Dental Insurance Plus – Technology, Rapid Prototyping Comes To Dentistry.
If instead of waiting days or even weeks for a dental cast to be produced, you could have your prosthetic dental implants, false teeth and replacement crowns made, by your dentist by quickly scanning your jaw and “print” your new teeth using a rapid prototyping machine known as a 3D printer? In Iran a Researcher explains how medical imaging coupled with computer-aided design could be used to create a perfect-fit blueprint for prosthetic dentistry. Such technology has been used in medical prosthetics before, but this would be an early step into prosthetic dentistry using rapid prototyping.
