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Gilbert Occlusal Splint / Night Guard

Gilbert has grown into one of the densest concentrations of family and general dental practices in the East Valley, and occlusal splint demand tracks closely with that patient population: suburban households, high stress loads, and bruxism that shows up on every recall appointment. When a Gilbert practice sends a splint prescription to Dani Dental, the workflow starts with the impression or intraoral scan file, not a round of clarifying emails. Digital file intake is open 24 hours; a technician reviews geometry and occlusal records before fabrication begins.

  • Pre-paid two-way shipping, nationwide
  • A named technician on every case
  • Margins verified against your prescription
  • Tempe + Tucson locations

THE SERVICE

Built to your prescription.

Gilbert has grown into one of the densest concentrations of family and general dental practices in the East Valley, and occlusal splint demand tracks closely with that patient population: suburban households, high stress loads, and bruxism that shows up on every recall appointment. When a Gilbert practice sends a splint prescription to Dani Dental, the workflow starts with the impression or intraoral scan file, not a round of clarifying emails. Digital file intake is open 24 hours; a technician reviews geometry and occlusal records before fabrication begins.

THE DETAIL

How we build it.

Most labs serving the Gilbert market fall into two categories: large national-volume operations that prioritize throughput over per-case communication, and small local operations that lack the digital workflow infrastructure to accept intraoral scan files reliably. Dani Dental sits in neither bucket. The lab runs a fully digital intake pipeline and a named-technician case structure simultaneously, which means Gilbert practices get the turnaround speed of a high-volume operation with the accountability of a bench-scale shop. Occlusal device quality lives or dies on the accuracy of the bite record and the precision of the fitting surface. Where production-line labs assign cases to available technicians without continuity, every Dani splint case has one named technician from impression review through final QC. That technician's name and direct line go on the packing slip. If a Gilbert doctor calls about fit, they reach the person who built the device, not a rep reading notes. That is not a customer-service feature. It is a quality-control structure. Price transparency is the third differentiator that Gilbert-area doctors mention during intake calls. Dani Dental does not publish a fee schedule that changes at invoicing. The price quoted for a hard acrylic night guard or a dual-laminate soft splint is the price on the invoice, with no handling surcharge layered in afterward. For practices managing 40 to 80 splint cases per year, predictable lab costs make a measurable difference in overhead modeling.

GETTING CASES TO US

Logistics, to the bench.

Gilbert has grown into one of the densest concentrations of family and general dental practices in the East Valley, and occlusal splint demand tracks closely with that patient population: suburban households, high stress loads, and bruxism that shows up on every recall appointment. When a Gilbert practice sends a splint prescription to Dani Dental, the workflow starts with the impression or intraoral scan file, not a round of clarifying emails. Digital file intake is open 24 hours; a technician reviews geometry and occlusal records before fabrication begins. Splints and night guards leaving the Dani Dental bench are milled or thermoformed depending on the prescription. Hard acrylic Michigan-style splints, soft dual-laminate guards, and hybrid designs all fall within standard production. Bite registration is reviewed against the prescription before any material is processed. If the occlusal record looks off, the technician flags it directly rather than guessing and shipping a device that comes back for adjustment. For Gilbert practices running a high-volume recall model, the logistics piece matters as much as the fabrication quality. Cases ship with a prepaid return label for remakes inside the warranty window, and every device includes the prescribing technician's direct extension. No general inbox. No hold queues. That direct-line model was a deliberate decision by the Dobrikov family when they set up the current communication protocol, and it remains the clearest operational difference between Dani and labs that route all contact through a customer-service tier.

COMMON QUESTIONS

What practices ask

Do you accept intraoral scan files from Gilbert practices for occlusal splint fabrication?
Yes. Dani Dental accepts STL and OBJ files from all major intraoral scanner platforms. Gilbert practices can upload files through the digital intake portal any time of day. A technician reviews the scan geometry and occlusal record before fabrication begins, and any file-quality issues are flagged within one business day of submission rather than discovered at delivery.
What occlusal splint designs does Dani Dental fabricate?
The standard offering covers hard acrylic Michigan-style splints, soft dual-laminate night guards, and hybrid hard-soft designs. Anterior deprogrammers and NTI-style devices are available on prescription. Material selection and design are confirmed against the prescription before any processing begins. If the prescription does not specify a design, the technician contacts the prescribing doctor directly rather than defaulting to a standard template.
What is the typical turnaround for a night guard shipped to a Gilbert dental practice?
Standard turnaround is 5 to 7 business days from receipt of a quality impression or approved scan file. Expedited production is available at an additional fee for cases with confirmed patient appointments. Turnaround clock starts when the impression or file clears quality review, not on the date received, because a poor-quality impression that proceeds to fabrication adds chair time rather than saving it.
How does the named-technician model work for splint cases?
Every occlusal splint case is assigned to one technician from intake review through final quality check. That technician's name and direct phone extension appear on the packing slip with the finished device. If a Gilbert doctor has a fit question or needs to discuss a remake, they call that technician directly. No general customer-service queue, no message relay. The same person who built the device takes the call.
What is the remake policy if a splint does not seat correctly?
Remakes resulting from a lab error are covered at no charge within the warranty window. Cases ship with a prepaid return label. The technician reviews the returned device and the original records to identify the source of the fit issue before fabricating the replacement, which keeps the remake from repeating the same error. The overall remake rate across splint cases is below 2.5 percent as of 2025 production data.
Can a Gilbert practice send both physical impressions and digital scans depending on the case?
Yes. Some practices use intraoral scanning for anterior cases and physical impressions for posterior or full-arch splints, or vice versa. Dani Dental processes both through the same intake workflow. The technician assigned to each case works from whichever record type the practice submits, and mixed-workflow practices are not penalized or steered toward a single submission method.

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