RPD Rx is a digital workspace for designing removable partial denture prescriptions — no software to download, no surveying rig to buy. Survey the model and build your design yourself, right in your browser. Export a professional PDF and send it with your existing laboratory workflow. Design with confidence. Communicate with clarity.
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RPD Rx helps you create clear, professional prescriptions that fit naturally into your existing digital workflow. Design your case, generate a PDF and send it to your laboratory alongside your usual case information.
Build your RPD framework on an interactive design canvas. Add rests, clasps, connectors and other components to clearly communicate your intended design.
Export a clear, structured prescription PDF containing your design, annotations and clinical instructions, ready to accompany your laboratory prescription.
Send your PDF alongside STL files, scans or laboratory forms using your usual workflow, helping your technician understand your design from the outset.
RPD Rx puts the surveyor in your hands — you identify the undercuts, choose the path of insertion, and decide on the specific framework you want for your patient. No dedicated surveyor, no CAD suite, no IT install: it all runs in the browser tab you're reading this in.
Import your intraoral scan directly into the surveyor and adjust the Path of Insertion in real time, right there in the consultation room, before you commit to a design.
Colour-coded raycasted shadows highlight undercuts on the model at your chosen path of insertion, so you can see exactly where on the remaining dentition to engage with retentive clasps, before you design.
Your chosen undercut coordinates carry straight into the design canvas as a starting point; the clasp positions, connectors and rests are your clinical call.
There's no CAD software to license, no surveying rig to buy, and no IT setup. The surveyor and the design canvas both run in your browser — open a tab and you're surveying.
Surveyed in-clinic
Your Scan, Your Survey, Your Design
"By putting RPD design back at the heart of clinician-technician communication, we uphold the highest standards of RPD treatment planning by eliminating ambiguity."
Choose the workflow that fits your case requirements.
Import your IOS .stl file, survey the 3D model, map undercuts, and hit "Send to Designer". Your undercut coordinates transfer automatically into the Design canvas to begin your framework plan. No plugin or software install required — it runs entirely in your browser.
Bypass 3D model orientation & go straight to the interactive design canvas to draw components, write lab notes, and download your PDF prescription.
Select the subscription tier aligned to your practice setup.
Ideal for practices taking physical impressions and sending direct prescription orders to labs.
· Cancel anytime · Unlimited PDFs
Complete integrated suite for practices using Intraoral Scanners (Medit, iTero, Trios, etc).
· Full 3D + 2D Integrated Suite
Help shape the future of digital RPD Rx prescription workflows. In exchange for completing periodic clinical review questionnaires, up to 10 founding practices receive full, free access to the RPD Rx Pro suite for the duration of the evaluation.
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Answers to some of the questions we’re asked most often.
RPD Rx allows you to survey the digital model at the chairside, allowing you to visually inspect the location and position of useable undercuts. Then, you can feed the undercut coordinates directly into your design canvas as a starting point. Clasp positions, connectors and rests remain your clinical decision, giving you full creative and clinical control.
No. RPD Rx is entirely browser-based — both the 3D surveyor and the 2D design canvas run directly in your web browser, with nothing to download or install and no dedicated surveying hardware to buy. Just sign in, import your IOS scan, and you can survey and design chairside on the computer you already have.
Yes. Patient information stays on your own device and is not uploaded to our servers. Prescription PDFs are generated in your browser, helping you keep patient data private and supporting GDPR compliance.
Yes. There are no long-term contracts. You can change or cancel your subscription at any time through the Stripe customer portal. You'll continue to have access until the end of your current billing period.
Yes. The prescribing clinician remains responsible for the design of the removable partial denture. RPD Rx helps you clearly record your design decisions and produces a detailed PDF prescription that can be shared with your laboratory.
Yes. You can import STL files into the Survey & Design workspace, establish the path of insertion and identify undercuts. Your PDF prescription can then be sent with your STL files through systems such as 3Shape Communicate, Medit Link, iTero or by email.
Yes. You can bypass they Survey stage and jump straight into the Design workspace. Your PDF prescription can then either be printed and sent with your impressions, or you can email it directly to append to the case. We recommend printing in this case, to keep the PDF and standard lab ticket together.
Yes. Step 1 includes an Immediate Extraction mode, allowing you to mark teeth planned for extraction. These teeth are clearly highlighted on the final prescription so the laboratory knows exactly how to prepare the case.
Yes! RPD Rx Direct and Pro are "per practice" licenses. Multiple team members can access the workspace, and you can easily select or update the individual prescribing clinician's name and GDC number on each prescription before PDF export.
RPD Rx supports cobalt-chromium, titanium, acrylic and flexible removable partial dentures. You can add rests, clasps, connectors, meshwork and other common framework components using the built-in design tools.
Clinical Prescription Architecture
RPD Rx is a diagnostic-driven digital prescription workspace engineered specifically to bridge the communication gap between dental practices and dental laboratories.
By digitising the Davenport design protocol, RPD Rx eliminates chairside friction, prevents ambiguous lab prescriptions, and compiles compliant vector PDF work authorizations instantly inside client-side execution threads.
Developed by Chet Geisel, Senior Lecturer and Programme Director for Dental Technology at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Combining decades of technical prosthodontic expertise with digital web architecture, RPD Rx enforces strict structural mechanics and biological support rules to elevate clinical treatment planning standards.
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What participation involves: your practice receives free access to the full RPD Rx Pro suite. In return, you agree to complete periodic short review questionnaires about your clinical experience using the software. You must have access to an intraoral scanner and regularly send cases to your laboratory partner via the native or cloud sharing facility.
Data use: anonymised responses may be used to inform product development.
Your rights: participation is voluntary and you may withdraw from the programme at any time without affecting your ability to use the software you've already been provided.