Titanium denture frames

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Hello DLN

I want to start making titanium denture frames.

I will have my own secret mill, my own secret cam, and my own secret titanium source.

I'm here to gauge interest in Canadian labs, denturists, dentists. What kind of volume would you be able to send for a pricetag of 210$cdn flat rate including shipping in canada?

If i can get 4-6 partials per day that would be a great start.

Its going to be just me, no employees. You call me i answer the phone. Until i can prove the demand exceeds a certain threshold i wont be able to convince banks i can get another machine.

Who would be interested?
 
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Turnaround time?
Are you designing?
 
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By your design, or for those clients without knowledge i am working with a couple places one in Toronto, another in BC to do designs.

As to turnaround time, i want to say 3 days? 2 in lab one shipping. Gives me time to remake if a tool breaks.
 
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I'm interested...will put out feelers to see if there's interest for such thing. Is it going to be fitted and finished for that price, or it is only fresh out of the mill ?
 
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One thing what worries me about Ti is a b1tch to work on... Aurum was making them for a while (by casting),not sure if they still do
 
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Fresh off the mill, but i plan on incorporating a scallop polishing toolpath of my own creation.

Milled ti will not suffer the casting pitfalls of pitting and warping and heat sink sprues. Printed ti also suffers from a lot of requirements of hand finishing.
 
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Soon as you're ready for production will shoot you a file ;)
 
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I would charge extra for shipping if I were you.
 
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Any design would have to be supervised by an rdt in Canada keep in mind.
 
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Thats why i'm not doing designs.

210 includes shipping
 
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Appreciate any and all input
 
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Any design would have to be supervised by an rdt in Canada keep in mind.
Would a frame/Denture/restoration of any type from the US be required to have a Canadian RDT on staff at the design and/or fabrication lab?
 
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Do not have much call for titanium. Would you also be able to mill chrome? Where are you located?
 
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Would a frame/Denture/restoration of any type from the US be required to have a Canadian RDT on staff at the design and/or fabrication lab?
Not on staff but the case has to go through a Canadian dentist or rdt. So the design would have to be from the sender.
The guidelines were developed long before outsourcing/ file sending to another country was an issue.
Of course yours truly was the one to take on the old boys who set this up back in the day.
I was a rebel back then too.
 
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You mean like partial denture frames, or Titanium palates??

This was a thing years ago. exposed titanium in the mouth has a tendency to turn black and ugly. Any clasping is going to spring open and loosen up super quick.
 
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You mean like partial denture frames, or Titanium palates??

This was a thing years ago. exposed titanium in the mouth has a tendency to turn black and ugly. Any clasping is going to spring open and loosen up super quick.
So, that's why it fell out of favor ? I've thought it was b/c was hard to cast and work with
 
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LOL, I remember all the " industry experts" claiming it was a " game changer".

Come to think of it, they were the same ones that said Dicor was a game changer too.
 
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I am too young to know what Dicor was Dontknow ...
 
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Maybe cast titanium might do some of that, but milled titanium probably won't. Ti is not a reactive metal so blacking would be tarnish and inert metal like ti and gold don't tarnish.

So i don't believe you.
 

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