Designed to assist dental laboratories streamline their workflows and remove the necessity to bond tooth to the gingiva when producing dental home equipment, UK supplier of Stratasys 3D printing options, Tri-Tech 3D is making TrueDent accessible to its prospects.
The brand new resin is designed particularly for the 3D printing of full monolithic everlasting dentures, short-term crowns and bridges. The “first materials of its sort”, TrueDent permits the batch manufacturing of extremely aesthetic, multi-colour dental home equipment on a single combined half, high-capacity tray.
TrueDent is a patented FDA-cleared (Class II) light-curable resin, which is designed for use completely at the side of the Stratasys J5 DentaJet 3D printer. This system permits dental laboratories to make use of completely different supplies in a single job, to create full color, affected person particular home equipment.
Proprietary PolyJet multi-material expertise means TrueDent can produce pure trying gums and mimic tooth construction with optimum translucency in varied shades. Which means, not like with different supplies, dental laboratories create full color dentures in a single steady print, avoiding the necessity to print the denture base and tooth individually.
TrueDent is appropriate with any open STL file, which avoids the necessity to put money into devoted software program. TrueDent comes as a complete group of colors, together with TrueDent Yellow, TrueDent White, TrueDent Magenta and TrueDent Cyan. The printer mixes these through the print course of to realize the colors required for a totally monolithic denture.
“Beforehand, even with probably the most refined 3D printer, dental labs would want to print the arch and gingiva individually, earlier than bonding and sprucing them,” defined Amish Jani, gross sales specialist at Tri-Tech 3D. “This rapidly turned a protracted, expensive course of for many laboratories. TrueDent is the primary and solely full color resin set in the marketplace, which makes it an incredible materials alternative for dental labs which might be utilizing the J5 DentaJet. Mixed with this dental-specific AM system, TrueDent permits dental labs to print as much as 34 customized dentures in a single construct — one thing that was beforehand unimaginable.”
“TrueDent is one in every of a form and a strong instrument in dental labs’ armoury,” defined Anthony Gillitt, nationwide gross sales supervisor for dental UK and Eire at Stratasys. “Having the ability to produce entire dentures and different practical home equipment in a single construct eliminates the necessity for bonding, which removes delay and may shorten lead occasions. We stay up for seeing it adopted extra broadly.”