Evident has announced a new integration with XDENT LAB, a Vietnam-based dental lab that provides full-service lab-to-lab fabrication. The partnership enables dental labs using Evident’s CAD design services to order fabrication directly from XDENT LAB through the EviSmart CAD design portal. This integration supports labs in expanding their outsourcing networks while maintaining oversight, consistency, and turnaround expectations.
Many U.S.-based dental labs with outsource partners located in China have faced increasing challenges. Extended turnaround times, variability in case quality, and added costs from U.S.–China tariffs have introduced operational uncertainty. These pressures have led labs to reconsider their outsourcing strategies and explore alternative fabrication partners that can offer more stability.
With XDENT LAB now available through the EviSmart CAD Hub, labs gain direct access to a full-service fabrication partner—without the need to manage separate systems or communication channels. This integration allows labs to submit cases for both design and fabrication within a unified platform, improving visibility and continuity throughout the workflow.
By consolidating processes in one system, labs reduce administrative overhead and benefit from shared case information, centralized support, and fewer handoffs.
Diversifying fabrication partnerships has become a key consideration for labs focused on long-term continuity and quality. This integration gives labs more control in allocating cases based on timing, geography, and production needs—while maintaining clinical standards.
“Labs are increasingly aware of the need to diversify their outsourcing channels,” said Paolo Kalaw, CEO of Evident. “This partnership gives labs access to a proven global fabrication partner within the same system they already use for design—eliminating fragmentation and helping them build more resilient operations.”
XDENT LAB is a leading outsourcing partner providing lab-to-lab solutions and full-service support for dental laboratories across the U.S. Their signature strength lies in Removables, where they are trusted for consistent quality, scalable production capacity, and an exceptionally low remake rate—ensuring peace of mind throughout the dental supply chain. As a strategic partner, XDENT LAB empowers dental labs to expand production, streamline operations, and elevate workflow quality. With the advantage of a highly scalable workforce and a strong labor market, they offer rapid adaptability and reliable production growth at scale.
Evident is committed to advancing digital dentistry by providing AI-driven solutions that address the key challenges faced by dental labs, dentists, and manufacturers. The EviSmart platform, which includes EviSmart QC, EviSmart Nest, EviSmart Downloader, and other cutting-edge tools, is designed to streamline operations, improve accuracy, and enhance collaboration across the dental ecosystem. By optimizing workflows and improving the flow of data between providers, EviSmart helps deliver top-quality results efficiently and effectively.
Designs you order from EviSmart arrive in your Oqcam already formatted. Named the way your nesting rules expect, with shade and material attached, and pointed at the machine that case belongs on.
The routing is decided per case. An implant case sends the crown to the mill and puck you cut implant crowns on, and the model to the printer you print models on. Different case types, different machines, chosen automatically rather than by a tech working through a dropdown for every file.
The trigger is QC approval. EviSmart designs your cases your way. The same team works on all your cases and learns what a good case looks like to you. Once your case passes our QC, it triggers a greenlight to send the design directly into your Oqcam account in under a minute.
Once the file arrives in your Oqcam, all your CAD/CAM technicians can review the nested design before starting the mill. That final QC step does not change and is not meant to.
Setup is one session. We connect your Oqcam account and agree where each of your products should go, using the routes and materials you have already built there. Nothing new to create, and you only revisit it if something changes.
Automatic sending only works if you trust what is being sent. Once a case is nested it gets cut, and a design that was not right is wasted material.
You choose what flows. During setup we map only the case types you want moving on their own. Anything unmapped never sends. It waits for you exactly as it does today.
Most labs start narrow. Bread and butter work first, night guards and posterior single units, then widen once they have watched it run for a few weeks. The lab that has been live longest started exactly there and has added case types since.
Your approval stays. This removes the file shuffling between design and CAM. It does not remove your eyes from the build.
For labs outsourcing design work the math gets compelling somewhere north of 30 cases a day into nesting, because that is where the handoff stops being an annoyance and starts being a role.
Not touchless design. Touchless handoff. Every step in that chain that requires judgment should keep requiring judgment, and every step that never did should stop requiring a person.
Nesting requires judgment. Confirming a build requires judgment. Renaming a file so software can read it does not, and never did. It was a workaround that quietly became somebody's job.
Nobody pays you to rename files.
