I 3D print a lot… and have been do so for years in my dental office. Why? First… it’s just fun, but, in reality, we are making things that solves and/or serves a need. In Dentistry, clinical necessity is the mother of development [i.e. invention]! We have the need to…
For many of us who have been involved with 3D printing for sometime, we’ve got the methods down. – design, export, import into printer software, mix resins, fill tank, click print, come back later, remove build-platform, remove resin from build-platform, clean platform, wash prints in alcohol, dry, UV cure. Post-processing…
You’ve seen the social media posts, the magazine articles, the publications, and the videos…. 3D printing anything and everything in dentistry. You’re thinking about it and think to yourself, “Wow, that’s cool! How do I get started with 3D printing?!?!?“ 3D printing is perfect for dentistry and dentistry is perfect…
I do a lot of implant dentistry and a big portion of that is digitally produced! There’s a certain amount of excitement surrounding creating something from scratch. Whether it’s baking a loaf of bread, making a bowl from clay, or fabricating a dental restoration… we are makers. Dentists can create…
If you’re at all like many of the dental practices and laboratories around the country, you’re either closed down or with greatly reduced hours. I don’t know about you but, frankly, I’m just not used to such idle time!! I’ve been wanting to stay busy, keeping moving forward and catching…
Right before COVID-19 broke out, I had a patient reach out to me asking me the question, “Doc, you said my implant is ready and I am concerned the coronavirus thing is going to be big… how fast can I get a tooth?” I felt his pain. He’s been waiting…
In this introductory article, we begin our digital journey!! Seemingly, dentists and laboratory technicians have been relegated to two options for getting into digital dentistry… 1) Buying the whole thing with 3Shape/Exocad/DentalWings software or 2) having to figure out things on our own with open-source software. Chances are you happened…