this is pretty amazing and daring.
I guess this would work better with those with gaps or very mildly crowded teeth.
Often crowded teeth result in pulling teeth to make room.
I made my own clear plastic tooth aligners and they worked
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#22This is really amazing, man. It's honestly the first 3D printing application I've seen that I can see quickly improving thousands of lives. Just to think of all the people who right now can't afford this procedure, that soon will be able to... it's just really wonderful.
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#23This is just amazing. I was waiting for how it might go horribly wrong, but the guy's mouth looks great.
Looks like quite a bit of an overbite, though.
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#24Now that is awesome--those things aren't cheap. I'm going to send this to my dentist (who's cool enough to appreciate it).
they're not, but this blog post made it seem like they're worth the money.
I don't know how I feel about this post. I don't know if I can consider it a diy project when he has access to equipment beyond the reach of most ppl. if I had access to an orthodontist lab and build my own retainer using their equipment is that considered diy?
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#25Now that is awesome--those things aren't cheap. I'm going to send this to my dentist (who's cool enough to appreciate it).
It has not once in my life occurred to me to email my dentist.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was the article: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2015/02/01/a-trip-to-th... I went with smilecareclub. They're pretty hands-off but it gets the job done and is a good value
I wonder how this works, they added brackets on my teeth that act as anchors. Definitely worth the try, I believe that I paid 3k for my treatments, this is ~600. Amazing
They do not add brackets / anchors but they do use a straight-across aligned as opposed to a more trimmed "scalloped" aligner. The straight across gets a bit more turning force because it goes higher up and covers a bit of your gums. I'm no expert so I don't know if that's the whole story. They definitely filter out people with more complicated alignment issues so that could play a role as well.
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#27He scans his teeth, animates how he wants them to move in blender, and then 3D prints each frame. That is absolutely brilliant.
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#28Awesome work!
The animation definitely seems the most difficult (and subjective), but also the most cool! Body hacking via computed geometry!
Invisalign (align technology) uses almost the same workflow. Market cap $5.89B.
If you could move the workflow over to something based on WebGL / three.js - you could make this accessible to dentists in developing countries. Could be an awesome open source project.
I think "allowing" it to be used in the US would open yourself up to too much liability though :(
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#30Now that is awesome--those things aren't cheap. I'm going to send this to my dentist (who's cool enough to appreciate it).
they're not, but this blog post made it seem like they're worth the money. I don't know how I feel about this post. I don't know if I can consider it a diy project when he has access to equipment beyond the reach of most ppl. if I had access to an orthodontist lab and build my own retainer using their equipment is that considered diy?
I don't think equipment access makes or breaks a diy project. As long as you did-it-yourself, it's diy.