File sharing comparison for dental labs

Dental practices and dental labs exchange daily STL, DICOM, intraoral scan and CAD model files. The three most frequent solutions — links subject to expiry within seven days, the proprietor personal drive account, email attachments — function until it becomes necessary to retrieve the case of a patient from six months earlier. At that point the actual problem begins, since a lab is not performing a file transfer: it is producing a custom-made medical device, and MDR 2017/745 requires retention of the associated documentation for ten years.

Below is the precise comparison between ten widely used file sharing services and CadCamCloud. The difference does not concern price or gigabytes: it concerns category. A transfer service is designed to send a file to a recipient; a lab portal is designed to manage the entire lifecycle of an order, from submission to the immutable PDF/A archived for ten years. For DICOM files in particular — 3D radiographs containing patient-identifying data — CadCamCloud applies dedicated antivirus scanning and automatic quarantine, controls that generalist file-sharing services do not implement.