Rapid Prototyping in Dentisrty

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Rapid prototyping in dentistry: technology and application ABSTRACT: Dental care and dental treatments have become very common these days and as per a survey around 500 million dental visits are made each year by 66% of the total US population. Almost all dental treatments involve a cascade of steps that are needs to be carried out with high level of accuracy to avoid failure of prosthesis because of some manual or technical error. With the introduction of Rapid prototyping there is more scope of procuring more complex parts with comparatively minimum technology and skill with high accuracy and very less error. Rapid prototyping although initially developed to be implemented in industries that manufacture turbines, surgical equipment and aerospace parts. Now some researchers have seen the advantages of Rapid prototyping used in dental applications. In this review paper an effort is made to learn to the scope of implementing different rapid prototyping processes that can be used in dental applications by studying the some researches that are taking place regarding this. INTRODUCTION: Prosthetic dentistry is a branch of dentistry that is specialty concerned with the making of artificial replacements for missing parts of the mouth and jaw. Everyday prosthodontics involves cascade of steps that are needs to be carried out with high level of accuracy to avoid failure of prosthesis because of some manual or technical error. So this process is highly technique sensitive and time consuming. After the introduction of Computer Aided Designing (CAD), and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) and laser technology revolution has happened in the field of manufacturing technology which was known as Rapid prototyping (RP). The aim of RP is to create products within shorter time, and with more accuracy without human errors. WHAT IS RAPID PROTOTYPING? Rapid prototyping (RP) is
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