By the Numbers: What Are You Printing?
Inside Dental Technology delivers updates on digital workflows, materials, lab techniques, and innovation in dental technology through expert articles and videos.
June 22, 2020
Volume 11, Issue 6, June/July 2020
Page(s): p. 32
For many dental laboratories, the question is no longer "Are you 3D printing?" but rather "What are you 3D printing?" More than half of the respondents in an IDT survey say they are 3D printing in-house. Models remain the most popular product to fabricate additively, but more than one-quarter of laboratories say they are printing surgical guides, and just slightly fewer are printing night guards/bite splints and dentures.