Formlabs, the designer and manufacturer of powerful and accessible 3D printing systems and BEGOa leading specialist in prosthetics and implant dentistry, last week announced a partnership that will enable Formlabs dental customers to 3D print temporary and permanent crowns and bridges directly for patients with BEGO’s best dental materials. The ability to use completely digital dental workflows with 3D printed temporary restorations will enable a fast, low-cost, repeatable process that improves patient care and case acceptance rates. BEGO and Formlabs presented their new partnership at LMT Lab Day on February 21-22, where attendees saw the materials. The partnership is a natural evolution of the recently announced Formlabs Dental Business Unit and Form 3Bwhich focuses on ensuring that all dental care providers can deliver an exceptional level of care to their patients.
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Dental professionals currently using Formlabs Form 3B and Form 2 3D printers will be able to use BEGO resins to 3D print permanent single crowns, inlays, inlays and veneers and temporary crowns and bridges. This enables dental laboratories to reduce the costs associated with current crown and bridge fabrication while simultaneously increasing the quality of the final product. The properties of this unique material will offer patients excellent aesthetics, low tendency to aging and discoloration, low plaque accumulation and high comfort due to low sensitivity to cold and heat. Both temporary and permanent materials will be offered to Formlabs users in different shades and can be customized to a highly aesthetic result.
“Direct printing of temporary crowns and bridges is one of the most sought-after applications by Formlabs customers. By partnering with BEGO and leveraging their 130 years of dental experience, we will be able to not only address this need, but take it one step further by offering materials for permanent crowns. We are excited that the large industry can continue and evolves this challenge. labs and dentists face as digital dentistry becomes a standard for patient care.” said Dávid Lakatos, Chief Product Officer of Formlabs.
BEGO has more than 20 years of experience developing 3D printing materials specifically for the dental community and is considered an expert in all dental manufacturing techniques. With this partnership, BEGO is one of the first companies to join the Formlabs Materials Partner Platform. The platform is part of Formlabs’ Dental Business Unit and enables third-party material manufacturers to partner with Formlabs to develop new and exciting resins for use in the dental industry.
“We couldn’t be happier to work with Formlabs, especially at this time when digital dentistry is reaching a breakthrough. It took a lot of time and a lot of effort and commitment from everyone involved to be able to bring to the market a fully validated workflow for final restorations. This partnership underlines BEGO’s leadership in the dental materials market Executive 3D Printing by BEGO,” said Axelef Officerme.
To learn more, visit dental.formlabs.com.
