• SensAble Dental Lab System

    By sway Posted on 10.28.2008 Comments

    With the SensAble Dental Lab System, fashioning a made-to-order restoration is as easy as waving a wand—literally. Instead of painstakingly carving a wax mold to get the framework’s form right, technicians sculpt a digital model of the mouth onscreen using a haptic pen that simulates the feel of real wax. A 3-D printer then produces a resin prototype, which is cast in metal for insertion, all in half the time of conventional methods. sensable.com


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