How to Set Up a Digital Dental Lab: Essential Equipment Checklist

Setting up a digital lab is not "buy a mill." The order of purchases decides whether you are productive in a month or stuck in a corner.

Buy in this order

1. Scanner first: it feeds every downstream machine and pays back fastest.
2. Mill or printer second: match to your highest-volume item.
3. Furnace third: only if you sinter in-house.
4. Design seat: a workstation + CAD licence, often overlooked.

Space and air

Plan 2 m² per major machine, 5 °C-stable room, and a dedicated extraction for milling/printing. Dust and fumes in one room cross-contaminate.

Build the chain from our scanners, printers, and furnaces.

Room and power plan

• Give the mill its own 16 A circuit; a shared line browns out the spindle.
• Place the printer away from the mill's dust; particles fog the screen.
• Vent the sintering area; furnaces shed odour at 1500 °C.

Buy in this order

See the full kit in our furnace and scanning lines.