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Very interesting, thanks! Im wondering if they are printing the teeth too. Didn't say, sadly.
Said dual head, so I'm with you on the guess, just don't like guessing. Change out toothshade filament per rpd and then 100 minutes with a shade characterization/adjustment kit...i believe they are, as they said they re-engineered the valplast for printing. wouldnt surprie me to see dual-filament approach with some monochrome teeth shade close to A1.5 as my clients call it (something like 2m1 or c 140)
How in donkey days is that happening? Valplast doesn't bond to pmma.The teeth are not printed, they are cold cured onto the matrix.
So do you snap in the tooth afterwards, or the tooth is placed occlusal down and the valplast is printed around it?I talked to Justin Marks about this process. He is the owner the printer company. The teeth are milled pmma and the printed valplast has a large post with an undercut for mechanical retention.
You print the valplast pink, mill the pmma teeth, then reline the teeth with pmma to lock them onto the undercut posts that are in the pink.So do you snap in the tooth afterwards, or the tooth is placed occlusal down and the valplast is printed around it?
Thanks a lot. The diatoric issue is what kills most of the flexibles I see. The teeth falling off after being chewed into.You print the valplast pink, mill the pmma teeth, then reline the teeth with pmma to lock them onto the undercut posts that are in the pink.
One of the positives of doing it this way is having custom made teeth instead of grinding on denture teeth to make them fit less than ideal areas. I never liked the diatorics in the denture teeth either.
One drawback to this process is the printing actually is very rough and it must be smoothed and finished quite a bit. Justin said that they have the right finishing tools now to make it easier than it used to be.
I don't do removeables any more, but this made me somewhat interested.
we do 2 visit partials already....but they arent valplast!Anyone using this stuff?? IOS Docs are getting itchy. They want their magic wand to make 2 visit partials.. Any takers?