Major Advantages Of Adopting Dental 3d Printing Platform

3D dental printing comes with a huge number of advantages. Here we will discuss a few of them to give you a better understanding of how dental 3D printing platform have evolved in our lives.

Mass Customization

One of the archetypes of 3D printing mass customization in healthcare is perhaps the dental aligners industry. Align Technology is the company bringing this concept to life with the commercial success of the “unicorn”. More than a million dental aligners can be manufactured every day using a process that uses 3D printing, according to research. Each of these aligners is a unique device for an individual treatment plan. The aligner industry is doing well today and is alive with more and more competitive companies offering consumers cheaper, faster and easier solutions. However, this is not possible without the fundamental advantage of being able to 3D print many unique geometries simultaneously without large initial capital expenditures.

More importantly, competing with many traditional manufacturing processes, injection molding and digital subtractive manufacturing processes in dentistry, 3D printing offers consistently accurate, efficient, cheaper and often better alternatives. In the case of supremacy, as in aligner manufacturing, 3D printing takes over other processes and transforms the profession on a larger scale.

Complexity

When it comes to this concept of “complexity for free”, many immediately recall their memory of a 3D printed gyroid grid, which is almost impossible to manufacture without significant cost and cannot be mass-produced. Since we are all unique creatures, this feature is extremely valuable in healthcare as personalization is often desired. The unmet need to be able to massively create customized medical devices at no additional cost is obvious to many. This is no exception in dentistry, as the anatomy of everyone’s teeth is unique.

Freedom of Design

This advantage is related to the concept of “complexity free”. With AM’s ability to produce a larger portfolio of complex geometries, medical and dental device designers can naturally be more creative. This resonates with many health care providers who are often faced with unique patient issues but without readily available solutions. According to the researcher, several creative workflows using Ortog Blender, the Blender plug-in software is primarily intended to allow dentists to plan orthognathic surgery, but also to create a guide for indirect orthodontic bonding in a resource-poor country like Brazil, where people do not have access to more advanced healthcare. This kind of end-user and need-based 3D printing solution that puts a “designer” hat on healthcare providers will shorten the innovation cycle of healthcare devices.

With new tools, new solutions will be created in geographies and patient populations that have not been specifically addressed before due to socioeconomic or simply technical barriers. Some of these innovations will be equivalent to existing solutions, but more will be adopted because they are better than existing solutions. Such revolutions have been seen in the aligner and hearing aid industry for decades, where the 3D printing process has replaced old manufacturing techniques and changed the lives of patients.