Walk into an advanced dental clinic in Munich, Manchester, or Melbourne, and the procedure unfolding in the chair may well have been designed thousands of miles away, in a studio in Shenzhen. Whilst patients recline under bright lights, a parallel digital workflow is quietly humming: intraoral scans travel across the internet, are processed by specialist software, and return as precise restorations ready for manufacture.

This is the world Mandy Cheung inhabits. A digital dental designer with thirteen years of experience at ZY Design Centre in Shenzhen, she sits at the intersection of advanced CAD/CAM technology and a global appetite for precision aesthetics. Her clients span a dozen countries across Europe and the Americas. We sat down with her to understand how this industry works, why Asia has led its adoption, and what holds back much of the world from embracing it fully.

Mandy Cheung

Digital Dental Designer ZY Design Centre, Shenzhen, China 13 years' experience