Full-Arch Dental CAD Design

Full arch CAD design carries the most risk and the most reward of any restoration type. A poorly designed hybrid means a costly remake and a frustrated patient; a well-designed one is a case your lab can confidently repeat every time. We design full arch implant prosthetics against your implant plan or CBCT-guided position, checking passive fit and occlusal scheme before delivery.

Why full arch CAD design gets outsourced

Full arch cases demand a level of design time and verification that most in-house teams can only give to one case at a time. That caps how many All-on-X cases a lab can accept in a given week, even when the clinical demand is there. Outsourcing full arch CAD design to a team built specifically for this restoration type removes that ceiling — the same rigor applies whether it's your first hybrid case or your fiftieth.

We work daily in exocad and 3Shape Implant Studio across hybrid, bar-supported and monolithic frameworks, so the edge cases — an off-axis implant, a tight interarch space, a mixed dentition transition — get handled by technicians who see them regularly, not occasionally.

What's included in every case

Both provisional and final full arch restorations are part of the service — same-day provisional designs for immediate load protocols, and the final hybrid or bar-supported restoration once healing is complete. Send the CBCT DICOM alongside your scan and we design against the planned implant positions for a fully guided All-on-X workflow.

Every framework is digitally verified against the master model or verification jig scan before the file is marked production-ready, and the delivered file includes a titanium bar or framework design when the case calls for one, alongside the production-ready milling file itself.

Quality control and turnaround

Passive fit verification, occlusal scheme and vertical dimension, framework rigidity and connector design, and emergence profile at each implant site are checked on every case before delivery. Standard turnaround runs 15 to 24 hours depending on framework complexity and whether the case is a provisional or final stage.

Revisions stay within the original prescription scope and are unlimited — a full arch case is too consequential to let a reasonable adjustment request go uncovered.

Getting started

If your case mix is mostly single-unit work with the occasional full arch case, our surgical guide design service pairs naturally with full arch planning for guided placement. For everything else we design, the full services overview covers crown, bridge, denture and aligner workflows alongside this one.

Most labs send a single trial case first — typically a verification-jig scan for an existing implant plan — to check passive fit and turnaround against their own standard before routing regular full arch volume through the portal.

Full arch CAD design outsourcing works well alongside your existing digital scanner and implant planning software — nothing about your chairside workflow needs to change. Export the scan, attach the implant plan or CBCT, and a technician who designs full arch cases daily picks up from there.

Labs that add full arch design to their outsourced workload typically start with provisional cases, since the lower stakes make it easier to evaluate fit and turnaround before trusting a final restoration to the same process. Once that confidence is established, moving final-stage full arch cases through the same portal is a natural next step rather than a separate decision.

That trial-case approach applies whether you send one full arch case a month or several a week — the review process and turnaround standard stay the same regardless of volume.

Send your first scan through the client portal today to see how the process fits your lab.