Once the design of the framework is completed, the data is transferred to a milling unit for fabricating the framework.
The data is either transferred from the CAD unit to the computer-assisted manufacturing (CAM) unit, or a conventional wax-pattern is scanned as it is with the Cercon system. The Cercon and Lava systems use partially sintered Y-TZP–based blanks for milling the infrastructures, whereas the DC-Zirkon infrastructures are milled from fully sintered Y-TZP–based blanks by the DCS-Precident system. With a partially sintered milled framework, the size has been increased to compensate for prospective shrinkage (20%-25%) that occurs during final sintering.