With Formlabs Digital Dentures, the 3D printing experts at Formlabs are expanding dental professionals’ access to digital dentures. Formlabs Digital Dentures is an cost-effective and efficient manufacturing solution. The company’s Denture Base Resin and Denture Teeth Resin are class IIa, long-term biocompatible resins that allow dentists and others in the profession to print 3D dentures reliably and accurately every time. If your practice is still operating in a traditional clinical environment, digital denture manufacturing will fit seamlessly into your existing work protocol, but investment at this stage will ensure that your practice or lab is also ready for purely digital workflows over time.
Employing dental design software and 3D printing to manufacture dentures offers a host of benefits from the outset:
Reduced production costs: With the highly affordable hardware, laboratories can expand production capacity without incurring substantial overhead costs.
High-quality, precise and consistent results: 3D printed prosthetics printed directly from scans decreases the number of steps involved in the process and offers less opportunity for variability. You create a more consistent workflow with a quality end product each time.
Adaptable, intuitive tools: The digital workflow seamlessly integrates into the traditional processes used today, and will be far easier for tomorrow’s digitally savvy dental lab technicians to learn.
Simplified, fast remakes: 3D printing means designs for digital dentures can be reused, shared, modified and reproduced with ease.
Genuinely customised teeth: Digital dentures are 100% patient-specific, unlike pre-manufactured denture cards.
Employing dental design software and 3D printing to manufacture dentures offers a host of benefits from the outset:
Reduced production costs: With the highly affordable hardware, laboratories can expand production capacity without incurring substantial overhead costs.
High-quality, precise and consistent results: 3D printed prosthetics printed directly from scans decreases the number of steps involved in the process and offers less opportunity for variability. You create a more consistent workflow with a quality end product each time.
Adaptable, intuitive tools: The digital workflow seamlessly integrates into the traditional processes used today, and will be far easier for tomorrow’s digitally savvy dental lab technicians to learn.
Simplified, fast remakes: 3D printing means designs for digital dentures can be reused, shared, modified and reproduced with ease.
Genuinely customised teeth: Digital dentures are 100% patient-specific, unlike pre-manufactured denture cards.
Digitalise your removables department, and your dental lab can develop further or expand its production outputs without need to pay out substantial overheads. Printing a full denture in Denture Base Resin and Denture Teeth Resin typically costs 80% less in terms of materials than producing a traditional denture with acrylic and denture cards.
Formlabs 3D printers make printing 3D dentures a more efficient, faster, and more reliable process. You will be able to maximise output and reduce labour costs by printing large builds overnight and smaller builds during the day. If your production needs increase or evolve, it’s easy to scale up without having to spend tens of thousands of pounds on each additional unit.
Dr. Bradley A. Purcell and Sam Wainwright illustrate the process using an actual clinical case and demonstrate the full digital denture workflow in this in-depth webinar.
Here, you will see each step along the way, beginning with a digitised patient model, right up to 3D printing a full denture on a Formlabs desktop stereolithography 3D printer.
