Game-Changing Products 2021

Dennis Urban, CDT

This biocompatible 3D printing resin is designed for high-strength rigid dental splints and night guards. It is comparable in strength to other hard splint materials but with durability over time due to its unique properties, including elongation at break. The fabrication and design aspects also make this a game-changer.

Ivotion Ivoclar Vivadent

Steven Pigliacelli, MDT, CDT

Ivotion makes milled dentures a reality. I was never a fan of gluing a block of teeth to a milled base or milling a tooth-colored denture and then shading the gingival with acrylic or composite. The Ivotion pucks are both tooth-colored and gingival-shaded so as to make a monolithic denture.

CM SOPRANO CERAMIC SURFACE KIT anaxdent North America

Mark D. Williamson, CDT

The CM Soprano Ceramic Surface kit has been a nice addition to our laboratory. It is especially advantageous if you are already using anaxdent's AnaxGum composites. The colors are beautiful, identical, and compliment any zirconia case.

HeyGears 3D Printing Line HeyGears

Steven Pigliacelli, MDT, CDT

HeyGears better understands the business of printing and dental laboratory production than the competitors. Their printers, materials, and the business model are dramatically unique and innovative.

3DmeStudio Imagoworks

Eli Ganon

This product provides a digital dentistry CAD solution with AI support, as 3DmeStudio can carry out AI-based alignment, inspection, Boolean operations, and many other tasks without any installation.

Tera Harz TC-85 Graphy

Eli Ganon

Korean manufacturer Graphy was one of two companies at the International Dental Show (IDS) in September showing materials for direct printing clear aligners (the other being Izzi Dentalia, from Croatia). Tera Harz TC-85 is a game-changer: a 3D photopolymer resin with memory. No more models.

Wagner Tray Preat Corporation

Robert Kreyer, CDT

The Wagner Tray saves clinical chair time by eliminating the preliminary impression appointment for edentulous impressions. The unique tray design and material enable the clinician to capture a definitive border-molded impression at the first appointment. By reducing chair time and providing a definitive digital or analog denture in fewer appointments the Wagner Tray is a game-changer.

SPRINTRAY NANO CERAMIC HYBRID ONX RESIN SprintRay

Mark D. Williamson, CDT

We have been lucky enough to be one of the first laboratories utilizing SprintRay's Nano Ceramic Hybrid OnX Resin. We went from time-consuming PMMA milling to quickly printing PMMA. We can print temporaries and monolithic dentures, as well as utilize the material for immediate load cases. It's cost effective, it saves us time, and the results are beautiful and strong! Coming soon!

Flexcera Desktop Health

Jessica Birrell, CDT

This exciting new product allows flexibility and long-chain stability for printable dentures. Available in multiple gingiva colors and tooth colors, it provides the ability to characterize printable dentures with the resin itself. Along with ease of use, we are finding increased longevity with the enhanced ability to characterize with printable denture teeth. Our newest studies involve replacing flexible partials, as Flexcera allows some flexibility with undercuts and clasps.

ZIPRO Ceramic 3D Printer AON Co.

Eli Ganon

This 3D printer was being offered for €40,000 at the International Dental Show (IDS) in September. That low cost for a ceramic printer is a game-changer, because others on the market have cost €150,000-€250,000.

IDS REPORT

Read more from IDT Editorial Advisory Board member Eli Ganon at the International Dental Show (IDS) at: insidedentaltech.com/idt1278.