The oral industry is still in its infancy, and the disadvantages of traditional denture processing have become prominent:

One: labor costs continue to rise. The traditional denture processing process mainly relies on the personal skills and experience of dental technicians, which is a kind of labor-intensive work. The continuous rise of domestic human capital has greatly increased operating costs. In addition, it is difficult to train and retain dental technicians, and it is often difficult to find a job. 

Two: the delivery cycle is getting tighter and tighter. Medical institutions have tighter and tighter requirements for the delivery time of dentures and higher quality requirements. How to shorten the delivery time has become an important factor for denture processors to meet customer requirements and improve production efficiency.

Three: the production efficiency is low. Manufacturing denture metal inner crowns by traditional manual techniques requires more than 20 processes such as impression, wax-up, sprue installation, embedding, and lost wax. The manufacturing process is complicated. Once rework is required, labor costs and patient wait times increase significantly.

Four: It is in urgent need of advanced technology to establish a brand image. Denture processing belongs to the traditional handicraft industry. Technicians generally have relatively low educational background and quality, and the level of professional and technical education is not high. Generally, they grow up in the traditional teaching method of "master leads apprentices", and most enterprises are still in backward manual and semi-mechanized. Processing conditions, it is urgent to introduce advanced technology and equipment, establish a solid brand advantage and high market reputation, and improve the competitiveness of enterprises.

3D printing is the only way to realize digital oral medicine. At present, the commonly used 3D printing technologies in the dental industry mainly include photosensitive resin selective curing technology (SLA), selective laser melting technology (SLM), fused deposition modeling technology (FDM) and layered entity manufacturing technology (LOM). It is used in the manufacture of crowns, bridges, dental models and invisible aligners.

What are the benefits of 3D printed dentures?

Cost saving - The price of 1 kg of cobalt-chromium alloy powder is about 5,000 yuan. Taking the PioNext dental 3D printer equipment DJ-89 as an example, printing a denture probably requires a small amount of resin material. At the same time, it can also print more than one at a time. The denture 3D printer turns most of the traditional manual production processes into digital operations in front of the computer, effectively reducing labor costs.

Efficient and convenient - the patient only needs to do a "vertebral beam CT" after tooth extraction, and the technician can obtain the 3D root data, and then use the computer software to design, the dental 3D printer can use titanium alloy or zirconia to print the same as the real tooth. Identical dentures. The digital operation of 3D printing requires only 3-5 processes, which greatly shortens the denture production cycle.

Precise customization - The 3D printing treatment plan uses an oral scanning instrument to obtain the patient's oral data, analyzes the data through a computer, designs a treatment plan, and directly shapes the dentures with 3D printing, simple processing and then porcelain. The whole process is based on the accurate data of the patient, which improves the yield of dentures and makes it more comfortable for the patient to wear.

Improve the brand - dental 3D printing technology can improve the manufacturing form of the denture processing industry, to a certain extent, promote the production of dentures from labor-intensive to capital and knowledge-intensive, improve processes, improve efficiency, and enhance corporate brand image and market competitiveness , to promote industrial upgrading.

PioNext, a leading company in industrial 3D printing, attaches great importance to the transformation of oral digitization, and dental 3D printers actively promote the process of digitization. Rooted in the research and development of dental applications, it has formed a service system that integrates equipment, materials and applications. Its metal 3D printer DJ-89 has been successfully used in denture processing plants, creating huge economic benefits for customers.

As a provider of overall solutions for 3D printing of dentures in the industry, Shang PioNext has a sales, after-sales service and training team composed of elite technical personnel who have been engaged in the dental profession for many years, focusing on the application of innovative dental technology, and through continuous optimization, for The dental industry provides one-stop digital system solutions from oral scanning, model printing, crown printing, and materials.