Iverson Dental Labs Reveals Statasys’ 3-D Printers Greatly Improves Dental Manufacturing Processes

Iverson Dental Laboratories, a provider of dental laboratory services to North America, has announced its latest collaboration with Statasys Ltd. and their cutting-edge 3-Dimensional Printers to create the most accurate dental models and dental lab products the industry has seen yet. Statasys is a world leader in creating 3-D printing systems and materials for various industries including the dental industry. All Stratasys’ systems use PolyJet™ materials to create accurate, clean, smooth and highly detailed 3-D models.

Recently, Iverson Dental Lab’s President Cody Iverson and a representative from Statasys Ltd., Jeff Youngman C.D.T., held a webinar on how 3-D printers are improving the workflow within the dental lab and manufacturing process of high quality dental lab products. They discussed the many advantages of 3D printing and how 3D printing is redefining the dental laboratory industry to ensure not only highly accurate dental models and other dental parts, but also mass-produce them at a faster rate than they ever have before. Cody Iverson reveals in the webinar how his dental lab team has applied 3-D printing to their daily production to increase productivity and acute accuracy for dental products. Iverson utilizes Stratasys highly durable PolyJet™ materials to print various types of dental lab products including dental models, surgical guides, removable partial frames, diagnostic wax-ups, all-on-4 tryins and more.

“We believe in utilizing the latest technologies to ensure that our level of dental lab services and products improves with technology, making us a leader amongst digital dental labs. With Stratasys’ 3D printing technology in-house, we are able to mass-produce highly accurate and excellent quality dental models and other dental lab products at an affordable cost," stated Cody Iverson. Jeff Youngerman added, “What impressed me the most with Cody Iverson and the Iverson team is the way they run their business and how they are not afraid to invest in the technology. It’s proven time and time again to allow them to grow their business. Even as a new user of 3-D printing, he is able to implement it into his daily production and not only run with conventional methods and switch them over to digital but also develop new dental products.”

Stratasys’ 3-D printing solutions are an exciting advance for dental technology. Dentists and dental laboratories will electronically submit their dental cases from intraoral impression systems, such as Cerec Connect, to Iverson Dental Laboratories, and the dental models are designed and printed. Printing models, which can be sent as either a digital impression or a physical impression that’s converted to digital, eliminates variables from human error such as inconsistent material in stone models. Designing and printing dental lab products is faster, less labor intensive, and much easier to teach new dental technicians. This new process also reduces shipping costs and improves turnaround times, which adds more value to the services and products dental labs provide to dentists and their patients.

“With challenges facing the dental laboratory industry like high overhead costs due to intensive manual fabrication and decreasing profit margins due to overseas competition, can be overcome when a digital workflow is implemented,” continued Jeff Youngerman. “We can’t be continuing to manufacturing products so labor and skill intensive. There is a need for highly skilled dental technicians that is not meeting the demand today, so it’s the software’s and digital processes that is creating a level of consistency and accuracy that every technician will be able to achieve.”

About Iverson Dental Laboratories

Iverson Dental Laboratories is a full service dental lab and leader in dental implants, cosmetic dentistry and digital dentistry. Dentists can utilize Iverson’s onsite operatory and training facility on intraoral impression digital technologies to enhance their practice. Being a leader in Digital Dentistry, Iverson strives to make the transition from a conventional workflow to an advanced, digital workflow as seamless as possible. Iverson Dental Laboratories was founded in 1991 and is based in Riverside, Calif., USA.

About Statasys Ltd.

Stratasys Ltd., the innovation leader in 3-Dimensional printing, provides 3-D printing systems that enable manufacturers and industrial designers to reduce costs of product development. Manufacturers use Stratasys 3-D printers to create models and prototypes for new product design and testing, and to build finished goods in low volume. Stratasys’ ultra-thin-layer, high-resolution 3-D printing systems and materials utilize PolyJet™ and PolyJet Matrix™ polymer jetting technologies to print ultra-thin layers. Stratasys offers FDM and PolyJet 3D printers, FDM for durable thermoplastic parts that withstand tough testing, and PolyJet for precise models that look and feel like the final product.