Lucitone Digital IPN 3D Premium Tooth
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.
Review Supports in Printer UI course for more information.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Anterior
Posterior
- 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.
Intaglio
Lingual
Click Print Controls or Shift + P in the top menu bar.
Select Standard (50 µ).
Carbon has only validated 50 µ slice thickness for this resin.
- 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.
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