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An Extraoral Scanning Guide: Go Digital With Physical Materials
Educational Guides

An Extraoral Scanning Guide: Go Digital With Physical Materials

A technical step-by-step guide for scanning physical impressions, wax bite rims, and try-ins/existing dentures extraorally instead of mailing them. Covers scan-spray prep, trimming excess material, a defined scan-path strategy for maxilla vs.

Surgical Guide Types and Workflows
Education

Surgical Guide Types and Workflows

Breaks down surgical guide types by support (Teeth / Tissue / Bone) and guidance level (Full vs. Pilot), matched to patient scenario — e.

Digital Denture Scanning Tips
Scanning

Digital Denture Scanning Tips

Intraoral scanning tips specifically for digital dentures — keeping the edentulous arch dry, dimming ambient light to reduce scanner glare, using smooth continuous scanning motions, capturing the retromolar pads and vestibular/sulcus data, and reviewing for missing/distorted data afterward. Also notes that cases that can't be scanned intraorally can be handled via a PVS/alginate impression, either self-scanned or shipped to Paramount.

The Easiest Way to Protect Implants
Implants

The Easiest Way to Protect Implants

Makes the case for prescribing occlusal guards alongside implant cases, citing published research on bruxism's association with higher implant failure and complication rates (with cited failure-rate figures from a referenced study), and notes guards also protect natural dentition from wear against porcelain restorations. Includes a supporting data chart image and a sources list of three external research/clinical citations.

Replace Worn Dentures With Better Fit And Comfort (Copy Dentures)
Dentures

Replace Worn Dentures With Better Fit And Comfort (Copy Dentures)

Explains Copy Dentures — new dentures modeled on a patient's existing set, which can be an exact copy or modified to improve fit, bite, midline, or gum display after years of wear. Notes Paramount can copy dentures originally made by a different lab, available across all three Full Denture tiers (Value/Premium/Ultimate), and that the required submission steps vary depending on what's being changed (360° extraoral scan for an exact copy, bite registration if the bite needs improving).

Occlusal Guards: A Material Comparison
Materials

Occlusal Guards: A Material Comparison

A more detailed version of the material breakdown already pulled from the uploaded PDF — Comfort Printed (Paramount's recommended option, 3D-printed, Keystone Keysplint Soft), Hard/Soft (thermoformed, Erkodent double-layer material), Hard (3D-printed, Keysplint Keystone Hard resin, for extreme bruxism), and Soft (thermoformed, Erkodent flexible material, best for patients with no signs of bruxism).

Lighting and Shade Protocol
Materials

Lighting and Shade Protocol

A detailed shade-matching protocol: selecting 2-3 shade tabs in the chair (one matching, one lighter, one darker), avoiding direct lighting, photographing the tabs alongside adjacent teeth from multiple angles, and photographing the stump shade separately. Includes zirconia-specific guidance and mentions a free A2 crown sample offer for in-office color calibration.

Avoid The Most Common Implant Scanning Mistakes
Scanning

Avoid The Most Common Implant Scanning Mistakes

A troubleshooting-style list of common implant scanning errors: forgetting to select the "implant" scan mode, overscanning, rescanning the sulcus after tissue collapse, using a mismatched scan body, failing to verify scan body seating, scan body touching adjacent teeth, missing the scan body's top notches, and not removing the scan body before the bite registration.

5 Services You Didn't Know You Could Request from Paramount
Lab Work

5 Services You Didn't Know You Could Request from Paramount

Highlights five under-the-radar services: Free consultation with Clinical Director Dr. Kyle Stanley on difficult surgical guide cases, a free 15-minute walkthrough call with the head denture technician, case design pre-approval before fabrication, purchasing just the digital design, and occlusal cant adjustment via submitted patient photos.

The Importance of Smile Design
Smile Design

The Importance of Smile Design

Makes the case for Smile Design's business impact — higher case acceptance, more predictable results, better doctor-patient communication, and the ability to test alternatives before committing. Details a more complete 7-step process than what's on the main Smile Design service page (adds facial-photo guidance for pupil-line alignment, mentions checking function like occlusion and speech during the try-in).

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