Case Study: Drake Dental Thrives achieves faster, more profitable night guard production with Carbon

Carbon And Drake Dental’s Guide To Printing And Selling Night Guards

Drake Dental Thrives faced a labor-intensive, time-consuming night-guard workflow—wax-ups on stone models, manual acrylic processing, and skills that were hard to teach—that became untenable during COVID-19 when lab capacity was limited. To modernize, they partnered with Carbon and moved to a CAD/CAM workflow using the Carbon printer (with Keysplint clear resin) and intraoral scans to eliminate distortions, breakable models, and messy manual steps.

Using Carbon’s digital process, Drake Dental Thrives shifted to scan-to-design-to-print production, making training reproducible and freeing skilled staff for higher-value work. The change delivered measurable gains—15–20% more units with the same staff and roughly a 30% uplift in profit for Carbon customer labs—while reducing chairside adjustments, enabling easy reprints from saved files, and speeding overall turnaround.

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