Printing dental temporary crowns

If the right filament material is available, it seems practical for dentist to 3D print temporary crowns. Multiple images of the tooth to crown could be used for a 3D scan. Custom software or settings would probably make the software finish in less time. A 3D-printed temporary crown would probably take less work to get it to fit properly. Anyone know of development to do this? This probably would take a series of clinical trials to get FDA approval.

Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/15/2020 12:38PM by pvwebb.

Making a 3d printer would be 10-15% of the technical problem solving, the rest is resin.
By the time you will get through FDA with that 3d printer and material (specially material) you may be well be past price point of CEREC CNC machines.
For example:
CNC machines do not deal with internal pores of the material where 3d printer do.
Any pores left by 3d printer between layers would be a potential bio or chemical hazard for the patient (chemical in case of use of SLA/DLP printing techniques).

But solving some of the problems may lead you to the new areas of application, so good luck.

Here's a link given me: [all3dp.com]

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Here's a link given me: [all3dp.com]

If you read your link, they already do 3D printed crowns, but use special materials. FDM printers wouldn't be capable of this based on how they build layers.

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Dental 3D printing has made creating crowns incredibly simple. The doctor scans the broken tooth and then uses software to create the model of the crown. They can create it in their office in less than 30 minutes using either a special resin or CNC technology to carve the crown out of porcelain.

Checked with dental office and found out that some dentist in the U.S. are already using the technology in the above link.