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I'll admit, I've been somewhat obsessed with ti-bases.... especially angle screw channels! As a result, I haven't had a huge reason to want to mill my own custom titanium abutments because ti-bases rock and work very well. That being said, there is a time and place within my practice and laboratory …
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As the dental field continues to adopt in-office desktop style 3D printers there has become an increasing demand to produce in-office clear aligners. For many clinicians intraoral optical scanning and 3D printing has become an integrated workflow for restorative dentistry. Now with advancements in …
[Read more...] about Overview of Software Options for In-Office Clear Aligners
When working with clear aligners one of the most challenging tasks with aligner delivery can be teaching the patient how to place and remove the aligners. Patients can often become easily frustrated with placing and removing aligners as the retentive aligners can give a challenge to patients that …
Practicing in rural California I am consistently approached by patients in my practice who state, "Doctor, that permanent option sounds great but I just don't have the money for something that fancy." This often comes up during treatment planning discussion and case review and I totally get it. …
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I've been 3D printing for a while now and printing failures used to be a big problem with some of the earlier desktop grade 3D printers. Today, the software and hardware platforms are synced well enough that it can properly analyze STL files and make sure they're ready for the printing process.While …
[Read more...] about That Print Failure Wasn’t the Printer’s Fault – How I Fixed It!
