CEREC and inLab Milling Units – Choosing the Right Mill for Your Practice or Lab

A mill is the most expensive thing in the room, and most owners never open its settings. The wrong unit stays a wet mill for life, a water jet that misses the bur quietly wears it out, a softened filter lets ceramic through to the jets, and a lab machine wants its spindle kit run every day.

By the end of this course you should be able to say which Dentsply Sirona mill suits your practice or lab and why, tell a two-motor unit from a four-motor one on sight, know what dry zirconia milling takes on each, and find your way around a Primemill’s screens without the manual.

Anton Martin recorded it for iDD. Years as the CEREC specialist for Dentsply Sirona New Zealand stand behind it, and the course is filmed on real units in three practices and a working Auckland lab, including one five years into service.

He recorded this in June 2022. All the information and processes are still relevant; just the model line-up, the software version and the features he describes as coming are from 2022.

Eight lessons and 53 minutes, in one chapter. Expect a hardware course, not a design or workflow course.

Lesson 02 is the buying comparison: the line from 1987 to the Primemill, then every current unit’s motors, axes, block size and dry-milling readiness. Lessons 03 to 06 open the chairside units up on camera, with the longest a screen-by-screen walk through the Primemill’s interface, and the last two visit the lab’s inLab MC XL and 5-axis MC X5.

What you will learn

• Why the Primemill sits where it does
• Two motors against four, and what four buys you when you switch between ceramics and zirconia: the machine changes burs itself, and a spare pair keeps you milling if a motor fails
• Block capacity, wet and dry milling, and which older units cannot be converted to dry
• The MC X, the MC XL Premium and the Primemill opened up on camera
• The Primemill’s interface, block by block and setting by setting, and how to reach it from a browser
• What a 5-axis mill does that a 4.5-axis mill cannot
• Which lab unit mills a disc overnight, cuts metal and can flange a denture, and what it asks of you in daily maintenance in return

1.5 CPD/CE hours, assessed by a ten-question quiz with an 80 percent pass mark and unlimited attempts.

You get lifetime access, updates included.

Written for dentists weighing a chairside mill, lab owners looking at the inLab range, and current Primemill owners.

It does not teach the CEREC clinical workflow or the design software. Those are in Anton’s CEREC Clinical Workflows, the lab side in depth is in his inLab course, and what happens to the restoration after it leaves the mill is Dr. Ahmad Al-Hassiny’s Perfect Ceramic Processing. The CEREC Same-Day Excellence bundle includes all three with this course; Perfect Ceramic Processing can also be bought on its own.

Sold as part of CEREC Same-Day Excellence.