Ivory Digital Denture’s “clinic in a box” lets clinicians design, produce, and fit partial and full dentures in a single patient visit, according to the company. With full patient participation in the design stage, denturists now can provide a full range of denture design and precision-fitting prostheses in as little as three hours, Ivory Digital Denture reports.
“The traditional process of designing, fabricating, and fitting typically requires five to eight appointments over several weeks. The dentures are transferred back and forth between the clinic and the laboratory for each stage,” said Ivory Digital Denture developer Shlomo Sharer, who has been a practicing denturist in the Toronto area for more than 20 years.
While traditional and other emerging 3-D denture-fitting processes include only nominal patient engagement in the design process, the Ivory Digital Process is fundamentally focused on patient engagement, Sharer said. This gives patients a sense of ownership of their designed smile, leading to improved case acceptance and patient satisfaction, Sharer said.
“With 3-D printing, the fit of the dentures is so accurate that we achieve denture stability and suction to a degree rarely if ever experienced with the old processing technology,” said Sharer. “We can even achieve suction on lower dentures in virtually every case without any special treatment, a welcome development for many experienced denture wearers.
With Ivory Digital, the company says, denturists can provide their patients with a complete set of dentures on site in a single appointment without the digital files needing to be sent to an outside lab for the dentures to be manufactured.
Ivory Digital’s clean and safe process requires none of the outside laboratory work that has been part of the denture-making process for nearly a century, the company says. The system uses biocompatible stereolithography ultraviolet-curing resins that have been approved for intraoral use by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States and by Health Canada.
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