Communication
A case is a conversation between the dentist and the ceramist who makes it, not a job submitted to a queue. You can call the bench.
The laboratory
A laboratory built around the conversation.
Founded in 2021. We make ceramic veneers, crowns, bridges and implant restorations for dental practices in Singapore, from a bench at Liat Towers.
Who we are
Founded to keep the ceramics close to hand.
The laboratory was founded by Alvin Chai in 2021, and grew out of a practice that had spent years wanting its ceramics nearer. That is still how we work: an in-house bench, a named ceramist on every case, and a short walk between the dentist and the person shaping the tooth.
We are a customised laboratory rather than a volume one. Cases arrive as impressions or intraoral scans, and are planned, built and checked here before they go back to you.
Communication is multiplication. We live a life-style that breathes close collaboration with our clinicians, to provide ideal outcomes for each patient.
How we work
Three standards, applied to every case.
Checked on the model while the case is still ours to fix.
High aesthetics
Anterior work is judged in daylight, by the patient, for years. We build to that standard rather than to the schedule.
High quality
Fit, margins and occlusion are checked on the model before a case leaves us. Consistently, case after case.
Digital and hand
Designed digitally. Finished by eye.
We work from intraoral scans as readily as from impressions, and design digitally where it makes the case better — planning the shape before any ceramic is fired, so that what you agree at the design stage is what arrives at the chair.
Digital does not replace the hand at the end of it. The last decisions on an anterior case are still made under magnification, by a person.
Ownership
Part of Orchard Scotts Dental.
DDA is owned by Orchard Scotts Dental, the practice in the same building. We fabricate for OSD, and we take cases from dental practices across Singapore as our own laboratory.
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