Crowned with Success
Digital dentistry is being rapidly adopted, propelled by a combination of continuously increased CAD/CAM productivity and advanced 3D printing capabilities. ScanSystems brings dental labs a whole realm of new opportunities for increasing their productivity and expanding their customer base using Objet’s 3D Printing Systems.
The Challenge
ScanSystems offers the market a technology-leading dental scanner for 3D scanning of gypsum models. The solution is based upon a whole new workflow approach that enables labs to virtually prepare teeth and design temporaries directly from scans of conventional models, completely omitting the need for a physical model. Labs can now provide dentists with cost-effective temporaries and more easily secure the follow-on order of the final crown.
Adaptation of digital methods is increasingly defining the success of dental businesses, and the labs that move to meet this challenge will be the labs that grow. Choosing the right 3D printing system is therefore one of the most critical business decisions a lab can make.
With these challenges and the high quality dental solutions already provided by ScanSystems, it was clear that ScanSystems was now in a peak position to assume additional business growth. An added incentive was that ScanSystems needed to streamline its business and required a 3D printing system that could enable faster throughput without compromising its high standards and without costly expansion of their technician staff and facilities.
The Solution
“The Objet Eden260V™ 3D Printing System provided the ideal solution for ScanSystems, as it enabled us to improve the quality of our dental restoration manufacturing and placement. The 3D Printing System enables us to rapidly manufacture digital stone models- that guarantee dentists a high level of precision in the placement of dental restorations. This is very difficult to achieve using traditional freehand techniques.”
ScanSystems’ technicians now design models for an extensive range of indications including models directly from the company’s own scans and gypsum scans. This allows ScanSystems to easily produce all lab models locally and among its dental lab partners- completely bypassing traditional manufacturing procedures that are slower and more expensive.
Using the Objet Eden260V 3D Printing System, ScanSystems is able to print models with exceptionally fine details and an outstanding surface finish – all necessary for ensuring the high degree of accuracy required by their team and dentists.
The Result
By adopting Objet Eden260V 3D Printing System, ScanSystems is able to realize a complete digital workflow for in-house fabrication of models, abutments, coping/crowns and bridges of any size or combination. “With efficient in-house manufacturing and the many new indication possibilities, we could suddenly present a greater variety of dental solutions to our dentist clients,” said Sandro.
Whereas before they had to reject or outsource some enquiries, ScanSystems can now affirm production capability for every restoration order that comes in.
“With Objet 3D Printing System as part of the digital dentistry workflow, ScanSystems has dramatically reduced the design process time and has optimized their resources by bringing non-technicians into the workflow that they had never before thought possible. This has sky-rocketed the daily production yield per dental technician. ScanSystems’ investment has been rapidly returned through an increase in business, faster throughput and operational cost reductions.”
