Can medical 3D printing produce customized stop snoring devices?
Medical 3D printing can produce customized anti-snoring devices. The principle is based on customized braces design, as an example, some clinics applying digital diagnosis and treatment, first need to obtain intraoral data through digital oral scanning, and then use high-precision 3D equipment to print and produce a model of the patient's teeth, and then through high-temperature vacuum compression molding, to get the braces to fit the teeth of the oral cavity. The upper and lower jaw braces are connected by memory metal springs, which mimic the temporomandibular joints of the human mouth and conform to ergonomics, combining to form a "customized anti-snoring device". After wearing the anti-snoring device, the mouth can move freely, and the memory metal material ensures that the spring will not be deformed in repeated oral activities. When wearing the anti-snoring device, the lower jaw pulls the tongue and the tissues near the throat to stretch forward, the airway expands, and the snoring can be eliminated by smooth breathing, thus also playing the therapeutic effect of stopping snoring. Like the black grid technology has a such customized stop snoring device products, through high-precision 3D printing equipment to produce a precise fit to the patient's oral cavity of the stop snoring device, won the European Union invention patent, the treatment of stop snoring has a better effect, so that medical 3D printing can be customized to stop snoring device.