Printed Nano Ceramics

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Who has been using it and what have you experienced with it. One person I know has used it and his clients have. They are only using them as temps now because of breakage.
 
Which products, and used for what?
We've made some use of Sculpture 2.0 for temps, and Titan for full-arch stuff that needs more toughness. Not a lot, because we're already well-equipped with mills we generally prefer, but some, especially for long-term temps. Titan makes a big difference for preventing fractures and breakage of bigger restorations, Sculpture lacks the toughness you need to handle the flexing of bridges or full arches.

I have strong issues with using these printable nanoceramics for anything permanent, or rather, as a direct substitution for milled restorations, because yeah, they're absolutely not the equal of stuff milled from blanks. You cannot, from a technical perspective, treat (say) a printed Rodin crown interchangeably with a milled zirconia equivalent, so labs absolutely should not be from a pricing and applicability perspective. The patient isn't getting the same product with comparable longevity on the months-and-years timelines that matter to people in the chair, and I don't like the idea of presenting them as such. Might as well make all our precious metal restorations half as thick without changing the pricing, saving money is saving money, right?
 
its plastic holding rocks together so when the plastic breaks the rocks separate . so to get the same strength as say a zirconia mono crown you need plastic that's the same flex strength as sintered zi .I haven't found a plastic that's used in dentistry that strong yet. I say dentistry because someone will know of some plastic that's used in space ships that's bright green and say but this plastic is. HEHEHEHEHEHE
 
Another product to be filed under “game changer “.
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I think it's fair to say that it genuinely is a game-changer, equal to milled zirconia or no- its bulk mechanical properties are still exceptional for a printed material, dramatically outperforming the previous Best You Can Print materials, and significantly expands the scope of work you can do with just a printer. Even a $600 printer, which is crazy.

...but it's a game-changer with a very specific scope, and is chronically marketed as having a much larger scope + wider applicability than it possesses in reality, which is the problem. And I expect that scope to shrink in the years to come, as the real-world
 
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we've been having this same conversation every year since 2018
 
I think it's fair to say that it genuinely is a game-changer, equal to milled zirconia or no- its bulk mechanical properties are still exceptional for a printed material, dramatically outperforming the previous Best You Can Print materials, and significantly expands the scope of work you can do with just a printer. Even a $600 printer, which is crazy.

...but it's a game-changer with a very specific scope, and is chronically marketed as having a much larger scope + wider applicability than it possesses in reality, which is the problem. And I expect that scope to shrink in the years to come, as the real-world
a very nice way of calling bs
 
It looks ok, cannot say I trust it. We occasionally use them for temps we messed up and bought the sprintray hype. Its just not the accuracy we need.
 

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