Over Fourth Of July weekend I managed to crack my tooth on a peach pit. For the record, it was a really nice and juicy Georgia peach that didn’t mean any harm. And even though it’s likely to be the most expensive peach I will ever eat, the dark cloud showed it’s silver lining when I learned that my crown was going to be 3D Printed!
As for the process, it was pretty cool minus the drilling! But once my actual tooth was ground into a little nub where the crown could attach, my dentist took a series of 3D images and that is when the fun began. The images appeared on a screen and my dentist used a trackball to mark the space where my crown would sit for sizing. I am assuming that the computer was programed to know what shape and details the crown would have based upon which tooth it was, because it looked like a tooth after it was formed.
I asked so many questions that my dentist brought me back to the machine and let me video it! Enjoy, and beware PEACH PITS!
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To be fair, this isn’t 3D printing. This is nothing but a computer controlled milling machine, which has been around for a very long time.