Posted December 14, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Get it? “Tooth Hurty”? Ok I’ll stick to dentistry. DS Sirona has been working on an Endo suite for Galileos and I have been dying to try it out, but we are still awaiting the arrival. So for now, I had to come up with a way. Now when I first heard about Endo guide,…
Posted December 5, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Computerized Smile Design is all the rage and I have been dying to take a course. But if you have been 3D printing you know my buddy Cristian Brenes. His Tooth and Pontic Library are legendary in Meshmixer and he has just one upped himself with the Christian Brenes Smile Overlay Library. This…
Posted November 15, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Another 3D printed night guard, but this one had a twist to it. This patient has been missing #9 for 60 years and has always worn a flipper. He has zero desire to restore it and says he can’t sleep without it. Obviously needed a night guard so we made one on top of it!…
Posted November 9, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
One really cool thing you can do with a CEREC STL is 3D print whats called a Geller model, which has ditched dies that can be popped in and out of the model. ExoCAD’s model builder program can take your STL and design a Geller model is just a few minutes. This was taken off…
Posted November 8, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
I am not even going to pretend to know much about Occlusion, so please take this post with a grain of salt. One thing that is great about CEREC restorations is that you need to go back and study dental anatomy to make a nice crown. Now that I am making a lot of my…
Posted November 7, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Making aligners in office is a huge plus for both you and your patient’s. For about $250 you can do an entire aligner case vs $1800 with Invisalign. But one annoying thing is that we still have to use a pressure former and trim the aligners. 3D printer and resin companies are working hard to…
Posted November 3, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
I am so happy now that a number of 3D printing companies have started carrying clear FDA approved materials for night guards and surgical guides. In the past we had to use a derivative of NextDent’s SG resin which has the lovely color of urine, or if cured enough, the bottom of a swamp! Formlabs…
Posted November 2, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
One thing thats a bit annoying with CG2 is virtually extracting teeth. I’ve tried it in the software and was never good at it, so I brought the model into ExoCAD and with a few clicks got #29 which was slated for extraction as the crown was broken underneath with an existing post that was…
Posted November 1, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
Now that CEREC is open, we can play around with all sorts of different programs and have fun printing things! Although I do like ExoCAD for what we can print with it, I still use CEREC as my milling solution. In this case we have a healed #5 thats really deep in the gums and…
Posted October 31, 2017
By August de Oliveira, DDS
One thing that is really exciting about 3D Printing these days is the ability to print out temporaries and also, to get removable dies really easily. NextDent C and B resin is an FDA approved composite that is unfortunately only available in the US in shade A3.5! A Geller Model is a 3D Printed model…
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