Growth Trend And Industrial Upgrade Of China’s Digital Dental Prosthetics (H1 2026)

China's dental prosthetic industry has entered a high-speed digital transformation cycle in the first half of 2026, with domestic dental processing labs achieving a remarkable year-on-year growth of over 29% in digital denture cases. The substantial growth rate marks the comprehensive penetration of CAD/CAM digital design and intelligent manufacturing technology in China's prosthodontic processing industry. Traditional manual carving and casting processes are being rapidly phased out, while standardized, high-precision, fast-cycle digital production modes have become the mainstream development trend. Benefiting from the dual driving forces of domestic clinical consumption upgrading and booming global dental export demand, local dental enterprises are actively promoting full-process digital upgrading from scanning, design and machining to post-processing, continuously improving the overall qualification rate and product consistency of domestic dental prosthetics.

In the current global dental OEM market, three types of digital dental products have become core high-demand mainstream items for Chinese manufacturers, including CAD/CAM milled PMMA temporary bridges, flexible partial dentures with invisible aesthetic clasps, and customized therapeutic dental night guards. CAD/CAM milled PMMA temporary bridges are widely used for implant transitional restoration and fixed abutment protection due to their precise fitting, stable occlusion and excellent aesthetic performance. Flexible partial dentures cater to patients' high requirements for comfort and invisible restoration, replacing bulky traditional acrylic dentures. Custom night guards focus on oral protection and bruxism treatment, enjoying stable overseas market demand. These digital customized products feature standardized quality, personalized fitting, ultra-short production cycles and high cost performance, dominating domestic clinical procurement and overseas customized export orders.

While digital manufacturing technology is rapidly popularizing, China's dental material industry has also achieved landmark technological breakthroughs, realizing full-scale import substitution of core PMMA dental resin materials. For a long time, the domestic high-end dental prosthetic industry relied heavily on imported resin raw materials, resulting in high production costs and weak export competitiveness. The independent research and mass production of localized high-precision PMMA dental resin materials completely break the overseas technical monopoly. With qualified biocompatibility, stable shading performance and excellent machinability, domestic resin materials fully meet the production standards of temporary bridges, denture bases and various digital restorations. The independent supply of core materials effectively reduces the overall production cost of digital dental prosthetics, greatly enhances the price advantage and comprehensive competitiveness of China's dental export products, and further accelerates the international market layout and global brand influence upgrading of domestic digital dental processing enterprises.