Lucitone Digital Print 3D Denture Base
Lucitone Digital Print 3D Denture Base is now available to produce denture bases. The material is a durable, biocompatible resin that produces premium dentures.
The following shades are available:
- Light
- Light Reddish Pink
- Original
- Original Opaque
- Dark Reddish Pink
This resin is compatible with the AO Polishing Cassette.
When using the AO Polishing Cassette, denture bases must be oriented with the posterior at the platform and supported accordingly.
There are two options to properly prepare your denture bases for printing:
- manually
This guide provides instruction for manual preparation first so that the technician understands what a properly oriented and supported base looks like.
Denture bases can be oriented two different ways:
- Anterior facing the platform
- Posterior facing the platform
Both orientations result in good part quality. So technicians can choose which option they prefer.
After describing manual preparation, this course will cover automatic preparation using the Auto Nest Dentures tool.
Please note that it is crucial that you read and understand the manual preparation method so that you evaluate the output of the Auto-Nest tool to ensure proper orientation and supports before starting a build.
Click Overhang Detection button (V key) to find areas that need support.
- Set the angle to 30 degrees.
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.
- Use patches to create supports for the anterior facial region.
Fence tool
- Fence supports are manually placed by the user and are best suited where precision is required. They are best used on linear overhangs or smaller areas.
- Fences provide stability while leaving smaller nubs than the default Bars option.
- Fences are used along the lingual and buccal edges for lower dentures and along lingual edges on upper dentures. In some cases, fences are needed on bars or the posterior edges of upper dentures.
Sometimes an error will occur when you try to generate a new fence.
If this happens, the points will turn pink and an error message will appear.
Try making multiple shorter fences or try adding the fence in a slightly different place.
Review Supports in Printer UI course for more information.
Once you have chosen the printer, you must create a new project.
- Click NEW PROJECT.
- You can also drag your files from a file browser window and drop it on top of the NEW PROJECT icon.
- Enter a new Project name.
- In the Resin dropdown, select Lucitone Digital Print.
- Toggle Auto nest dentures OFF.
- Only use Encrypt project if you want to require a password to access the project.
- Note: Carbon cannot provide support for encrypted projects.
- Drag and drop your files into the dotted box or click Browse your files and select them in a file browser window.
- Click Create.
- After a few moments you will see the main printer interface with your dentures on the platform.
Proper orientation of bases is critical to achieve the required accuracy. Failure to orient denture bases according to these instructions may impact accuracy and part quality.
Anterior at platform orientation is not valid for printing with the AO Polishing Cassette.
LOWER DENTURE BASE
- 65-degree tilt with posterior rotated away from platform.
- Tissue side faces platform.
- Anterior touches the platform.
UPPER DENTURE BASE
- 70-degree tilt with posterior rotated away from platform.
- Tissue side faces platform.
- Anterior touches the platform.
Tip: The LOWER denture base gets the LOWER angle.
Minimize footprint
- Click Orient or press Shift + o in the main bar in the printer software.
- Click Minimize Footprint button. This will orient the base roughly perpendicular to the platform.
Manually lay the denture flat
- Orient the denture base so that the tissue side is flat against the platform.
- Click on the denture to select it.
- Hover over the Y axis loop. It will turn green.
- Click and hold on the axis loop and rotate until the denture is roughly parallel to the platform. Change views as needed until the denture is positioned.
- Hold Shift while rotating to move in 45 degree increments.
- Make sure the denture is selected.
- Click on the axis loop and rotate the denture into place.
- The anterior of each denture should be touching the platform.
For lower denture bases, rotate 65 degrees
For upper denture bases, rotate 70 degrees.
Your denture bases are now properly oriented and ready to be supported.
Do not put supports on intaglio surfaces.
Before starting, optimize the interface for adding fences
- Click Toggle Platform button in the lower tool bar or press the B key to hide the platform. This will enable better visibility during fence creation.
- Click Overhang Detection button (V key)to find areas that need support.
- Set the angle to 30 degrees.
- Click Supports in the dark gray bar.
- Under Part Position, select Above to create room between the platform and the part.
- Click the Manual tab and select Fence.
- Leave the Support Attributes at the default values.
- Support the edges of the dentures with the Fence tool.
- Add supports to the dark red areas on edges indicated by the Overhang Detection tool.
- Upper dentures
- Outer/buccal edge
- Posterior edge
- Lower dentures
- Inner/lingual
- Outer/buccal edges
- On outer/buccal edges, support at least the width of the 6 anterior teeth.
- Click a series of points along the edge to define the fence. Add fences to the darkest red areas.
- Click Esc key on keyboard to end a fence and begin another.
- Hold down the E key and click with the mouse to reposition points.
- Click Generate All to create the fence geometry. This may take a few minutes.
Although upper dentures do not have an inner edge, they may require supports along the posterior edge to ensure proper accuracy.
- Click a series of points along the edge to define the fence.
- Click Esc key on keyboard to end a fence and begin another.
- Hold down the E key and click with the mouse to reposition points.
- Click Generate All to create the fence geometry. This may take a few minutes.
- Click a series of points along the edge to define the fence.
- Click Esc key on keyboard to end a fence and begin another.
- Hold down the E key and click with the mouse to reposition points.
- Click Generate All to create the fence geometry. This may take a few minutes.
Sometimes an error will occur when you try to generate a new fence.
If this happens, the points will turn pink and an error message will appear.
Try making multiple shorter fences or try adding the fence in a slightly different place.
The areas below tooth pockets must be supported using the Fence tool.
- Support both upper and lower dentures.
- Be sure to support the papillae (triangular area between teeth).
- Support under all pockets that have overhangs indicated in red.
- Adding supports in tooth pockets is discouraged as it may require additional finishing and may affect tooth fit.
Upper Denture
Lower Denture
- Click a series of points along the bottom surface of the bars to define the fence.
- Click Esc key on keyboard to end a fence and begin another.
- Hold down the E key and click with the mouse to reposition points.
- Click Generate All to create the fence geometry. This may take a few minutes.
T-bars will typically not need supports.
The outer anterior area is typically a large overhang that requires dense fence supports. This area is best supported with the Patch support tool. This is required for both upper and lower dentures. The example pictured below is an upper denture.
- While in the Supports menu, click the Manual tab and select Patch.
- Click in the large overhang on the anterior of the upper base. A green patch will appear.
- Under Support Attributes click Primary Support Type and select Fence.
- In the Spacing box, type 3.5 mm.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the Supports menu and turn Boundary Fence on.
- Adjust the Overhang slider until the highlighted overhang areas are covered by the green patch. Typically this will be between 35 and 45 degrees.
- Click Generate All.
See a demonstration of using the Patch tool in the video below.
Use the images below as a reference for well supported upper and lower dentures.
Proper orientation of bases is critical to achieve the required accuracy. Failure to orient denture bases according to these instructions may impact accuracy and part quality.
Posterior at platform orientation must be used for printing with the AO Polishing Cassette.
UPPER AND LOWER DENTURE BASES
- 70-degree tilt with anterior rotated away from platform.
- Tissue side faces platform.
- Posterior touches the platform.
Minimize footprint
- Click Orient or press Shift + O in the main bar in the printer software.
- Click Minimize Footprint button. This will orient the base roughly perpendicular to the platform.
Manually lay the denture flat
- Orient the denture base so that the tissue side is flat against the platform.
- Click on the denture to select it.
- Hover over the Y axis loop. It will turn green.
- Click and hold on the axis loop and rotate until the denture is roughly parallel to the platform. Change views as needed until the denture is positioned.
- Hold Shift while rotating to move in 45 degree increments.
- Make sure the denture is selected.
- Click on the axis loop and rotate the denture into place.
- The posterior of each denture should be touching the platform.
- Rotate the anterior of each denture base up and away from the platform 70 degrees.
Your denture bases are now properly oriented and ready to be supported.
Be sure to set Part Position to ABOVE before you begin adding supports.
Supports are required on the following areas:
- denture base edges (fence supports)
- crossbars (fence supports)
- overhanging cameo surfaces (patch supports)
Do not put supports on intaglio surfaces.
Support the edges of the denture bases with the Fence tool.
For All Edges
- Click a series of points along the edge to define the fence.
- Click Esc key on keyboard to end a fence and begin another.
- Hold down the E key and click with the mouse to reposition points.
- Click Generate All to create the fence geometry. This may take a few minutes.
Support upper and lower crossbars with the Fence tool.
- Click a series of points along the bottom surface of the bars to define the fence.
- Click Esc key on keyboard to end a fence and begin another.
- Hold down the E key and click with the mouse to reposition points.
- Click Generate All to create the fence geometry. This may take a few minutes.
Support larger overhangs on cameo surfaces with the Patch support tool. The example pictured is a lower denture.
- While in the Supports menu, click the Manual tab and select Patch.
- Click in the large overhang on the anterior of the upper base. A green patch will appear.
- Under Support Attributes click Primary Support Type and select Fence.
- In the Spacing box, type 3.5 mm.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the Supports menu and make sure Boundary Fence is on.
- Adjust the Overhang slider until the highlighted overhang areas are covered by the green patch. Typically this will be between 35 and 45 degrees.
- Click Generate All.
Use the images below as a reference for well supported upper and lower dentures.
UPPER DENTURE
LOWER DENTURE
Click Print Controls or Shift + P in the top menu bar.
Set Slice Thickness to Standard (100 µm).
Reducing the slice thickness will increase print time and may reduce part quality and accuracy.
- Select the Project Analysis tab.
- Click Start Analysis and wait for the processing to complete.
- Note the required resin volume and print time.
- Under Blank Slices check to be sure there are no blank slices.
- If blank slices are detected, the models may need to be exported to an .stl repair program.
- 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