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Chairside SolutionSAME-DAY DENTISTRY

From 5 days to same day.

The chairside crown loop, collapsed from eight steps and a courier window into four steps and a single visit. No shipping, no re-cast, no remakes — and no patient call-back two weeks later. The AI does the CAD work the lab used to do; your operatory does the production the lab used to do.

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§ The loop, side by side

Eight steps, or four.

Every step removed is a courier missed, a re-cast avoided, a patient chair-time saved. The traditional loop is built around a lab; the chairside loop is built around the patient sitting in front of you.

Traditional clinic≈ 5–7 days

5days

  1. 01

    Intra-oral impression

    Material, cord, gag reflex

  2. 02

    Logistics to dental lab

    Courier, 1–2 days

  3. 03

    Model casting

    Pour-up, set, trim

  4. 04

    Model scanning

    Desktop scan in lab

  5. 05

    External CAD design

    Lab technician, queue

  6. 06

    External milling or printing

    Lab production

  7. 07

    Logistics back to clinic

    Courier, 1–2 days

  8. 08

    Chairside try-in & seat

    Patient returns

Atomica chairsideSame day

1visit

  1. 01

    Intra-oral scan

    Any IOS · 60–90 sec

  2. 02

    AI CAD design — chairside

    90 sec to first proposal

  3. 03

    In-house mill or 3D print

    20–40 min, in-operatory

  4. 04

    Chairside try-in & seat

    Same appointment

No shipping no re-cast no remakes

§ What actually changes

Three things move when the lab loop disappears.

◇ Operational

One visit replaces two.

No second appointment for cementation. No temporary that fails on day 9. No reschedule when the courier misses the cut-off. Your appointment book stops absorbing slack from upstream delays.

≈ 1 fewer chair-hour per crown

◇ Financial

The lab fee becomes margin.

Every chairside crown that used to ship out is a lab invoice that doesn't get raised. Atomica replaces that line item — and the per-case software cost is paid back at three crowns a month.

Pays for itself at 3 crowns / month

◇ Clinical

You see the seat, not a hand-off.

When the design happens in the operatory, the dentist who took the scan sees the proposal, approves the margin, and confirms the contacts. Nothing gets lost in translation between the scan-taker and the technician.

Catches 96% of margin issues before milling

◇ § One visit · ~70 minutes

Anatomy of a chairside visit.

Median chairside crown timing across production users — anaesthesia to seated restoration, in a single appointment block.

  1. 0:00Moment 01

    Patient is seated

    Anaesthesia, prep, and a single intra-oral scan. No tray, no impression material.

  2. 0:18Moment 02

    Scan ingests

    Atomica auto-orients the arch and identifies the prepared tooth in seconds.

  3. 0:20Moment 03

    AI proposes

    A patient-specific crown — built from the contralateral and adjacent teeth — appears on screen.

  4. 0:23Moment 04

    You approve & adjust

    Margin, contacts, occlusion confirmed in under two minutes.

  5. 0:25Moment 05

    Mill or print starts

    The case file ships to your in-operatory mill or printer in the format it expects.

  6. 0:55Moment 06

    Restoration ready

    Out of the mill, polished, glazed if needed — ready for try-in.

  7. 1:10Moment 07

    Crown seated

    Try-in, cement, occlusion check. Patient leaves with the final restoration.

◇ Atomica · Chairside ledgerQ1 2026 · n = 2,140 chairside crowns
≈ 70 min⟦1⟧Median chairside visit
−5 days⟦2⟧Removed from the loop
0⟦3⟧Couriers per case
−71%⟦4⟧Post-seat adjustments

§ Three layers, that's it

What you need to go chairside.

Layer 01 · Capture

An intra-oral scanner.

Any IOS that exports STL, PLY, or OBJ. 3Shape, iTero, Medit, Primescan, Aoralscan — Atomica is scanner-agnostic.

Layer 02 · Design

Atomica AI.

Web-based, no install. Wizard mode for the routine case, Expert mode for everything else. Free to design, pay only on export.

Layer 03 · Produce

A mill or printer in-operatory.

Mill (Roland, vhf, Imes-Icore, Glidewell) for final zirconia or e.max. Print (Phrozen, Asiga, SprintRay, Formlabs, Ackuretta) for ceramic-filled resin or temporaries.

Already have a scanner and a mill? Atomica is the missing middle layer

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From scan to smile, effortlessly.

Start with a single case — no card, no seat, no commitment. Add more of your workflow as your digital practice grows. Free to design, forever.

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