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Article: LASER-SINTERING ENABLES AUTOMATED MANUFACTURE OF CROWNS/BRIDGES.
- Article from:
- Biotech Equipment Update
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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One particular sector of the rapidly growing healthcare industry is expanding even further: the market for dental implants. It is indisputable that even with the best of dental hygiene, nearly everyone will at some point or other need a dental implant of some sort. Cost consciousness, especially in the type of difficult economic circumstances that we are currently experiencing, is increasing all the more. There are already automated processing centers producing individual dental implants of the highest accuracy out of EOS CobaltChrome SP2, a biocompatible and CE- certified material, with e-Manufacturing using laser-sintering. This cost-effective method of making dental ...