The dental laboratory in Tallinn is located at Toompuiestee 4/Kaarli pst 10. Enter the building from Kaarli pst. We are located on the 4th floor, in the stairwell facing the Freedom Square. There is a sign "Meliva hambalaborid" on the door.

Tallinn dental laboratory - Meliva

Meliva Tallinn dental laboratory

Meliva Tartu dental laboratory

Meliva Pärnu dental laboratory

Ordering instructions

We offer dental scanning, design, milling, and 3D printing services.

We can carry out work based on both digital and traditional impressions. We design using the 3Shape software. We have the capability to mill zirconia, plastic, cobalt-chrome, wax, and titanium (custom abutments). We 3D print various models, splints, and custom trays.

It is also possible to print from the client’s file, using tissue-friendly material.

CAD/CAM Services

The removable prostheses department specialises in the fabrication of acrylic partial and complete dentures as well as cast metal partial dentures to restore partially or completely missing teeth. We use acrylic teeth available in different price ranges, from which you can choose the colour, shape and size that best suits the patient.

Removable dental prostheses

Our ceramics department specialises in the fabrication of fixed prostheses that can be applied on both natural teeth and implants.

All-ceramic crowns, inlays, onlays, overlays and veneers

Monolithic and layered zirconia crowns and bridges

Screw-retained zirconia implant crowns and bridges (from single crowns to full-arch restorations, also with metal framework if required)

Porcelain-fused-to-metal (PFM) crowns and bridges

Screw-retained PFM implant crowns and bridges

Temporary PMMA crowns (including shell crowns)

Maryland bridges (PMMA / PMMA and metal framework / PFM / zirconia)

Implant-supported complete dentures (All-on-4) (with zirconia, PMMA or acrylic teeth)

For more extensive restorations, we will fabricate a prototype prosthesis to provide the patient with an idea of the expected final result.

In the fixed prostheses department, we use a wide range of materials from which we can fabricate the most suitable piece according to your and the patient's needs.

Fixed dental prostheses

If a removable denture develops a crack or fracture, do not attempt to repair it yourself or continue wearing it. Instead, contact your dentist.

If the denture becomes loose in your mouth, also contact your dentist. Do not attempt to adjust the denture or bend the clasps yourself.

Before bringing the denture in for repair, clean it of food residues and denture adhesive.

If plaque has formed on the denture, take it to your dentist for cleaning.

When taking impressions for denture repairs, please ensure that:

The denture has not shifted or lifted out of the impression.

When adding teeth, an antagonist impression has also been taken, wax registration if necessary, and the tooth shade has been specified.

When sending dentures for repair or remake, please clean them of food residues and denture adhesive, and disinfect both the dentures and the impressions.

In case of a denture fracture, ensure before sending it to the laboratory that the patient has not attempted to repair or glue the denture themselves, and that the parts of the denture fit together properly.

Addition of a tooth and/or clasp to the denture

Replacement of worn teeth and renewal of the base

Prosthesis Repair

In the orthodontics department, we prepare both fixed and removable orthodontic appliances, as well as aligners and splints, according to the treatment plan drawn up by the doctors.

Thanks to our long experience of working with orthodontists, we are able to carry out even the most complex work.


Splint from pressed material (soft or semi-soft material)

Functional splint with added acrylic (hard or semi-soft material)

Milled functional hard splint (with digital design)

Milled semi-soft splint in Comfort material (with digital design)

Milled functional semi-soft splint in Comfort material (with digital design)

Orthodontic appliances

We accept digital impressions taken with intraoral scanners.

When sending a digital work file, please check that correct bite has been established. If necessary, please rescan immediately.

Please send the files to the e-mail address of the dental laboratory concerned, or directly to the system when using 3Shape and Medit Link. In order to send files via both programs, you must first establish a direct connection with the dental laboratory, called a partnership. To do this, contact the Tallinn dental laboratory for 3Shape and the Tallinn or Tartu dental laboratory for Medit Link.

Tallinn dental laboratory: cadcam@meliva.ee 

Tartu dental laboratory: tartu.hambalabor@meliva.ee

We can open files in the following file formats:

3Shape Communicate Order Exchange (.3ox/.3oxz)

When sending a digital impression, please include the following information:

Digital impressions and designs

When placing an order for the services of the dental laboratory, you first need to fill in an order form. You can download the order form here. Please fill in the order form thoroughly and legibly and send it to the dental laboratory together with your dental impression.

In order for the dental laboratory to process the order, the order form must contain the following information:

The name of the clinic, doctor and patient

The content of the work according to the type of work (type of work, material, tooth shade, implant system, stage of work, and additional information if necessary)

The desired dates for the completion of the work and/or the stages of work to be carried out

If we do not have enough information to carry out the work, it will remain on hold in the dental laboratory until we have received all the necessary information to proceed with the work. The deadline for completing the work will also be postponed by the waiting time.

The above information is also required when sending a digital impression.
Please send digital impressions to:
Tallinn dental laboratory: cadcam@meliva.ee
Tartu dental laboratory: tartu.hambalabor@meliva.ee

Placing an order

When scheduling patient's visits and submitting work to the dental laboratory, please take into account the minimum deadlines for completion of the work.

If we do not have enough information to carry out the work, it will remain on hold in the dental laboratory until we have received all the necessary information from the doctor to proceed with the work. The deadline for completing the work will also be postponed by the waiting time.

If the doctor works in more than one clinic, it is very important to indicate the clinic to which the work should be sent.

Deadlines for completion of work - Tallinn, Tartu

In the case of return transport between cities, a maximum of 2 working days will be added to the deadline.

Diagnostic model, printed diagnostic model - 2 working days

Standard model, printed standard model - 1 working day

Plastering of models in the articulator - 1 working day

Framework of cast metal partial denture (does not include teeth setup) - 5 working days

Try-in / resetting of teeth - 3 working days

Final completion of the work - 4 working days

Complex, extensive repairs - by agreement

RPE (rapid palatal expander)/MARPE/Haas - 5 working days

Transpalatal arch, lingual arch - 5 working days

Essix with digital impression - 24 hours (weekdays)

Surgical splint (orthognathic) - 7 working days

Milled hard splint (without design) - 3 working days

Myopathic splint, repositioning splint - 7 working days

Splint from pressed material (soft or semi-soft material) - 5 working days

Milled hard splint (with digital design) - 7 working days

Functional splint with added acrylic (hard or semi-soft material) - 7 working days

Milled functional hard splint (with digital design) - 7 working days

Milled semi-soft splint in Comfort material (with digital design) - 7 working days

Milled functional semi-soft splint in Comfort material (with digital design) - 7 working days

Deadlines for completion of work - Pärnu

Work completion time in the laboratory is the time taken to complete the work, plus the time taken for fittings.

Plastering of models in the articulator - 1 working day


Framework of cast metal partial denture (does not include teeth setup) - 3 working days

Final completion of the work - 3 working days


Prostheses delivered to the laboratory before 14:00 are ready by 16:00 on the next working day

Prostheses delivered to the laboratory after 14:00 are ready by 10:00 on the day after the next working day

RPE (rapid palatal expander) - 3 working days

Transpalatal arch, lingual arch - 3 working days

Splint from pressed material (soft or semi-soft material) - 3 working days

Functional splint with added acrylic (hard or semi-soft material) - 5 working days

Deadlines

Correct handling of impressions reduces the risk of distortion and increases quality

Impressions must be taken with a proper size tray so that all the areas that need to be impressed are covered.

After removing the impression from the mouth, make sure that it is not bitten through, that there are no inaccuracies, or that the impression material has not come loose from the tray After an intraoral scan, also check the impression file. If necessary, take a new impression immediately.

Follow the manufacturer's instructions when handling the impression material.

Impressions must be taken with a tray of sturdy material. Using a soft flexible tray can result in an inaccurate model and thus an inaccurate final product.

All impressions sent to the laboratory must be cleaned of blood, saliva, food residues and adhesive. They must also be disinfected.

Impressions must be packaged as follows: 
- alginate impressions must be wrapped in a damp napkin and placed in a plastic bag or other moisture-proof packaging;
- the additional elements (bands, transfer posts, etc.) accompanying the impression must be placed in a separate sealable packaging.

For fixed dental prostheses, please include the correct bite registration.

For implant impressions:
- the registration must be taken from the sulcus formers and the sulcus formers must be placed in a separate package with the corresponding position in the mouth marked on the package;
- the transfers used must be without defects. If different transfers are used, please indicate the type/codes of the transfers used.
- the transfers must be correctly encased in silicone and must not loosen inside the impression;
- a double quantity of analogs must be included with the impression so that control models can be cast.

For front and wax-up work, an impression/model of the initial situation must be included and portrait images of the patient must be sent by e-mail or memory stick.

Recommendations for the selection of impression materials:

Fixed prosthesis antagonist impression – alginate

Individual tray for complete denture – silicone

Cast metal partial denture and flexible partial denture - alginate

Ordering instructions

Digital impressions and designs

Placing an order

Deadlines

Requirements for taking impressions