Walk into a dental lab, and you will find a wide range of thermoforming sheets on the shelf. Some are stiff and crystal clear. Others are flexible, almost rubbery. Some are laminated from more than on...Read more
Multilayer aligner sheets are easy to describe. Two or more polymer layers are combined to form into a single sheet, each layer contributes ...Read more
Starting a dental lab today means working with more than just traditional tools and materials. With digital dentistry becoming a regular par...Read more
Price is usually one of the things a dental lab looks at when evaluating a material. When production involves hundreds or thousands of units...Read more
Thermoforming is one of those steps in aligner manufacturing that can look really simple. A sheet of material goes into a machine; it is hea...Read more
To someone outside a dental lab, a 3D printed orthodontic model can look like a finished product the moment it comes off the printer. The sh...Read more
Ask most lab owners what a remake costs, and they will probably point at the sheet. That is understandable, but it is also only part of the ...Read more
You must have been thinking about why the thermoforming sheet acts so differently after it is placed inside the thermoforming machine; this ...Read more
Optical clarity and color stability are often used interchangeably when discussing clear aligners. But they are not the same property. One d...Read more