How long does All-on-X take?

For oral surgeons and prosthodontists managing full-arch implant cases, the surgery-day timeline is the critical variable. The provisional arch must be designed, milled, and ready to seat the day implants are placed. That requires the lab to receive a pre-surgical CBCT, intraoral scan, and bite registration in advance, usually 7 to 14 days before the surgical date. When that window is compressed, same-day delivery breaks. Planning the prosthetic workflow before the patient is in the chair is not optional.

Osseointegration is the long pole in the timeline. Most full-arch cases require 3 to 5 months of healing before the final prosthetic is fabricated. During that window, the provisional carries full occlusal load, so fit and material strength matter from day one. Dani Dental mills provisionals in PMMA with the same digital case file used for the final zirconia arch, which means the conversion appointment runs on confirmed measurements, not re-impressions.

Once osseointegration is confirmed and the final impressions or verification jigs are submitted, lab fabrication of a monolithic zirconia full-arch prosthetic runs 5 to 10 business days. Same-day or next-day turnaround claims from milling centers typically apply only to single units, not full-arch frameworks. For DSOs standardizing full-arch protocols across 10 or more locations, building the realistic 4 to 6 month total window into patient consultations reduces remakes and reschedule friction downstream.