Me just going through a whole year making a complete denture by hand in dental school, wondering why digital approaches weren’t taught and practiced in lab classes, lol. Anyways, wonderful contents as always, thank you, sir!
That's a good work.. i have two questions please: 1-What type of scanners are you using? 2-Do you prefer make degital dentures than make an traditional impression? and who it the best for more retention an stability?
Hi Wally.. Thanks so much for all your educational videos, I'm looking to start printing full dentures initially and will probably go SprintRay... what would you suggest is the best design software, guess they all have strengths and weaknesses?
I had two observations after candycoating with keystone soft. I did two identical splints and only candy coated the intaglio surface of one of them. I made the layer as thin as I possibly could, and the splint that was not candy coated on the intaglio fit better. Also after the occlusion of the splint was adjusted with marking paper, I polished it with fine pumice and it took the candy coat layer right off. Any thoughts on this? Thanks
Yea if Candy Coating the intaglio as well as the cameo surface your design has to have the appropriate spacer. What setting did you use when you did your design ? My guess is you did not increase the offset? 100 micron spacer is needed. Lastly, of course when you grind on the surface you destroy it. You are not removing the Candy coating, you are rather roughing the surface. The same exact thing happens when grind on a hand polished guard with pumice.
You are correct. I did not adjust the offset. I was interested in seeing how much the candy coat layer actually influenced the fit. I will account for this in the future. It looked great out of the cure box. I was sad, however, that I could not get the polished ice look back after using a pumice wheel. Thanks for all your knowledge and input.
Hey Wally, how are you finding the durability on these printed dentures to be now? I started printing them 4 years ago and got out of it except for temporaries because of how fragile the available base materials were.
Luxitone and Apex denture base are probably the only good pink base materials on the market. They need to be manufactured to exacting instructions for use set forth by the manufacturer and generally need to be 2.5 mm thick.
Thanks for the video, I have a question if you were to mill this out t of a puck in what category would you put it in so that the milling software would recognize it?
Is there follow up for case planning and staff training for students who take the week long programs? Implementation of some of these protocols seem intimidating for a novice user. Thank you for the great content
I still struggle with these after One year of graduation, it looks easy but unfortunately when it comes to doing it myself on a real patient with all the saliva, blood, soft tissues and limited visibility it's really challenging to do everything perfectly, i wish one day i can reach that level of professionalism
The key is doing a 300 prepa on a typodnt. Getting good doesn’t happen between 9-5pm. Your first hundred you give yourself 2hrs each tooth. Your next 50 1.5 hr Your next 50 1hr Your next 50 30 minutes Your next 50 10 minutes
