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Dental Applications
3D Systems Digital Dental Solutions This equipment supplier has established a separate web-site describing its involvement in dentistry. 3D's dedicated equipment is used to make wax-ups, working models, copings, crowns and bridges, partial denture frameworks, drill guides, direct metal dental parts, implants and in orthodontics. The company has a number of partners such as 3M and Dreve GmbH.

Align Technology, Inc. Rapid prototyping and reverse engineering are used in the InvisAlignTM process to make a series of essentially invisible orthodontic prostheses for straightening teeth.

Alpha Tec Ltd. The company supplies products for "virtual dentistry," including rapid prototyping .stl files of 40 types of teeth that can be fabricated locally and repeatedly on an RP machine so students can practice drilling.

Cynoprod The company supplies dental laboratories with equipment, software and technology. It manufactures metal-based dental prosthetics using laser sintering.

GeoDigm Corporation GeoDigm manufactures dental crowns, bridges and implants using an automated 3D scanning process and additive fabrication. The company's implants are also used in oral-maxillofacial surgery.

Lingual Technik (Germany) The company uses three dimensional scanning and rapid prototyping to fabricate orthodontic brackets and wires.

Dr. Steve Schmitt Dr. Schmitt can provide dental constructions using advanced digital methods which include RP technologies.

 

 


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