Dandy manufactures the case.TrazaLab does not.

Category

A lab service is not lab software.

Dandy publishes a practice portal and their own manufacturing. That is a vertical lab. The clinic sends the case into a company that mills and ships. The independent laboratory is not the recipient.

TrazaLab publishes software for the laboratory that already exists. Odontogram, typed Rx, evidence, and the send gate stay on one case. TrazaLab does not mill, print, or fabricate. The case stays with the lab that bought the seat.

The 7 September 2026 review of meetdandy.com is the source for the captive-lab read. It is not a bake-off of unpublished features. Third-party cells in the matrix are what they published, or another category. A cell marked other category is not “they lack X.”

Laboratories that type “Dandy alternative” are usually defending volume, not shopping for a second factory. They already mill. They already have technicians. What they lack is a clinic send path that does not look older than the captive portal — and a packet the technician can read without reconstructing the Rx from a photograph.

This page will not say TrazaLab is that clone. Feature parity with a captive lab is an invented claim. The contrast that holds is ownership of the case.

Clinic

The portal the doctor uses is not the factory.

Clinics compare digital experiences. A captive lab sells a clean send path and keeps production. An independent lab that only offers WhatsApp and a scanner portal looks older than that path, even when the technician is better.

Lab Solo, on the published price list, includes a clinic portal, two lab users, one hundred cases a month, and fifty gigabytes. Lab Pro adds TrazaSTL, TrazaMordida, two hundred fifty gigabytes, and six hundred cases. Lab Network adds full branding, ten surgeon accounts at one hundred cases each, and ten TrazaLinks for clinics that stay outside the desk. Published monthly prices are 49, 99, and 199 USD.

That portal is still your laboratory. TrazaLab does not take the crown, the implant case, or the mill time. The doctor is not routed to a third manufacturing floor.

TrazaLink covers packet send when the clinic does not use the desk. It does not replace the typed Rx or the laboratory receipt gate. It is intake for the clinic that remains outside — not a second product and not a downloadable slip.

The laboratory pays the seat. That is the commercial fact that keeps the category honest. The doctor is not sending the case to someone else’s plant.

Typed Rx

Empty stays empty.

The Digital Rx is attached to the case: sites, work type, material, shade, margin, and clinical fields. It is not sold as “seven mandatory fields.” The validator and the send gate review contradictions. Some alerts warn. Some blocks stop the send.

An empty field can remain Not on Rx in the packet. The laboratory sees the absence. It does not invent the shade to make the ticket look finished.

A handwritten slip photographed into a captive portal is still a slip. The odontogram on the same case is what points at the tooth. FDI and Universal are represented. Adult, pediatric, and mixed dentition exist in the component. This page does not call that chart the most advanced odontogram, and it does not sell a shipping 3D enamel model.

The new-case assistant creates the Rx as part of the case. It is not a PDF taped on at the end. Implant components, when they apply, live on the same record. A verbal “use the other abutment” after the laboratory opened the version is the failure mode the packet is built to stop.

Work-authorization studies document omissions in marginal design, shade characterization, try-in need, and photographs. That literature explains why the empty field must stay visible. It does not authorize a remake-percentage claim for TrazaLab.

Evidence

Shade and margin are not a side message.

TrazaCaptura organizes capture with site and purpose. It stays on the same Rx. It does not certify that the photograph is clinically sufficient.

TrazaTono keeps a color reference for human confirmation. It does not replace a spectrophotometer. TrazaDetalle adds preparation and margin evidence. TrazaMordida organizes the occlusion record when the treatment requires it. TrazaVideo enters the same case when there is a clip.

The laboratory reviews that evidence. It does not guess shade from a message that already disappeared. A photo without a site is a file. A photo with site, purpose, and Rx is reviewable evidence.

A physical impression route can still keep delivery, components, and the evidence that travel with the model. The Rx and the odontogram stay on the same case. This page does not publish shipping tracking or a shop-floor barcode. Those belong to another software category.

Two gates

Accepting is a recorded decision.

Two human gates exist: the surgeon before send, and the laboratory on receipt. Validation walks five phases: Rx completeness, evidence present, scan quality, clinical rules, and remake risk. The first four decide readiness. The fifth is advisory.

The server recalculates completeness at the send boundary. It does not trust the browser state alone. That check finds missing or inconsistent required data. It does not confirm that the treatment is clinically correct.

The laboratory can accept a version or send the case back for more information. The next version does not silently overwrite the one already opened. High-risk acceptance, in the inspected implementation, requires a signature. The engine persists phase results, gaps, recommendations, and an audit trail.

That is not a live shop-floor tracker and not a promised push notification. It is a recorded accept or a recorded request. Professional judgment stays human.

TrazaChat

The thread belongs to the case.

TrazaChat is the case thread. It is not published as a Slack replacement or a WhatsApp bridge. The question about shade, scan body, or antagonist stays next to the packet that caused it.

A captive lab also has a portal conversation. The difference is the recipient. In TrazaLab the laboratory that fabricates is the laboratory that paid for the software.

Files are not supposed to live in that thread as a second inbox. STL, PLY, OBJ, ZIP, photos, and DICOM attach to the case. Recognition of an extension is classification, not a certified scanner integration.

When a design returns to the surgeon, approval, rejection, or annotation stay on the same case. When the treatment needs a try-in, clinical feedback stays there. After delivery, the clinic can confirm receipt. Each stage changes the next action without splitting the history that caused it.

One version

How the case moves without leaving the lab.

The clinic opens the new-case assistant. The Rx is born. Sites and work type are marked. Material, shade, and margin are recorded. Evidence attaches. If there is an export, the scanner package attaches. The surgeon confronts the Rx. A block stops the send until the same record is corrected.

The laboratory opens the version. It sees identity, treatment, site, odontogram, prescription, files, and instructions. If the bite is missing or shade has no reference, it asks on that requirement. It does not start a new thread under another patient name.

When the clinic answers, there is another version. The technician knows which one was opened first. On accept, design happens in the CAD the laboratory already runs. The Rx does not move into a modeler comment.

Scenes on this page are illustrative. They are not a real patient. They show the packet, not a fabrication result and not a turnaround promise.

CAD

Design stays in the lab you already run.

TrazaLab does not replace the CAD system. The technician opens the packet and designs where they already design. The Rx, the odontogram, and the evidence remain in TrazaLab so the intention of the doctor does not dissolve into a chat while the crown is modeled.

Dandy’s published model includes their own design and manufacturing. That is the category contrast. This page does not claim TrazaLab designs faster, cheaper, or with fewer remakes.

A remake cause can be recorded after the fact. Frequency and captured cost can be aggregated from those records. That history does not authorize a percentage reduction or a savings promise.

The mill, the printer, and the technician remain in the building that bought the seat. TrazaLab organizes the case around tools the laboratory already uses. It does not publish a connection to a named mill or a named printer.

The 7 September 2026 review

What the matrix is allowed to say.

The Spanish multi-vendor matrix at /comparativa-software-laboratorio-dental uses the same review date. Peer set confirmed for that page: TrazaLab, Guru, Seazona, Labtrac, EasyRx, Dandy, and Excel plus WhatsApp.

Dandy’s published category on that pass is captive lab: scan, design, and own manufacturing. TrazaLab prices on that pass are Lab Solo 49, Lab Pro 99, Lab Network 199. Those numbers are the published strip, not a promotional invention for this URL.

Blocked on that ledger, and blocked here: hours saved, faster versus a named competitor, remake percentage, an AI engine, and current claims about vendors that were not in the review.

Verify Dandy on their site. This page links meetdandy.com for that audit. It does not place a third-party call to action on their brand.