Lucitone Digital IPN 3D Premium Tooth
Overview
Lucitone Digital IPN™ 3D Premium Tooth resin is now available for Carbon M Series printers to produce teeth for dentures. When paired with Lucitone Digital Print™ 3D Denture Base, you can create complete denture appliances with DLS.
Lucitone Digital IPN 3D Premium Tooth resin comes in the following shades: A1, A2, A3, A3.5, B1, BL3, C1, & C2. Ten additional shades (A4, B2, B3, B4, BL1, C3, C4, D2, D3, & D4) will be released on a rolling basis.
This guide will cover the preparation of your digital denture teeth models to adequately prepare them for printing with Lucitone Digital IPN™ 3D Premium Tooth resin.
This resin is compatible with the AO Polishing Cassette. Follow the link to learn about specific post-processing requirements.
See AO Polishing Cassette Workflow for post-processing information specific to the AO Polishing Cassette.
Resource Links
Protocol
This downloadable handout provides important usage information, including instructions about storage and post-processing. Print it out and bring it into the lab!
Dental Post-Processing Grids
One of our most popular downloads! This table provides washing and curing instructions for all supported dental resins.
Print it and use it in the lab as a quick reference.
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General Orientation & Support Information
Hide the Platform
Use Toggle platform (or press B) to hide the platform before orienting parts. This will make it easier to see overhangs and place supports.
Use Patch Tool to Create Supports
Patch tool
- The Patch tool speeds up support creation by automatically supporting an area with just a few clicks. It is useful for supporting larger areas of overhang that would take longer to support manually.
- It is often useful to support your parts with this tool before manually adding supports.
Review Supports in Printer UI course for more information.
Orientation
Anterior Teeth
Setup
- Orient the 2 anterior sections so the root side is facing the platform.
- Position the camera so you are looking straight down on the platform:
- Push the Reset camera icon in the lower-left corner of the screen to return to the default view.
- Push ▲ to look straight down at platform.
- Adjust the sections so they are mostly parallel with the front edge of the platform (X-Axis).
- Make sure that the lingual region of each section is facing the lower portion of the screen.
Final Orientation
- Enter 45 into the X Axis field.
- The lingual side of the teeth sections will rotate 45 degrees toward the platform.
- Alternately, click on the X axis loop and rotate the teeth 45 degrees. See Manually Adjust Orientation for more information.
Posterior Teeth
- Orient the 2 anterior sections so the root side is facing the platform.
- Position the camera so you are looking straight down on the platform:
- Push the Reset camera icon in the lower left corner of the screen to return to the default view.
- Push ▲ to look straight down at platform.
- Adjust the sections so they are mostly parallel with the side edges of the platform (Y-Axis).
- Orient the sections so the occlusal surfaces are roughly parallel with the platform.
- Enter 20 into the X-Axis field.
- The lingual side of the teeth sections will rotate 20 degrees toward the platform.
- Alternately, click on the X axis loop and rotate the teeth 20 degrees. See Manually Adjust Orientation for more information.
Full Arches
- The arch should be roughly parallel with the platform.
- Because full arches are organic surfaces with no well defined flat areas, we do not recommend using Snap to Platform.
- Make sure that the anterior region of the arch is facing the upper portion of the screen.
- Enter 30 into the X Axis field.
- The lingual side of the teeth sections will rotate 30 degrees toward the platform.
- Alternately, click on the X axis loop and rotate the teeth 30 degrees. See Manually Adjust Orientation for more information.
Supporting
Enter Support Mode
- Click Support in the dark gray bar.
- Under Position, select Above Platform to lift parts off the platform.
- Make sure Patch is selected.
Note: Do not use Automatic supports. This will create bar supports that leave large nubs on tooth surfaces and do not provide adequate accuracy.
Remember to turn off the platform using Toggle Platform (or press B). This will make it much easier to see the underside of the parts.
Anterior and Posterior Teeth
- Click on the basal side of the teeth to be supported.
- The patch settings will now appear in the right menu.
- Set Overhang Angle to 50 degrees.
- Set Primary Support Fill Type to Boundary Fence Only.
- If needed, continue clicking on remaining basal surfaces until all overhangs are selected. Green indicates current selection and light purple shows previous selection(s).
- Click Generate All to create the supports.
Well Supported Examples
Anterior
Posterior
Full Arches
- Click on the basal side of the teeth to be supported.
- The patch settings will now appear in the right menu.
- Set Overhang Angle to 50 degrees.
- Set Primary Support Fill Type to Bar (default).
- Set Spacing to 5 mm (default).
- Make sure Boundary Fence is checked (default).
- Set Margin to 0 mm (default).
- Continue clicking on remaining basal surfaces until all overhangs are selected. Green indicates current selection and light purple shows previous selection(s).
- Click Generate All to create the supports.
Well Supported Example
Intaglio
Lingual
Nesting
- Select the Layout tab (Shift + L) in the top menu bar.
- Under Auto Layout, select Gen2.
- Gen2 usually gives the most effecient packing for dental devices.
- Enter at least 1 mm in Padding.
- Models require a minimum of 1 mm of space between them.
- Leave Optimize starting rotation unchecked.
- This leaves your parts in their previous orientations.
- Leave Allowed rotations at the default setting.
- This gives the software maximum flexibility to fit the most possible parts on the build platform.
- Press the Auto Layout button to arrange your parts.
If necessary, nesting can be changed manually:
- Click and drag parts to adjust their position.
- Modify Z rotation by using the Spin tool or manual rotations under the Orient tab (Shift + O).
- Use the Part List tab as needed to more easily select models and focus on them.
Print Preparation
Print Controls
Click Print Controls or Shift + P in the top menu bar.
Slicing
Select Standard (50 µ).
This setting also applies to prints made with the AO Polishing Cassette.
Carbon has only validated 50 µ slice thickness for this resin.
Project Analysis
- Select the Project Analysis tab.
- Click Start Analysis and wait for the processing to complete.
- Note the required resin volume and print time.
- Click Add to Queue.
Manufacturer Instructions for Use
Questions & Support
For questions about the resin properties, printing, washing or curing your denture teeth, please contact the Dentsply Sirona technical team:
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: 1-844-848-0137
For questions about your Carbon printer or Carbon software settings used for this resin, please contact Carbon:
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone:
- U.S. and Canada 1-650-285-6307 option 2
- Germany +49 6102 5790849
- UK +44 (0) 2082 647484
- Printer UI: On the dashboard, select the Prints tab. Select one of the printed projects. Click Request Help in the lower right corner.
