Formlabs Dental Offers Solutions for Making Digital Dentistry Easier

Formlabs Dental now offers a suite of new dental-specific software, products and materials designed to make digital dentistry even more accessible, intuitive and efficient for dental labs and practices. The suite includes a PreForm Dental workspace, new PreForm integrations with intraoral scanners, Fast Arch Printing, Form Auto, Fast Cure and Temporary CB Resin, all designed to make dentistry easier. 

“Formlabs Dental’s new offerings showcase our team’s commitment to providing an unmatched workflow and industry-leading print quality to dental practices and labs,” says Guillaume Bailliard, president of health care, Formlabs. “By speeding up and improving every stage of the 3D printing workflow, from image capture to printing and postprocessing, Formlabs is delivering the next step in digital dentistry while reducing costs and time.”

The dental industry continues to adopt 3D printing to streamline workflows and make personalized care more affordable. Since 2016, Formlabs has sold 25,000-plus printers in the dental community, which have been used to print more than 25 million dental parts, ranging from models to surgical guides. The company’s new offerings were developed to take digital dentistry to the next level.

Formlabs’ PreForm Dental is a dental-specific software workspace. The workspace software streamlines 3D printing setup, management and monitoring, enabling dental users to click less to do more. Powered by automatic functions based on dental indications (such as material selection, print setting and support), PreForm Dental automates the print setup for restorative models, occlusal guards and more. Advanced users can create and save their own custom presets for layer height, orientation and support settings to standardize the print process for all users within a practice or lab. PreForm Dental workspace is included with every Form 3B/+ and Form 3BL printer, as well as for existing users. 

Formlabs Dental and 3Shape have partnered to co-develop an integration that makes dentistry easier and more intuitive for their customers. The PreForm integration with 3Shape Produce enables dental lab and practice users to design and print more seamlessly with an optimized workflow and one click print when using Splint Studio, Implant Studio, Model Maker and other 3Shape apps. 

The Fast Arch Printing enables two times faster on-demand printing. With it, users can print eight arches in 20 minutes and a single arch in less than 10 minutes. Fast Arch Printing increases productivity so users can go from design to print two times faster than current settings, enabling same-visit dentistry and fast, on-demand dental modeling. Users can deliver a retainer in less than 30 minutes, including washing, curing and thermoforming. Fast Arch Printing is available on the Form 3B and Form 3B+.

Form Auto enables automated 24/7 printing with automatic part removal so dental users can level up production while reducing labor. When parts are complete, Form Auto seamlessly removes finished parts from Build Platform 2 using Quick Release Technology and starts the next print. Users can add prints to the queue from anywhere and Form Auto will complete the back-to-back queue as soon as possible. The hardware extension is available for order and works with the Form 3B and Form 3B+. 

Fast Cure reduces cure time by 90%. Designed to unlock same-visit dentistry, Fast Cure is validated to cure more than 17 resins in less than six minutes, saving 90% on cure time compared to the Form Cure. With preprogrammed settings and no preheating necessary, Fast Cure can cure dental models in one minute; crowns, bridges and surgical guides in five minutes; and occlusal guards in six minutes.

Temporary CB Resin is a tooth-colored resin with bleach shade. Digitally manufactured restorations enable a quick, collaborative process between dentist, technician and patient. The new extra white Bleach Shade of Temporary CB Resin is designed for temporary crown and bridge restorations, inlays, onlays and veneers, providing excellent marginal adaptation, strength and aesthetics. This tooth-colored resin can be used in traditional temporary cements to fix restorations and lasts up to 12 months. Designed with Formlabs’ partner, Bego, the Temporary CB Resin will help dental users’ patients smile even brighter. Temporary CB Resin is available in four VITA shades, including the Bleach Shade. 

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