Trusted Global Leaders in Dental 3D Printing and Software Join Forces to Ease Adoption of Quality Digital Dentures
February 19 2018 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
- EnvisionTEC was the first to market
with a complete 3D printed digital denture solution
- AvaDent is the leader in easy-to-use
software and design services for digital dentures
- More than 40% of all dentures are
estimated to be created digitally by 2024
EnvisionTEC, the global leader in dental 3D printers and
materials, and AvaDent Digital Dental Solutions, the global leader
in digital dentures, today announced a new partnership.
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EnvisionTEC, the global leader in dental
3D printing technology, and AvaDent, the global leader in digital
dentures, have announced a collaboration to provide dental
professionals with an easy-to-use digital workflow solution for 3D
printed dentures. (Photo: Business Wire)
Working together, the two companies now offer a complete digital
workflow solution for digital dentures, from impressions and
digital design to try-in and final restoration.
A provider of high-accuracy dental 3D printers since 2008,
EnvisionTEC launched the first FDA-approved full denture solution
for 3D printing in 2017. AvaDent, meanwhile, offers easy-to-use
digital denture software and design services to dental
professionals, so prosthetics can be quickly manufactured through
milling or 3D printing, with more than 100,000 dentures
created.
“While 3D printing a full denture on our 3D printers is easy,
digitally designing a denture can be complicated. That’s why we’re
so excited to work with AvaDent, which offers easy-to-use software
and delivers a tested workflow to labs and dentists,” said
EnvisionTEC CEO Al Siblani.
“We see an immediate opportunity for labs and clinicians to
begin 3D printing try-in dentures and final restorations, alongside
the many other dental applications offered by 3D printers,” added
Jan Slor, VP and General Manager of Global Dental Science LLC,
which owns Avadent.
EnvisionTEC’s FDA-approved E-Denture pink base material and
E-Dent 100 and 400 materials that simulate teeth in a variety of
shades means laboratories and dentists can now 3D print lifelike
dentures with a custom, digital fit directly in their office. When
used on a versatile EnvisionTEC Vida desktop 3D printer, dentists
can also directly print crowns, bridges, bite splints, gingiva
masks and castables.
AvaDent offers a suite of digital denture services including
base plates, bonded dentures, monolithic dentures, hybrid dentures,
overdentures, pucks and print files. Customers can scan impressions
and send the scan files to the company, which designs a digital
denture with proprietary Computer Aided Engineering technology and
sends the design file to the customer. Dentists and labs can do the
manufacturing of the prosthesis on their own mills or 3D printers —
or outsource that work to AvaDent.
The new collaboration will be on display this week at LMT Lab
Day Chicago 2018, where the companies will be exhibiting and
working together to educate labs, dentists and patients on the
benefits of digital dentures, which are regarded as the most
difficult dental prosthetic to manufacture because of complex fit,
bite and aesthetic requirements.
Digital dentures also offer unique benefits. For example, if a
digital denture is lost it can easily be recreated within a couple
of days using the digital file that was created and stored. AvaDent
estimates that more than 40% of new dentures will be made digitally
by 2024, with an increasing number being produced directly on 3D
printers rather than mills. It is estimated that more than
two-third of dental labs already use a 3D printer in their
manufacturing processes.
In celebration of their new relationship, EnvisionTEC and
AvaDent will be offering a Digital Denture special at LMT Lab Day
Chicago that includes significant discounts on an EnvisionTEC Vida
and AvaDent software packages. EnvisionTEC is located in booths
A-43 and B-42, while AvaDent is located in A-5.
About EnvisionTEC
EnvisionTEC is a leading global provider of professional-grade
3D printing solutions. Founded in 2002 with its pioneering
commercial DLP printing technology, EnvisionTEC now sells more than
40 printers based on six distinct technologies that build objects
from digital design files. The company’s premium 3D printers serve
a variety of medical, professional and industrial markets, and are
valued for precision, surface quality, functionality and speed.
EnvisionTEC’s intellectual property includes more than 140 pending
and granted patents. Learn more at EnvisionTEC.com.
About AvaDent
AvaDent Digital Dental Solutions, whose product line includes
AvaDent Digital Dentures, is owned by Global Dental Science LLC
(GDS), a dental innovations company dedicated to improving dental
procedures and outcomes through Process Automation. GDS world
headquarters is located at 15730 North 83rd Way, Scottsdale, AZ
85260. For additional information call 855-AVADENT (282-3368) or go
to www.avadent.com
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