failed try-in nobody puts in a case study.

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