Here is a 30 minute video on everything you need to know to get started making your own aligners!
Posted April 11, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Posted April 9, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Ortho Cheapo: In Office Aligner Case with Archform and the $529 Anycubic Photon Printer
Here is another case done with Archform, the $50 per case, in office aligner software. If you saw my last case, I really only recommend this software for those familiar with Ortho and aligner therapy. Scanned in CEREC Ortho and exported as an STL. Class I Molar and Canine, just a little crowded. Typical…
Posted April 5, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Clearly You Can Print Analog Models on the Moonray: 3D Printed re usable Analog Model with Emax and Legacy 2
Ok, so I have to eat my words a bit. I had posted and taught that printers above an XY resolution of 60 microns could not print dies or analog models and they were only good for guides, ortho, night guards and dentures. Whelp, I am wrong folks. The CEO of Moonray and I grabbed…
Posted April 4, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
I Like to Move It Move It: In office 3D Printed aligners with Archform and Moonray
I am really liking Archform!! Arform.co is where you download it. The software is free, and its $50 per case export. In my office I divide up who to send aligners to based on complexity. A year and a half or more: send to Invisalign. 6 month to a year and a half: exceed-ortho.com and…
Posted April 2, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Bye Bye BlueSky? #19 Legacy 3 Dentiq Guided Case with 3D Printed Guide
Now, now don’t everyone get mad at my at once! I truly love Blue Ski Bio and their free software Blue Sky Plan, just find you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get the final product, and just in my hands, I find the interface hard to use. Enter Dentiq Guide. This…
Posted February 22, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Make Michonne Proud: Another Katana Case
Ran out of A3 Katana blocks so here is a case I sent out using ExoCAD and Alien Milling. Open contact 14/15 decay around all teeth, did some heroics on #15. Sent to Alien at $39 a unit without stating, just milled and sintered. #13 is elongated bossily to jump a cross bite. Cemented…
Posted February 21, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Analog Dentin Case 2: Emax Crown on 3D Printed Analog Model for a Legacy 2 Implant
Here is another case where we got to use Emax on a 3D Printed analog model. Non restorable #30 extracted placed a 7mm legacy and grafted around it with MFDBA. Scanned with a Sirona scan post to make the crown and an NT Trading scan post so that we can make the model in…
Posted February 20, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Race to the Bottom? A $3.85 Zirconia crown from a CEREC scan
Free Crown Friday is something that Alien Milling Center will be doing every Friday in 2018!! Last Friday I posted that they would be doing a free crown with their Alien Zirconia and sinter it for you. You need to have either a lab scanner or a chaired cad cam system and a way…
Posted February 19, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Analog Dentin Case 1: New Implant Direct Scan Posts and 3D Printing Analogs.
Alan Mead from Dental Hacks Nation fame as a running joke about Digital Enamel changing its name to Analog Dentin, so I have two cases this week where we made 3D Printed Analog Models to celebrate the cheese! Implant Direct now has both a line of Scan Bodies and matching analogs that correspond to the…
Posted February 15, 2018
By August de Oliveira, DDS
I Want to Believe: An Alien $45 Implant Crown and a $22 single Zirconia on a Legacy 2
This case is certainly not the prettiest, but I wanted to play with NT Trading’s Scan Post, Reusable Lab Analog and it ti base on another Alien Milling el cheapo case. Spoiler Alert: Meh. Could I have done this chair side? Absolutely. But just wanted to see the difference is esthetics between CEREC Zirocnia and…
