Formlabs’ Elastomeric Resins Expand Options for Patient-Specific Care

Formlabs has added three health care-focused materials to its library with BioMed Elastic 50A Resin, BioMed Flex 80A Resin and IBT Flex Resin. The two BioMed materials can expand the applications for 3D printing in health care, reducing the time and costs associated with traditional production methods (such as molding) for surgical models, medical devices and more. The IBT Flex Resin is designed with tear-resistant, accurate and transparent properties for dental applications, including 3D printed direct composite restoration guides and indirect bonding trays.

According to Formlabs, since the pandemic 3D printing applications in health care and dental have grown with facilities, health networks and providers turning to 3D printers and medical materials to satisfy demand for patient care to solve supply chain challenges. As providers continue recognizing the benefits of patient-specific care that is possible with 3D printing, Formlabs is supporting the momentum with new materials that will reduce production costs and time, expanding access to patient-specific, directly 3D printed dental guides, surgical models, medical components and medical devices.

“Adoption of 3D printing is accelerating in health care and dentistry, bringing patients the benefit of personalized care that improves comfort and outcomes,” says Guillaume Bailliard, Formlabs president of Health Care. “Formlabs’ materials development team is dedicated to delivering new materials and solutions that will advance 3D printing in health care and dental workflows, and expand the possibilities for patient-specific care. By adding these new flexible and elastomeric materials to our extensive biocompatible and dental materials library, we are ushering in a new wave of personalized health care and digital dentistry that will bring the benefits directly to patients.”

BioMed Elastic 50A Resin and BioMed Flex 80A Resin are biocompatible materials with ISO 10993 and USP Class VI certifications that enable an expanded personalized approach to health care. These materials are suited for long-term skin contact and short-term mucosal membrane contact for flexible patient-matched medical device components, comfortable medical devices and tissue medical models for surgeons to reference in the operating room. Each material delivers varying flexibility to suit different applications.

BioMed Elastic 50A resin is a soft and elastic material for applications requiring comfort, biocompatibility and transparency. The material’s elasticity will suit mass-personalized medical devices requiring long-term skin contact and patient-specific fit, soft-tissue models, gastrointestinal models for fluidics visualization or complex neurovascular models for surgeons to reference in the operating room.

BioMed Flex 80A Resin is a firm, flexible, medical-grade material for applications requiring durability, biocompatibility and transparency. The ability to directly print this medical-grade resin can reduce workflow times by eliminating molding to directly produce flexible, patient-specific medical devices or firm tissue medical models surgeons can reference in the operating room.

IBT Flex Resin is a Class I FDA registered, biocompatible material that delivers consistent, predictable outcomes for printing highly accurate, indirect bonding trays and direct composite restoration guides. With enhanced flexibility, tear resistance and translucency, this material can enable dental labs and clinics to save time and costs while maintaining the accuracy needed for the seamless and precise application of orthodontic brackets and restorative composite materials.

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