Summary: Dentsply Sirona’s Primeprint Splint ST and SF resins offer dental professionals a precise, biocompatible, and streamlined solution for retainer manufacturing using the Primeprint Solution. With customizable flexibility and an efficient workflow, these resins simplify appliance production while meeting high-quality standards.

Key Takeaways:

  • Precision and Flexibility: Primeprint Splint ST and SF resins offer tailored flexibility and biocompatibility for patient-specific retainers.
  • Efficient Workflow: The automated Primeprint Solution ensures fast, high-quality production with minimal manual labor.

Dental resins Primeprint Splint ST and Primeprint Splint SF are now available for retainer manufacturing, Dentsply Sirona announced. These dental resins are FDA-cleared and CE-marked for multiple treatment uses such as repositioners, mouthguards, and nightguards.

Designed for Dentsply Sirona’s Primeprint Solution

Specifically designed for use with Dentsply Sirona’s Primeprint Solution, a highly automated, end-to-end, medical-grade 3D printing system, Primeprint Splint ST and Primeprint SF resins offer a solution for dentists and dental technicians looking to enhance or expand their service offerings. Dental professionals can also add retainers to their in-office printing workflows.

Transparent printing with Primeprint Splint ST and SF resins delivers precision and biocompatibility and is designed for creating patient-specific retainers with minimal manual labor.

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Tailored to Patient Needs

With wall thickness starting at 0.8 mm, the Primeprint Splint ST and SF resins offer different degrees of hardness and flexibility to accommodate the unique needs of each patient case. Primeprint Splint ST combines medium flexibility with medium hardness, while Primeprint Splint SF provides high flexibility and low hardness, enabling a comfortable fit and necessary support for patients requiring more flexibility in their appliances.

Both resins are free of harmful substances MMA, THF-MA, and TPO, and have a neutral taste and scent. The post-processing results of these resins yield shiny and transparent outcomes, reducing the need for manual polishing.

Streamlined Additive Manufacturing Workflow

According to Dentsply Sirona, they offer dental professionals an easy and delegable additive manufacturing workflow. The process starts with a scan, either with Primescan, Primescan 2, or a third-party scanner. From there, dental professionals have the flexibility to design their own appliances using inLab CAD Software, order designs from DS Core Create, or utilize their preferred dental lab.

When utilizing DS Core Create design services, the splint design is provided as a ready-to-print file within a turnaround time of six hours. After the design and the print file are ready, final steps involve automated printing and post-processing using Dentsply Sirona’s Primeprint Solution and manual finishing to ensure high-quality splints.