UK-based Stratasys reseller SYS Methods has reported a 350% surge in gross sales within the dental market in comparison with final yr.
In response to SYS, it’s working with an rising variety of clinics and laboratories throughout the UK to put in Stratasys J5 DentaJet printers for the manufacturing of functions like dentures. 3D printed dentures, the reseller says, ship ‘unrivalled aesthetics and useful ends in half the manufacturing time.’
Stratasys’ J5 DentaJet machine is suitable with the patented TrueDent CE-marked resin that’s mentioned to boast sturdiness and a capability to print a number of tooth and base shades concurrently in a single full-colour, monolithic construction.
Putting in machines at a price of 1 each two weeks, SYS Methods believes it might be the main distributor in Europe for the J5 DentaJet system.
“Additive manufacturing is revolutionising the way in which we make issues, and the dental market is the newest to modify on to the advantages,” mentioned Matt Fulton, Managing Director of SYS Methods. “It’s an actual win-win for dentists and labs. The 3D printed prosthetics are versatile, extremely sturdy and ship the very best aesthetics – all achieved in half the time it takes in comparison with the standard route. Stratasys’ J5 DentaJet is probably the most superior printer on this house and, whenever you mix it with the TrueDentTM resin, it’s not a shock that demand is hovering within the UK and Eire. In actual fact, I feel we’re main the way in which with regards to gross sales of this machine in Europe.”
Prime Dental Laboratory was one of many early adopters of the J5 DentaJet system and TrueDent materials, with the corporate producing a few of the first J5 DentaJet in partnership with SYS Methods. The corporate says the adoption of 3D printing has had a ‘profound impression on each scientific outcomes and productiveness.’
Co-owner and Medical Dental Technician Tim Jackson mentioned: “From the beginning of my profession, I labored fully analogue, and I’d set all the things up by hand. In newer years, now we have invested closely into the digital facet of dentistry and have seen an enormous change with dentists wanting to make use of it as nicely. Digital dentures have generally been somewhat brittle prior to now – not this TrueDentTM materials, which I imagine is the very best printer resin in the marketplace, surpassing all the things I might have imagined strength-wise, in addition to aesthetics. For instance, we’ve thrown it down the hall and even stomped on it and it’s unbreakable.
“Velocity has additionally been necessary. Creating utilizing an analogue methodology, we discovered that 18 dentures would take us round 12 hours to make. Doing the identical course of digitally, we went all the way down to about six hours, and – now we have got the J5 DentaJet™ – we will knock one other hour off that simply on post-processing these dentures as nicely.”
