Over the past four decades, the digitalisation of dental practice has profoundly transformed oral care in the Asia-Pacific region. In the 1980s, early pioneers of digital dental technologies introduced CAD/CAM technology to clinical dentistry in Europe. By the 1990s, clinicians in leading Asia-Pacific markets such as Japan, South Korea and Australia began integrating these technologies into both academic and private practice dental settings. The emergence of additive manufacturing for dental applications in the early 2000s further expanded the capabilities offered by digital dentistry, and Asia-Pacific markets have been some of the fastest adopters of the technology globally. Today, the region’s dental market is entering a new phase of this evolution.