Himself dentist: American student corrected occlusion using 3D printing

Dentistry in most countries - very expensive. Plus, is not it, and there are many people who are alone in the dental office, unless there are specific problems. These problems can be attributed malocclusion - it does not interfere too much to live. However, people with malocclusion often experience discomfort purely psychological in nature - either you smile broadly or laugh. Malocclusion was also a student of Dudley Amos (Amos Dudley) from the Institute of Technology of New Jersey.

Amos did not like his bite, he could not bring himself to smile broadly. This braces set he could not because he was a very tight budget. But the student had access to professional 3D equipment and related consumables. Plus, he was a smart student, and decided that he will be able to solve the problem as one of the dental aligners (not braces and plastic aligners, serving the same purpose), he saw traces of 3D printing. The student decided to try to make yourself the same. Dudley read a few books on prosthetics, studied the characteristics of materials and he decided to do for myself aligner.



First he made a cast of the upper jaw with teeth. After some polishing dental impression taught scanned using 3D scanner, obtaining a three-dimensional model of the jaw and teeth. After that, it was necessary to develop a series of aligners, each of which would have corrected the problem a little, just a little bit.



After that could only print aligners on a highly accurate 3D printer, and "to put in the work." Each of the aligners he wore day and night, for about 4 months. After that, the bite was the ideal.

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Whatever it was, a self-taught dentist does not recommend to repeat his work, because it is too dangerous for the health. If somewhere miscalculate, problems can be not only psychological, but the bite is broken forever. Whatever it was, but Dudley has saved more than one thousand dollars, plus solved its problems independently, simultaneously gaining a lot of useful knowledge and experience. Do you think it realistic to repeat the experience of Dudley? Yes, it's not a problem I do not know, I think it is dangerous Well, if you want to say goodbye to the teeth, you can try, he just got lucky Voted 428 people. Abstain 123 people. Only registered users can participate in the survey. Come in, please.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/272960/