In general, 3D printing can be simply divided into two applications in the medical field: biological 3D printing and non biological 3D printing. In terms of technology, making non biological 3D printing is much simpler than biological 3D printing, and it is also the most widely used field. Especially in the field of Orthopaedics and dentistry, many kinds of dental 3D printers are exhibited in the annual oral exhibition, which not only shows us the best dental 3D printer technology, but also shows us a variety of 3D dental models.


At present, the use of 3D printing technology in the dental field is mainly used to make removable dentures, orthodontics and dental implants, and from the current market performance, the dental industry is the medical field with the most potential for large-scale application of 3D printing technology. According to the well-known smartch Market Research Report, in 2020, the global 3D printing scale in the dental industry reached 2.3 billion US dollars. So why is 3D printing developing so rapidly in the dental industry? According to relevant data, professional dental 3D printers have been widely used in dental medical institutions and denture processing plants. Why?

One of the main reasons is that 3D printing has great advantages over traditional manufacturing of dental products. We will make a comparison between the two production methods: first, the traditional production process (here, the production of porcelain fused to metal teeth is taken as an example): impression wax mold casting channel installation embedding wax loss casting surface treatment finishing final finished product; The 3D printing process is used: Impression - scanning - Modeling - 3D printing processing - finishing - finishing the finished product。

It can be seen from the above processing flow that compared with the traditional process, using 3D printing greatly reduces the time and labor of the manufacturing process, and also has advantages over the traditional process in terms of material consumption. This is also the reason why many dental medical institutions and denture processing factories began to use 3D printers in large areas.