Summary: Solventum has launched 3M Clarity Precision Grip Attachments for 3M Clarity Aligners, addressing challenges in aligner treatment with accurately shaped, durable, and stain-resistant attachments. Using 3D-printing, the attachments are customized for each patient, eliminating variability and enhancing treatment outcomes.

Key Takeaways:

  • Improved Accuracy and Consistency: The attachments address issues of misplacement and variability, ensuring predictable treatment forces.
  • Innovative Material and Process: 3D-printed, stain-resistant attachments improve durability and hygiene, offering a superior alternative to traditional methods.

Solventum, formerly 3M Health Care, has officially launched 3M Clarity Precision Grip Attachments. Available exclusively with 3M Clarity Aligners, Clarity Precision Grip Attachments are designed to solve one of the biggest challenges with aligner treatment – creating durable, accurately shaped, stain-resistant attachments.

“With the launch of Clarity Precision Grip Attachments, Solventum aims to solve what matters to our customers and change the course of aligner treatment for good,” said Karim Mansour, president, Dental Solutions, Solventum. “We are driven to deliver leading innovations to the dental market and support our customers in creating the beautiful, healthy smiles patients want.”

Addressing Aligner Treatment Challenges

Clarity Precision Grip Attachments aim to eliminate the technique-sensitive, time-consuming attachment creation process that can introduce variability into treatment. Misplaced and malformed attachments resulting from the conventional approach can produce different forces than predicted in a treatment plan. Clarity Precision Grip Attachments are designed to be accurately positioned, precisely shaped, and designed to reduce this risk.

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Advanced Design to Prevent Issues

The procedure for Clarity Precision Grip Attachments is also made to eliminate the risk that an overfilled template could result in residual cured composite flash on the tooth by relying on alternative bonding agents. Composite flash may attract stains, harbor plaque, and inhibit engagement between the aligner and attachment.

Benefits of 3D-Printing Technology

The 3D-printing manufacturing approach for Clarity Precision Grip Attachments lends other benefits to the product offering, according to Solventum. The resulting attachments are customized to fit each patient’s unique tooth anatomy, and the combination of inorganic filler and organic resin, paired with post-processing techniques, allows the 3D printed attachments to be durable and more stain-resistant than leading composites used with current attachment procedures.

Clarity Precision Grip Attachments can be added to Clarity Aligners cases on Oral Care Portal.

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