We believe the value of dental technology belongs in the master labs. That is why DentalCube connects dental labs, starting in Germany and Sweden, with open prices from the start, verified colleagues and fair rules for everyone.
More than 30 years in dental technology: as a technician, in dental trade, as lab manager and 14 years with his own lab. Christian Penz has often seen a lab nearby with exactly the capacity that was missing. Instead, more and more jobs go to industrial milling centres. He wants to change that with DentalCube.
More about ChristianLabs should be free to choose their partners among colleagues. There are labs everywhere with spare capacity, with know‑how and exactly the technology you are missing right now. DentalCube brings these colleagues together.
Spare machine time becomes revenue, so investments in new technology and staff pay off.
Offer your clients everything without keeping every machine and material in-house.
If staff fall ill, hand individual jobs to colleagues, such as acrylic finishing, veneering, partial frameworks or splints. Keep your deadlines and take the pressure off your team.
You decide who produces your job: faster or cheaper, regional or across borders.
Dental technicians strengthen each other. Jobs stay among labs, if you wish only among independent labs.
Every offer states the total price including delivery. Every business is verified. No base fee, 0.99 % commission only when you win the job.
Sometimes you lack capacity, sometimes you have too much of it. On DentalCube you switch roles from job to job, with the same fair rules for everyone.
The same fair-play rules apply to both. Read the rules
Free and guided: choose the work and material, click the teeth in the dental chart, upload the data set, set the deadline and your target price.
Labs with spare capacity bid with a total price including delivery and a delivery date. Sort by price, delivery or rating.
Choose the bid that suits you. Only then can the lab carrying out the work download your data set.
The lab produces and ships, you confirm receipt. Then both labs rate each other.
Coming soon: the expert forum for labs. Solve difficult cases together, among colleagues.
Open prices from the start: labs posting a job state their target price. Labs that want it bid with price and delivery date. Registered labs see everything at a glance.
Fictional examples: lab names, jobs and prices are for illustration only.
No bid with this delivery time. Move the slider up.
As a contractor you keep a price list per type of work in your profile and bid with one click. You state delivery time and extras in each offer. Commission when awarded: 0.99%.
All prices net including delivery, no hidden costs. The order is placed directly between the labs involved.
From zirconia bridges to SLM model casts: jobs that labs hand to each other.
„Meine Fräse ist ausgelastet oder kann dieses Material nicht verarbeiten.“
„Mir fehlt die Technik oder die Erfahrung für Implantatarbeiten.“
„Ich brauche Technik, die sich für mich allein nicht lohnt.“
„Ich brauche kurzfristig Fräs- oder Druckkapazität.“
„Mir fehlen Material oder Maschine für Kunststoff.“
„Mir fehlen gerade Hände oder Zeit.“
For the exchange you only pay when a job is actually awarded, and only as the lab that takes it on. Premium is optional.
Create your lab profile and see the order exchange with all prices.
As the client you pay nothing to DentalCube.
Paid only by the contractor, calculated on the net production price excluding delivery. No award, no cost.
Example: a job worth €170 net (production, excluding delivery) costs the contractor €1.68 commission plus VAT.
Commission plus statutory VAT, calculated on the net production price. No commission is charged on delivery costs.
Optional: Premium with calculation tool, job alert, analytics and highlighted profile for €29 net per month, cancellable at the end of each month.
Master dental technician, founder of DentalCube
“If you can choose freely, you can decide freely.”
Since his journeyman’s exam in 1995, Christian Penz has seen dental technology from every angle: first as a technician, then as lab manager in Kiel and, from 2007, with his own lab, Zahnwerk in Husum, Germany. In 2013 he passed his master’s exam. Most recently, until 2025, he was a partner in and manager of a lab in Flensburg.
Over all these years he has experienced the typical bottlenecks first-hand: order peaks, machine breakdowns, missing staff or materials. Yet there is almost always a lab nearby with exactly the capacity that is missing. Instead, more and more milling and laser melting work is moving to large industrial milling centres. Labs become dependent, and the value leaves the craft.
Christian wants to change that with DentalCube. Dental technicians should strengthen each other: labs choose their partners freely among colleagues, hand work over when things get tight and take on orders when their machines are free. That keeps the value where it belongs: in the master labs.
Yes. Register your lab for free. We check every registration and get back to you. During the test phase selected labs already work with the platform; everyone else joins at launch.
Registering and posting jobs is free. Only the lab that takes on a job pays a commission of 0.99% (plus VAT) of the net production price when the job is awarded; no commission is charged on delivery costs. There is no annual fee and no base fee. You can optionally book Premium for €29 net per month.
Commercial dental labs, milling centres and dental practices from Germany and Sweden, acting as businesses. Any activated business can award work. Only laboratories can take on jobs, and only with approval as a manufacturer of custom-made devices: in Germany, labs confirm the MDR declaration. Dental practices, including those with an in-house lab or within a medical care centre (MVZ), only award work. In Sweden, registration with the Läkemedelsverket is required. Lab groups and milling centres are labelled. Further countries are to follow.
Yes. During the first 10 minutes after posting at any time, including "Correct and repost": all details and the data set are carried over. After that you can cancel as long as there is no bid yet. If bids have already come in, cancelling is only possible with a reason, for example if the patient has cancelled. The labs that have already calculated can see your reason.
Under “Mein Profil” (my profile) you store your prices per type of work and material, optionally with a base price, delivery costs and delivery time. On a matching job you immediately see your ready bid and take it over with one click. Other labs cannot see your price list.
Yes. Mark labs as regular partners. When posting you choose whether the job is shown only to your regular partners for 2 to 24 hours first. After that it goes to the open exchange automatically.
Premium adds the calculation tool, the job alert, personal analytics and a highlighted profile to the free exchange. Your calculation data stays on your device or encrypted in your vault; DentalCube cannot read it. Premium never changes the order of bids.
The database and data sets are stored in Ireland, and the platform’s server functions run in Dublin. The public pages of the website are delivered via our hosting provider’s worldwide delivery network. Data sets travel directly between your browser and the storage in Ireland and are deleted 30 days after the job is completed. Some service providers are based in the USA; details are in the privacy policy.
Registration is free. We check every registration and activate your lab.