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Printing Services for Appliances

Printing Splints

3D printing is simplifying manufacturing in the dental industry with its flexibility, speed, and digital end-to-end process. Practitioners that want to provide more positive experiences for patients should consider 3D printing as a primary method to produce dental appliances. When practitioners and labs use modern 3D printing technologies and advanced resins, occlusal splints and other dental appliances can be produced with higher quality and greater accuracy.

Printing TMJ devices is very easy with Dane Dental Lab. All of your office preferences are charted and kept on file so your appliances are fabricated in the same method every time. Digital printing often means a quicker turn around time. Increased accuracy means less time your patients are in the chair.
Key reasons to consider digital appliances:

Accuracy and Production Speed

Dane Dental Lab® can produce a 3D-printed splint directly from a digital scan with high accuracy. These results mean 3D printing can reduce the adjustments needed in office. 3D production time is often shorter than analog production.

Material Benefits

Advanced 3D printing solutions provide a suite of materials, including a line of FDA-qualified dental resins. Dane Dental Lab prides itself on using the latest FDA approved materials on the market.

Easy to Replace

When a customized dental appliance like an occlusal splint is lost or broken, it can be costly and time-consuming to replace if it is made manually. With 3D printing, a digital splint for a patient can be immediately sent to the 3D printer for rapid, on-demand production. Dane Dental Lab’s 3D printers can produce a replacement splint quickly providing same-day service for patients if necessary.

Laser Sintered Appliances

Today, 3D metal printing of metallic orthodontic appliances is at the forefront of the digitalization movement.The greatest advantage of direct metal printing is the customization. Dane Dental Lab is transforming the fabrication of dental and orthodontic appliances through the utilization of 3D printing.

DMP (direct metal printing), also known as Additive Manufacturing, uses a laser melting device and a powdered cobalt-chromium metal alloy. 

Traditional bands require separation which means  associated chair time and scheduling for the patient. This component of the banding workflow can be eliminated with laser sintering if a band does not require access to interproximal areas. A further challenge is introduced when a technician has to retrofit bands on a model. Traditional bands interact with interproximal areas, but also regularly proceed subgingivally. Both requirements force a laboratory technician to modify areas of a model that are obscured to them. This creates potential error and leads to seating and fit issues. The overall quality of an appliance with sintered components is superior to traditionally banded devices.

Digital appliance design is the future of lab work with laser sintering being the future of metal orthodontic appliances. Dane Dental Lab prides ourselves on being in the forefront of this new and upcoming technology.