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3D printing a straighter smile Medical

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No longer is it necessary to be saddled with bracket and wire braces for consecutive years in order to achieve a straighter smile: people around the world can correct their teeth alignment using customized clear aligners, which are not only much more discrete, but can be removed without professional intervention. The growing adoption of clear aligners—the market was reportedly worth over $2 billion in 2019—is due in no small part to 3D printing, a technology which has enabled orthodontic labs and specialist companies to achieve customization on a mass scale.

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EnvisionTEC lanches D4K Pro Dental Medical

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EnvisionTEC is introducing the new D4K Pro Dental, the highest resolution 4K desktop 3D printer specifically for the dental segment. The D4K Pro from EnvisionTEC includes the fastest print speed for a standard DLP printer (intended as non-continuous). As such it can deliver extremely accurate parts with the finest detail available.

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Belfast doctors study COVID-19 effects with 3D printed lung model AM Industry

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Though you’d be hard pressed to find a person that hasn’t heard about COVID-19, much is still not known about the virus, especially about its long-term effects on the human body. As part of ongoing research into how the virus will impact patients that have recovered from it, Axial3D and the respiratory team at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust have reproduced a scale 3D lung model of a COVID-19 patient using 3D printing.

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AK Medical’s fleet of GE Additive Arcam EBM printers enables implant production at scale Medical

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In China, AK Medical is a leading manufacturer of joint prosthetic devices and, interestingly, it was also the first company to receive approval for the implementation of metal 3D printed implants in China by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Today, medical device company has scaled up its production of orthopedic implants thanks to a fleet of eight GE Additive Arcam EBM systems.