With the development of 3D printing technology, the application of 3D printing technology has become more and more widespread, in which the application in the medical field has become more and more popular. At present, many dental clinics and denture processing clinics have introduced 3D printing technology, the use of 3D printing technology can help dental clinics and denture processing clinics to quickly realize efficient and low-cost digital dental production. Here is the application of 3D printing in the dental field.
First, the application of dental restoration
Traditional denture processing mainly relies on the personal skills and experience of dental technicians, which is a kind of labor-intensive work, very much dependent on the experience of the technicians, and the work process is complicated, low productivity, and will often be reworked dental molds. The use of 3D printing technology, can be printed directly through the 3D printer dental mold, based on the dental mold and the production of dental products with a small error is also relatively close to reduce the manual polishing products bite poorly and need to rework the problem of many times, to avoid rework caused by a variety of waste.
Desktop-level 3D printers such as the one launched by Hegel Technology some time ago can help dental laboratories realize efficient digital mass production. Doctors can design and produce their own dental products, such as dentures, easily and efficiently. Through the oral scanner to accurately obtain the patient's oral data, with the clinic's existing equipment, through the remote real-time transmission to the denture processing center for data analysis, denture processing center through the analysis and software design and layout of the data back to the clinic, the doctor can be imported into the desktop 3D printer to produce the corresponding dental products. Patients can spend as little as 1-2 hours at a clinic to get certain dental products customized according to the patient's oral characteristics and use them on the spot.
Second, the application of dental implants
The previous dental implant process, the doctor will first open the gums, in the alveolar bone to play a fixed denture with the "threaded nails", and then cut open the gums, in the "threaded nails" on the installation of dentures. "The whole process relies on the dentist's experience and judgment, and lasts a long time, the patient is more traumatic. After the use of 3D printing technology, the doctor will first give the patient an oral scan, and then design can be adapted to the patient's dental parts of the implant surgical guide, the use of digital software, detailed measurements of the patient's dental bed of bone density, alveolar bone and other conditions, the design of the best implantation point, which greatly improves the safety of the operation, so that the operation is more accurate and reduces the difficulty of the implantation of dental implants surgery.