Trusted Global Leaders in Dental 3D Printing and Software Join Forces to Ease Adoption of Quality Digital Dentures

• EnvisionTEC was the first to market with a complete 3D printed digital
  denture solution
• AvaDent is the leader in easy-to-use software and design services for
  digital dentures
• More than 40% of all dentures are estimated to be created digitally by
  2024

DEARBORN, Mich. & SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#3dprinting–EnvisionTEC, the global leader in dental 3D printers and materials, and
AvaDent Digital Dental Solutions, the global leader in digital dentures,
today announced a new partnership.

Working together, the two companies now offer a complete digital
workflow solution for digital dentures, from impressions and digital
design to try-in and final restoration.

A provider of high-accuracy dental 3D printers since 2008, EnvisionTEC
launched the first FDA-approved full denture solution for 3D printing in
2017. AvaDent, meanwhile, offers easy-to-use digital denture software
and design services to dental professionals, so prosthetics can be
quickly manufactured through milling or 3D printing, with more than
100,000 dentures created.

“While 3D printing a full denture on our 3D printers is easy, digitally
designing a denture can be complicated. That’s why we’re so excited to
work with AvaDent, which offers easy-to-use software and delivers a
tested workflow to labs and dentists,” said EnvisionTEC CEO Al Siblani.

“We see an immediate opportunity for labs and clinicians to begin 3D
printing try-in dentures and final restorations, alongside the many
other dental applications offered by 3D printers,” added Jan Slor, VP
and General Manager of Global Dental Science LLC, which owns Avadent.

EnvisionTEC’s FDA-approved E-Denture pink base material and E-Dent 100
and 400 materials that simulate teeth in a variety of shades means
laboratories and dentists can now 3D print lifelike dentures with a
custom, digital fit directly in their office. When used on a versatile
EnvisionTEC Vida desktop 3D printer, dentists can also directly print
crowns, bridges, bite splints, gingiva masks and castables.

AvaDent offers a suite of digital denture services including base
plates, bonded dentures, monolithic dentures, hybrid dentures,
overdentures, pucks and print files. Customers can scan impressions and
send the scan files to the company, which designs a digital denture with
proprietary Computer Aided Engineering technology and sends the design
file to the customer. Dentists and labs can do the manufacturing of the
prosthesis on their own mills or 3D printers — or outsource that work to
AvaDent.

The new collaboration will be on display this week at LMT Lab Day
Chicago 2018, where the companies will be exhibiting and working
together to educate labs, dentists and patients on the benefits of
digital dentures, which are regarded as the most difficult dental
prosthetic to manufacture because of complex fit, bite and aesthetic
requirements.

Digital dentures also offer unique benefits. For example, if a digital
denture is lost it can easily be recreated within a couple of days using
the digital file that was created and stored. AvaDent estimates that
more than 40% of new dentures will be made digitally by 2024, with an
increasing number being produced directly on 3D printers rather than
mills. It is estimated that more than two-third of dental labs already
use a 3D printer in their manufacturing processes.

In celebration of their new relationship, EnvisionTEC and AvaDent will
be offering a Digital Denture special at LMT Lab Day Chicago that
includes significant discounts on an EnvisionTEC Vida and AvaDent
software packages. EnvisionTEC is located in booths A-43 and B-42, while
AvaDent is located in A-5.

About EnvisionTEC

EnvisionTEC is a leading global provider of professional-grade 3D
printing solutions. Founded in 2002 with its pioneering commercial DLP
printing technology, EnvisionTEC now sells more than 40 printers based
on six distinct technologies that build objects from digital design
files. The company’s premium 3D printers serve a variety of medical,
professional and industrial markets, and are valued for precision,
surface quality, functionality and speed. EnvisionTEC’s intellectual
property includes more than 140 pending and granted patents. Learn more
at EnvisionTEC.com.

About AvaDent

AvaDent Digital Dental Solutions, whose product line includes AvaDent
Digital Dentures, is owned by Global Dental Science LLC (GDS), a dental
innovations company dedicated to improving dental procedures and
outcomes through Process Automation. GDS world headquarters is located
at 15730 North 83rd Way, Scottsdale, AZ 85260. For additional
information call 855-AVADENT (282-3368) or go to www.avadent.com

Contacts

EnvisionTEC
Sarah A. Webster, +1-313-888-4460
swebster@envisiontec.com