App Gives Dental Wings Labs Access to Full Straumann CARES Prosthetic Portfolio

New ‘App’ provides full access to Straumann’s CARES Prosthetic portfolio for Dental Wings users

• Plug-in software module inside the DWOS software
• Full access to CARES Prosthetic portfolio including CARES customized abutments, full contour restorations, crowns and bridges
• App underscores collaboration between Dental Wings and Straumann in creating a leading software platform for digital dentistry

Basel/Montreal: As part of their strategic collaboration, Straumann and Dental Wings announce the introduction of the CARES Prosthetic App¹, a plug-in software module inside the DWOS software version 3.5.3 on Dental Wings CADCAM systems². The CARES Prosthetic App provides eligible³ Dental Wings customers full access to the CARES Prosthetic portfolio⁴ including CARES customized abutments, full contour restorations, crowns and bridges.

The collaboration builds upon the following customer benefits

Reliability

• Access to the original Straumann customized abutment
• Dental Wings customers ordering CARES prosthetics benefit from the precision of the original Straumann abutment-implant connection
• CARES products are covered by the Straumann guarantee⁵
• High-quality customized prosthetics – including cobalt chromium alloy (coron®), zirconium dioxide (zerion®), various full contour materials – designed for flexible, reliable and predictable prosthetic restoration outcome.

Profitability

• CARES Prosthetic App creates new business opportunity for Dental Wings labs to connect with Straumann dentists
• CARES Prosthetic App with DWOS software 3.5.3 installed, no additional investment required
• CARES X-Stream™, the complete implant-based single-tooth prosthetic restoration in 1 step (1 scan, 1 design and 1 delivery), saves time and cost for dental labs and aims to increase their profitability

Simplicity

The CARES Prosthetic App operates in the same software environment as Dental Wings customers are used to. Training is not required.

The Straumann CARES Prosthetic App underscores the collaboration between Dental Wings and Straumann in creating a leading software platform for digital dentistry.

Straumann constantly invests in innovating prosthetic solutions, state-of-the art milling machines and quality control processes. Each production line at Straumann is designated to processing one material in one machine with a specific milling strategy to provide the best possible prosthetics. Straumann CARES Technical support team is staffed 100% by dental lab technicians. They speak the customer’s language and understand his/her needs. Customers can always track the status of every single order to better manage the expectation on delivery time. With the knowledge of more than 1.5 million prosthetic components sold, Straumann has extensive experience in satisfying more than 2000 laboratories globally.

With CARES Prosthetic App, Dental Wings labs can profit from these advantages and work more efficiently. Through the time saved, Dental Wings dental labs can increase productivity and concentrate on offering competitive services and stronger differentiation of their products.

Support

Dental Wings customers with CARES Prosthetic App have full access to Straumann support for questions related to Straumann CARES Prosthetics.

Availability

CARES Prosthetic App is available for Dental Wings customers running the latest Dental Wings software 3.5.3 or higher and have an up-to-date software license. Customers fulfilling these criteria simply register with Straumann and start to design CARES® Prosthetics on their Dental Wings system.

1. In France and Italy, the CARES Prosthetic App is available since June 1, 2013. Global availability of CARES Prosthetic App is July 15, 2013
2. CARES Prosthetic App runs on the following Dental Wings systems with software 3.5.3: 3Series, 5Series, 7Series
3. Eligible customers are customers who have software update rights and an active license
4. CARES Prosthetic product offerings may vary and may be subject to country regulatory clearance and approval. For detailed product information, please access www.straumann.com/cares8
5. See Straumann guarantee (document number 152.360) for details