Which software and file formats do you support?

Cases are designed natively in exocad DentalCAD and 3Shape Dental System. We accept open-architecture scan data as STL, PLY, OBJ and 3Shape DCM, and return the manufacturing-ready STL together with the exocad or 3Shape project file so your team can open and verify the design in-house.

Which restorations do you design?

Crown and bridge, implant restorations, custom abutments, digital wax-ups, esthetic anterior work, full-contour restorations in zirconia, lithium disilicate and PMMA, and digital case planning for full-arch and multi-quadrant treatment.

How do laboratories send cases?

However your lab already works. Add us as a user on your existing case portal, or send through WeTransfer, Dropbox, Drive or SFTP. Digital case submissions are accepted online at any time, and we do not ask labs to change their workflow to accommodate ours.

Who do you work with?

Dental laboratories and clinics that want design capacity without hiring a CAD technician — from single-unit overflow to full-arch planning. The studio is based in Glendale, California and works with labs across the Los Angeles area and remotely.

What is dental lab outsourcing, and how does it work here?

Dental lab outsourcing means your laboratory keeps production in-house and sends the CAD design step to an outside design partner. You upload the scan and case notes, we design the restoration in exocad or 3Shape, and you receive a nested-ready STL plus the editable project file to mill or print yourself. It gives a lab extra design capacity without adding a salaried CAD technician.

How do I choose a crown and bridge design partner?

Ask three things: whether margins are re-traced by hand or left to auto-detection, whether you receive the editable exocad or 3Shape project file rather than a locked STL, and whether occlusal and proximal contacts are set to your production tolerances instead of software defaults. A partner who can answer all three will cost you fewer chairside adjustments and less remake work.

Do you work as a remote digital dental lab design department?

Yes. GME Vision Studio functions as an outsourced digital dental lab design department: design only, no production and no patient contact. Labs and clinics in Glendale, Los Angeles and across the United States send cases remotely and receive manufacturing-ready files back on their own production schedule.

DIGITAL DENTAL DESIGN STUDIO — GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA

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Where Dental Experience Meets Digital Precision. Outsourced dental CAD design for laboratories and clinics — crown & bridge, implant, abutment and anterior cases designed in exocad and 3Shape from your STL, PLY or DCM scan data.

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Digital dental design: teal CAD wireframe molar mesh with porcelain crown surface on an obsidian viewport

CROWN & BRIDGE / FULL-ZR / MARGIN TRACED BY HANDIMPLANT / SCREW-RETAINED / LIBRARY VERIFIEDANTERIOR / E.MAX / CUT-BACK FOR LAYERINGABUTMENT / TI-BASE / EMERGENCE FROM TISSUEFULL ARCH / PMMA / DIAGNOSTIC WAX-UPCROWN & BRIDGE / FULL-ZR / MARGIN TRACED BY HANDIMPLANT / SCREW-RETAINED / LIBRARY VERIFIEDANTERIOR / E.MAX / CUT-BACK FOR LAYERINGABUTMENT / TI-BASE / EMERGENCE FROM TISSUEFULL ARCH / PMMA / DIAGNOSTIC WAX-UP

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Dental CAD design services.

DESIGNED IN EXOCAD AND 3SHAPE — STL, PLY, OBJ AND DCM IN, MANUFACTURING-READY STL AND PROJECT FILE OUT

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Crown & Bridge CAD Design
ANTERIOR / POSTERIOR / SINGLE TO LONG SPAN
Every unit starts at the margin: the finish line is re-traced by hand against the unsectioned scan, the insertion axis set so undercuts resolve without over-blocking, and proximal and occlusal contacts set numerically to your lab's preferred tightness.
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Implant Restoration Design
SCREW-RETAINED / CEMENT-RETAINED
The scan body library is confirmed against the system you actually seated before a single surface is built, screw channel angulation is checked against the ti-base tolerance, and emergence is shaped from the healing contour in the scan rather than a generic library curve.
03
Custom Abutment Design
TI-BASE / DIRECT-TO-IMPLANT
Abutment design is tissue management. Margins are placed to the tissue you scanned, the emergence tapered so the crown seats without blanching, and ti-base bonding surfaces left untouched at library specification.
04
Digital Wax-Ups
DIAGNOSTIC / PMMA / TRY-IN
Diagnostic wax-ups built to be milled in PMMA and tested in the mouth — designed to the planned vertical dimension, kept reducible, and returned with the geometry your production floor needs for a matrix or reduction guide.
05
Esthetic Anterior Design
CENTRALS / LATERALS / VENEERS
Anterior work does not survive automation. Incisal edge position first, then line angles and facial lobes to control perceived width, mirrored from the contralateral only where the mouth is genuinely symmetric.
06
Full-Contour Restorations
FULL-ZR / E.MAX / PMMA
Cusp inclines that direct force down the long axis, wall thickness held to the minimum your chosen material demands, and connector cross-sections validated before export so the case mills clean and adjusts less at the chair.
07
Digital Case Planning
FULL ARCH / SEQUENCED
For full-arch and multi-quadrant work the whole treatment is planned before any of it is designed: prosthetic space, occlusal scheme, staging across provisional and definitive phases, and a written file plan.

Anatomy of a design.

FIVE STEPS / ONE OVERNIGHT CYCLE

Intraoral scan mesh at intake: teal STL arch with three seated crown designs

Margin line traced in glowing teal around a prepared die during crown design

Occlusal anatomy sculpted onto a digitally designed molar, half porcelain and half teal CAD mesh

Amber occlusal contact map and excursive path checked between opposing crowns

Export and QC panel showing wall thickness, connector size and nesting checks on a zirconia crown

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Scan intake
Your STL, PLY or DCM files land in the case folder. Mesh integrity is checked, the antagonist and bite record confirmed present, and the implant library verified before anything else happens.
02
Margin marking
Auto-detection runs, then a technician re-traces the finish line by hand against the unsectioned scan. The insertion axis is set and undercuts resolved rather than blocked out.
03
Anatomy build
Library selection, then free-form sculpting. Cusp inclines, marginal ridges and emergence profile are shaped to the case in exocad or 3Shape, not dropped in from a preset.
04
Occlusion check
Proximal and occlusal contacts are set numerically and reviewed on a contact map. Excursive interferences are flagged and removed before the case moves on.
05
Export & QC
Minimum wall thickness and connector cross-sections are validated for the chosen material, then the case is exported as a nested-ready STL alongside the CAD project file and screenshots.

Selected dental CAD work.

DRAG EACH COMPARISON TO MOVE BETWEEN THE INTAKE SCAN AND THE DELIVERED DESIGN

Finished zirconia three-unit posterior bridge seated on the scan mesh

Intake scan of a prepared posterior quadrant for a three-unit bridge

SCANDESIGN

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CROWN & BRIDGEZIRCONIA / EXOCAD DENTALCAD

Three-unit posterior bridge

Screw-retained molar implant crown design with screw access channel

Intake scan showing an implant scan body in a molar site

SCANDESIGN

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IMPLANTZIRCONIA / 3SHAPE DENTAL SYSTEM

Screw-retained molar crown

Two lithium disilicate central veneers designed to a marked midline and incisal edge level

Intake scan of two prepared central incisors for veneers

SCANDESIGN

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ANTERIORLITHIUM DISILICATE / EXOCAD DENTALCAD

Two central veneers

Intake scan with soft tissue healing contour around an implant site

SCANDESIGN

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ABUTMENTZIRCONIA / EXOCAD DENTALCAD

Custom abutment and crown

Full-arch diagnostic PMMA wax-up with restored vertical dimension over the ghosted intake scan

Full-arch intake scan of worn dentition with collapsed vertical dimension before a wax-up

SCANDESIGN

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WAX-UPPMMA / EXOCAD DENTALCAD

Full-arch diagnostic wax-up

How the studio works.

DESIGN STANDARDS / FILE EXCHANGE / PLATFORMS

Margin discipline: Finish lines traced by hand, verified against the unsectioned scan.
Open file exchange: STL, PLY, OBJ, 3Shape DCM and exocad project files, in and out.
Two CAD platforms: Designed natively in exocad DentalCAD and 3Shape Dental System.
Technician-led: Cases designed by dental technicians who came from bench work.

Your lab sleeps. We design.

Digital case submissions are accepted online at any time, so a case uploaded at close of business is margin-marked, built, occlusion-checked and exported as nested-ready STL while your floor is dark — and the files are in the folder when your bench comes back.

Overnight arc from a teal night horizon to an amber sunrise with a crown travelling the trajectory

CASE IN TRANSIT

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LAB UPLOADS AT CLOSE
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DESIGN STARTS
03
QC & STL EXPORT
04
FILES WAITING AT OPEN

Outsourced dental CAD, answered.

FAQ

We are the CAD department a dental laboratory outsources. Your lab sends the intraoral or desktop scan and the case notes; we design the restoration — margins, emergence, anatomy, occlusion — and return manufacturing-ready files for your mill or printer. No production, no patient contact: design only.

CONTACT / GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA

Talk to the design floor.

STUDIO ADDRESS

GME Vision Studio

912 Norton Ave

Glendale, CA 91202, USA

PHONE

(213) 550-8313

Digital case submissions are accepted online at any time.

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PrecisionDigital DentalDesign

Dental CAD design services.

Crown & Bridge CAD Design

Implant Restoration Design

Custom Abutment Design

Digital Wax-Ups

Esthetic Anterior Design

Full-Contour Restorations

Digital Case Planning

Anatomy of a design.

Scan intake

Margin marking

Anatomy build

Occlusion check

Export & QC

Selected dental CAD work.

Three-unit posterior bridge

Screw-retained molar crown

Two central veneers

Custom abutment and crown

Full-arch diagnostic wax-up

How the studio works.

Your lab sleeps. We design.

Outsourced dental CAD, answered.

What does a digital dental design studio do?+

Which software and file formats do you support?+

Which restorations do you design?+

How do laboratories send cases?+

Who do you work with?+

What is dental lab outsourcing, and how does it work here?+

How do I choose a crown and bridge design partner?+

Do you work as a remote digital dental lab design department?+

Talk to the design floor.