So no one is a bigger fan of Guided surgery than me (why did I just sound like Trump?) lol. But sometimes you have a patient that can’t fit the the CBCT or is a wheel chair and is hard to position. Sometimes you miss the scan and the patient won’t let you rescan, or…
CEREC STL Printing: The Movie!
I am super excited at the announcement by the DENTSPLY Sirona folks at the IDS that, in version 4.5 we will have the ability to export CEREC models in the opensource file format STL and 3D print!! Watch the video and follow along with files and a PDF at: https://spaces.hightail.com/space/2XV3B
The Grind Never Stops: CEREC Night Guard
3D Printing with CEREC has so many cool applications! I do about 10 nightguards a month so figuring out how to print them from a CEREC scan is huge for me. The first step is to scan the patient in CEREC Ortho. You want the patient to be biting on a leaf gauge in centric…
Ortho on the Down Low: $190 3D Printed CEREC Ortho Aligners with Form2
Here is another CEREC Ortho to STL conversion via Doral Dental Lab and Inlab. This patient did not like her spaces and was OK with minimizing them and then doing some bonding or veneers later. Scanned in CEREC Ortho with powder and converted in InLab via connect. Checked in Meshmixer. NOTE: you do not have…
Problem Child: Single 3D Printed Aligner in Meshmixer
We all have a patient like this. One single tooth out of alignment. She lost her retainer and just wanted #23 moved a little to the buccal. Powdered and imaged in CEREC ortho, converted to STL in CEREC InLab. When you get an STL it has a model or multiple models in a world…
El Cheapo Ortho: 3D Printer Aligner case for $190 plus materials
Well I am certainly excited for Blue Sky’s Ortho Software but in the mean time this is a cool case that for $190 Exceed Ortho will set up an aligner case or for $295 which includes brackets and wires, will do a vacuform bracket case. Scanned in CEREC chair side and you can see where…
The Hole Enchilada: Generating a hole for a lab analog with CEREC,3D Printing, and BSP for a 3.5mm Replant Implant
This is something I have been waiting for for a while in Galileos and found through the guys as BlueSkyBio Academy how to make a hole in you CEREC generated scan to get a lab model for an analog. What can you do with it? You can pre make a temp, you can…
Galileos is My Co Pilot: DigitalGuide Pilot Guide with Legacy 2 Implant
Here is another perfect case for the newbies out there. I did a pilot guide as this was for a live surgery for Implant Direct’s 101 course and we wanted to show the drill sequence free hand. This guide was made at Implant Concierge in San Antonio, one of the available labs that can produce…
Form Fail: Form 2 3D Printed CG2/Legacy 2 Case Free Hand Placed
Being that we are all a bit tech minded its fun to push the envelope, but sometimes it pushes back. Here is a case where I converted a CEREC Guide 2 RST to STL with the help of InLab 16 and it didn’t fit. Interesting enough in retrospect it may be more of a CEREC…
Yo Baby Yo Baby Yo: Placenta/DirecGen Graft with 3D Printed Essix Temps
I can’t wait to see the results of the placenta grafts I have been doing but here is a pretty straightforward case. I’m still surprised when docs that come to my courses don’t socket graft. DirecGen MFDBA <1mm particulate mixed cortical cancellous cadaver bone. Love the smily face. Scanned teeth in CEREC, converted to…