3D Print Provisionals and Wax-ups

Providing temproary restorations and provisionals for esthetic work provide your patient with a great temporary solution between treatment approval and final placement. Offering next-day waxup presentations can dramatically increase case acceptance for esthetic procedures and help set patient expectations. 

Because they can print in less than an hour and cost only a few dollars in materials to make, 3D-printed provisonals and temporaries can be provided for a nominal fee, increasing patient access. Plus, rapidly replace broken or lost restorations from digital records, with no need to re-take impressions.

3D print temporary crowns and bridges for patients undergoing treatment. At only a few dollars per part to manufacture, flexibility in fees can help improve patient acceptance. And, because they can be produced in less than an hour, practices can now fabricate temporaries on the same day they're needed. 

Final esthetic restorations such as veneers are the result of experienced craftsmen. But your patients don't have to wait for the final product to see the results up close and in-person. With 3D printing, you can fabricate physical, beautiful wax-ups for patient presentation in a matter of hours. 

Dr. Lawrence Fung's Los Angeles practice was built from the ground-up to leverage digital technologies: intraoral scanning, advanced photogrpahy, and digital design all figured prominently in his daily workflow. Despite this, Dr. Fung was initially hesitant to adopt a 3D printing. But after only a few months, Dr. Fung has leveraged his printer to drastically increase case acceptance for cosmetic procedures, providing intra-oral wax-ups in just 24 hours for most of his patients. 

Using an intraoral scan and optional CBCT data, you can use 3rd-party software or work with a digital designer to create the digital model for the final restoration. Once you have your design, send one copy to your lab for production and import the other into RayWare to print using the material of your choosing.

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Dr Zhivago uses his SprintRay 3D printer to provide rapid wax-ups for his patients' esthetic and restorative procedures. Thanks to the low unit cost of each set of provisionals, he is able to provide his patients with spares in the case of loss or breakage, which is a huge boon to his world-travelling patient base. Learn how 3D printing is revolutionizing Dr. Zhivago's office in this Practice Insight.

You can use any scanner type you’d like with RayWare. We accept any .STL formatted scan data. This list of scanners shows many options that our customers often use, but it is not an exclusive list.

SprintRay Software allows you to choose a dental design software that meets your clinical needs. This list shows our recommended options, but our software accepts any design file formatted in .STL, which means you can use whatever you’re most comfortable with.

Our 3D printers have a global accuracy across a full arch within ±100 microns over 93 percent of the surfaces when printed at 50 micron layer thickness. Put simply: your parts will fit. Every time.

Our large selection of dental printing materials are designed to get the most out of SprintRay 3D printers. Developed and tested for market-leading performance, SprintRay resins are built to achieve equivalent or superior results while providing excellent value for money.

SprintRay Die and Model Resin is designed for making accurate, removable dies and various models including orthodontic, study, and models for all restorative applications. The material’s color makes it easy to see fine detail, while its great accuracy allows for tight tolerances for removable parts.

SprintRay Die and Model Resin is designed for making accurate, removable dies and various models including orthodontic, study, and models for all restorative applications. The material’s color makes it easy to see fine detail, while its great accuracy allows for tight tolerances for removable parts.

Digital dentures can reduce the number of appointments required for denture placement. SprintRay’s biocompatible try-in material can be rapidly printed to check bite registration and occlusion of dentures. This material can be printed monolithic or as a baseplate combined with individual tooth setup for maximum flexibility.