Piocreat & Pionext Unveils Advanced Dental Solutions at CDS 2024

We’re thrilled to announce the triumphant showcase of Piocreat & Pionext at the highly regarded Chicago Dental Society (CDS) Midwinter Meeting held from February 22nd to 24th, 2024. Founded on the bedrock of pioneering the future of dental technology, piocreat has been steadfast in our commitment to redefining dental solutions through the relentless pursuit of R&D, production, and the distribution of top-tier 3D printers designed explicitly for dentistry. 

Our participation in the prestigious CDS Midwinter Meeting 2024 not only underlines our dedication but also marks a significant milestone in our journey to revolutionize the dental sector.

The spotlight of this year’s exhibition was the unveiling of the latest masterpiece from piocreat –  such as DJ89 Plus,D150 and D158 dental printer . Accompanied by our state-of-the-art biocompatible dental resin, attendees were offered a firsthand encounter with the future of dentistry. These innovations are conceived with perfection and precision in mind, destined to empower dental professionals to exceed the standards of therapeutic and aesthetic dentistry.

Piocreat & Pionext’s venture into the limelight at the CDS Midwinter Meeting 2024 was not just a display of technological marvels but a testament to our unwavering resolve to infuse the dental sector with agile, efficient, and groundbreaking solutions. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who joined us, sharing in our vision and exploring the vast possibilities that 3D printing holds for dentistry.

The success of PioCreat at the CDS Midwinter Meeting ushers in a new era of dental care, promising an efficient, precise, and personalized approach to dental treatments. For those who couldn’t join us this time, we look forward to connecting with you and introducing you to a world where dental innovations meet exceptional care.

Stay tuned for more exciting developments from Piocreat & Pionext. Together, let’s sculpt the future of dental healthcare, one layer at a time.

Piocreat & Pionext to Ignite Innovation at CDS Midwinter Meeting 2024

Get ready for a 3D printing revolution in the dental industry as PioCreat 3D proudly announces its participation in the CDS Midwinter Meeting 2024.

PioCreat 3D’s offerings result in a lower overall cost of ownership in comparison to major competitors. Our presence at CDS 2024 is your chance to witness firsthand the latest advancements that will shape the future of dental care.

What to Expect from Piocreat at CDS Midwinter Meeting 2024?

  • Machines: Models such as DJ89 Plus 8K LCD 3D printer and D158 surpass rival printers in terms of speed and throughput while maintaining top-tier dimensional precision. With an astonishing print speed of up to 80mm/h, the D150 DLP 3D printer ensures you spend less time waiting and more time creating.
  • Biocompatible dental resin: A portfolio of state-of-the-art dental resins to create products characterized by their robustness, minimal shrinkage, strong biocompatibility, and resistance to wear. This allows users to decrease material consumption and boost output without incurring additional costs.
  • Interactive Showcases: Explore our interactive showcases featuring the latest innovations that are simplifying workflows, enhancing accuracy, and delivering exceptional results in the dental industry.

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Visit Piocreat for more information on our products and solutions. We look forward to welcoming you at CDS Midwinter Meeting 2024!

How to Choose the Best Dental Resin for Dental 3D Printing

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How is 3D printing used in the dental field?

3D printing in the dental field is used for creating various dental products and devices with high precision and speed. Applications include:

Dental Models

Producing accurate models of patients’ mouths, which are used for diagnostics and treatment planning.

Orthodontic

Creating custom aligners, retainers, and other orthodontic devices directly from digital impressions.

Crowns and Bridges

3D printing dental crowns and bridges using materials like ceramics, which provide durability and aesthetic appearance.

Dental Implants and Surgical Guides

Printing surgical guides for dental implants to ensure precise placement and printing of custom dental implants.

Dentures

Fabricating full or partial dentures, allowing for customization and rapid production.

Overall, 3D printing in dentistry enhances customization, reduces turnaround time, and can lower costs while improving patient outcomes.

What is Dental Resin?

In dental 3D printing, dental resin is a type of photopolymeric material that cures (hardens) when exposed to a specific light source, typically ultraviolet (UV) light. These resins are used to create highly detailed and precise three-dimensional objects suitable for dental applications such as crowns, bridges, dentures, orthodontic devices, and surgical guides. Dental resins must be biocompatible, have suitable mechanical properties, and often require regulatory approval for use in patients.
best 3D resin for dental models

Dental Resin for Dental Labs and Orthodontic Practices

PioCreat Dental Resins empower dental labs and orthodontic practices to rapidly manufacture biocompatible surgical guides, splints and models, clear aligner models, and full dentures.

How to Choose the Best Dental Resin for Dental 3D Printing?

Choosing the best dental resin for 3D printing in dentistry involves considering several factors to ensure the material meets clinical requirements and regulations. Here’s a streamlined guide:

1. Biocompatibility: Ensure the resin is biocompatible. It must be safe for intraoral use and should not cause any adverse response in patients.

2. Mechanical Properties: Depending on the dental application (like surgical guides, dental models, crowns, or orthodontic appliances), the resin should have appropriate strength, durability, and wear resistance.

3. Accuracy and Detail: High resolution in resin ensures that the printed dental models or devices accurately reproduce the fine details necessary in dental applications.

4. Color Stability and Esthetics: For prosthetics, look for resins that offer colors matching natural tooth shades and resistance to staining.

5. Certification and Compliance: The resin must comply with local regulatory requirements such as FDA approval in the USA or CE marking in Europe.

6. Print Speed and Ease of Use: Select a resin that provides an optimal balance between print speed and ease of post-processing.

7. Compatibility with Printers: Check if the resin is compatible with your specific 3D printer type (SLA, DLP, or LCD).

8. Vendor Support and Reputation: Choose resins from suppliers with trustful reputations in the industry who provide consistent quality and customer support.

9. Patient-Specific Needs: Consider specific patient needs such as allergies or sensitivities.

10. Cost: Factor in the price, keeping in mind that lower costs should not compromise product quality and patient safety.

Selecting the right dental resin requires a careful combination of these factors tailored to the types of dental applications and devices you plan to produce.

Ortho Model Resin

Specifically formulated for the dental industry, Ortho Model Resin stands as a trusted choice for orthodontic purposes. This biocompatible resin is engineered for compatibility with dental models, It excels with its outstanding print accuracy, heat resistance, substantial hardness, and a silky-smooth finish, all while maintaining the flexibility needed for dental workflows. Its resistance to abrasion contributes to maintaining flawless precision of the models, even after repeated use.

  • High printing speed
  • High edge stability
  • High forming precision
  • High temperature resistant

Temporary Restoration Resin

Temporary Resin is a bio-compatible tooth-colored resin for 3D printing of temporary crown and bridge restorations, inlays, onlays, and veneers. Indicated for up to seven-unit bridges and available in five shades. The material provides greater pressure and impact resistance, wear resistance and corrosion resistance, allowing for excellent marginal adaptation and dimensional stability.

  • Ultra high flexural tensile strength
  • Easy to polish
  • Color selectivity
  • Low water absorption

Surgical Guide Resin

Surgical Guide Resin is a biocompatible material designed specifically for crafting surgical guides. This transparent, Class I resin is perfect for creating precise guide plates essential for implant surgery, as well as orthodontic guides and functional retainers. Developed to facilitate high-precision, implant-guided procedures, Surgical Guide Resin ensures exceptional accuracy and performance.

  • Easy to drill
  • High sharp precision
  • High flexural strength
  • Transparent to see drill position

Dental Casting Resin

PioCreat’s Biocompatible castable resin is expertly formulated for dental casting applications, boasting minimal ash and residue upon burning and excellent casting characteristics. This high-precision resin ensures that even the finest details are sharply defined in print. Additionally, its low shrinkage properties mean that printed models maintain their shape and are less prone to deformation. This makes it an ideal choice for creating intricately detailed 3D printed models that are used for casting metal dental crowns, bridges, and brackets.

  • High precision
  • Good texture
  • Fast process
  • High cost-effectiveness

Denture base resin

Piocreat Denture Resins, which are approved Class II biocompatible materials for 3D printing of digital dentures, offer a unique blend of flexibility and stability. This innovative formula sets a new benchmark for denture manufacturing by integrating durability, visual appeal, and patient comfort. Utilize Denture Base Resin for the creation of durable, wear-resistant, and biocompatible denture bases. This method significantly reduces costs compared to conventional techniques. Furthermore, the resulting dentures are built for extended wear, with a lifespan ranging from 1 to 3 years, ensuring patient satisfaction over the long term.

  • Class II biocompatible
  • Perfect Details
  • Low water absorption
  • Durable

DJ89PLUS – Reliability for Dental and Jewelry Professionals

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Overview

The PioNext DJ89 PLUS from Piocreat is a LCD printer aimed at the dental industry, and as you can see in the image below, it is clear that this is an industrial-grade machine.

DJ89PLUS LCD printer

Featuring a 228 × 128 × 100 mm build envelope, it is ideally sized for orthodontic printing tasks that can be performed chairside.

One of the standout features of the PioNext DJ89 PLUS is its high-resolution capabilities, capable of rendering fine details and smooth surfaces with exceptional clarity. This level of precision is crucial in dentistry, where the accurate replication of anatomical features is paramount for successful clinical outcomes. It achieves this thanks to its 8K (7680 x 4320 px) screen resolution, 29 micron XY accuracy and 8x anti-aliasing. It can print at layer heights of 0.01mm-0.1mm ensuring minimal stepping artifacts on prints.

The DJ89 PLUS features 8x anti-aliasing

User Friendly and Robust

Thanks to its 5-inch color touch screen the PioNext DJ89 PLUS boasts a user-friendly interface, streamlining the printing process and allowing dental practitioners to focus their attention where it matters most – on patient care. Additionally, the PioNext DJ89 PLUS features both auto-leveling and auto-feeding, to facilitate a hassle-free printing experience.

The printer’s robust build quality ensures long-term reliability, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity in dental laboratories and practices. Its durable construction and efficient workflow management make it a valuable asset for any dental facility striving for excellence in patient care. Thanks to its double linear guide and ball screw motion hardware, the rigid structure ensures not only high accuracy in prints, but means the accuracy is consistent time and time again.

Light source technology

Unlike typical parallel light source technology, this innovative advancement achieves a higher level of light uniformity. Traditional parallel light sources project lamp bead light directly onto the LCD screen.

However, this approach often causes repeated block illumination, leading to higher light intensity in specific areas intensified by superposition.Repurposing this drawback, the integrated light features of DJ89PLUS ensures that each light bead evenly illuminates the LCD screen, following the principle of refraction.

Light Uniformity

Combining the benefits of DLP and LCD technology, the PioNext DJ89 PLUS does not suffer from the downsides associated with parallel emission light sources, such as insufficient light uniformity and frequent replacement of light sources.

With its integrated light source technology the PioNext DJ89 PLUS achieves light uniformity up to 95%, and has a lightsource lifespan of 2000 hours, making it a highly cost-effective solution.

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Material Compatibility

Another notable advantage of the PioNext DJ89 PLUS is its versatility in material compatibility. It uses 405nm resins to ensure maximum compatibility. With a wide range of biocompatible resins available, dental professionals have the flexibility to choose the most suitable material for their applications, whether it be for surgical guides, Gingiva masks, orthodontic models, and more.

Pellet 3D Printer Advantages And its Applications

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What is a Pellet 3D Printer?

Simply put, a pellet 3D printer is an innovative machine that harnesses the technology of fused granular fabrication (FGF) to print objects. Instead of the usual filament strands catered for by the majority of 3D printers, pellet 3D printers utilize raw, discrete plastic pellets to propel novelistic prototypes, blazing a trail in print-style sophistries often conveyed in sizeable capacities.

How does Pellet 3D Printing work?

Quite intriguingly, the operational normality behind pellet 3D printing squarely resonates with the popular fused deposition modeling (FDM). The only throaty difference lies in material input; while FDM utilizes filament coils, pellet printers see a handy use of plastic pellets. The printer’s extruder receives these tiny, convenient materials, warms them into a molten form, then duly erects them layer-by-layer to give life to an innovative 3D object.

What materials are used in Pellet 3D Printing?

compatible pellets

Pellet 3D printing reviews versatile rhythm in material admiration. Plastic is dominant, sweeping across recognized options like PLA, ABS, or PETG. More novel materials like TPE, nylon, wood, and even metal composites join the fleet to affirmively gift the artist far-reaching dimensions of practical creativity.

Advantages of Pellet 3D Printing

Material Cost

In pellet 3D printing, cost calibration greatly impresses. Pellets simply cost less than traditional filament strands. This variance, however, expands when dealing with a massive print load often associated with volume production or large-scale projects.

Material Properties

The superior material properties of pellets contribute to numerous functionalities like enhanced print speeds, better quality output, and apt resilience on well-sized parts.

Large-format Printing

When size checks in, pellet 3D printers offer transformative solutions given their capacity for large-format printing. Often free from the perennial problem of spools running out mid-print, large-scale prototypes therefore march out relatively uninhibited.

Material Variety

Pellet 3D Printer excels in processing a wide range of thermoplastics and composites. This flexibility allows for experimenting with various pellets, including PA-CF, PA-GF, PC-CF, PLA, rPLA, PETG-GF, ABS, PS, GPPS, PP-GF, and more.

Pellet 3D Printing Common Applications

Low-volume Manufacturing

3D printing with pellets provides a useful tool for meeting specialized, low-volume needs. It promotes a forward-thinking approach to developing customized solutions, enhancing client satisfaction by focusing on their unique requirements.

Prototyping

From faster prototyping to better support tooling to economical customization and production, additive technology offers time and cost efficiencies while getting products to market faster. Validate ideas faster to arrive at the optimal design before investing in expensive production tooling.

Mold Tooling

From employing vacuum forming to utilizing composite molds, pellet 3D printing offers a quick, cost-effective, and robust method for tooling. Our technology permits manufacturers to produce cost-efficient, custom injection molds using 3D-printed tooling. This allows designers and engineers to conduct more frequent and precise tests of their product,speeding up the product development

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Artistic Installations

The layer-by-layer construction of objects in 3D printing results in unprecedented geometric freedom. Artists now have the capability to create designs with 3D printers, unconcerned about the feasibility of their production.

Whatever can be imagined can be printed, encompassing fields like artistic installations, architecture, or sculpture. Pellet 3D printing technologies further allow for the large-scale printing of fine art and sculptures.

PioCreat Pellet 3d printer

PioCreat 3D has recently launched three types of pellet 3D Printer, marking a substantial enhancement in pellet printing technology. By exploring these innovative machines, it becomes evident how they modernize and accelerate the world of 3D printing:

PioCreat Pellet 3D Printer

Reduced Lead Times

These printers significantly speed up production—with speeds up to ten times faster than traditional filament extrusion 3D printing. The G5Ultra boasts a maximum extrusion volume of 0.8kg per hour, the G12 offers up to 3kg per hour, and the G40 leads the pack with an impressive 25kg per hour, in stark contrast to the 40g to 50g per hour rate of conventional FDM printers. This boost in speed translates to drastically shortened project timelines.

Enhanced Material Quality

PioCreat’s FGF (Fused Granular Fabrication) technology melts plastic pellets directly, which not only preserves the inherent properties of the plastics but also improves the adaptability towards various printing materials. This results in lower material costs and markedly better performance of the parts. Moreover, it eliminates the frequent issue of filament breakage seen in traditional FDM printing. By using original quality materials, printer throughput is optimized and the physical properties of crafted components are significantly elevated.

Environmental Sustainability

The printers encourage environmentally responsible practices by utilizing both pellets and shredded recycled plastics. This not only promotes sustainable manufacturing but also substantially reduces material costs by more than 60%. As a versatile solution, this method facilitates an economically and environmentally beneficial approach across a broad array of applications.

Cost Efficiency

Lastly, using pellet extrusion greatly curtails expenses, where costs are approximately ten times lower compared to filament-based methods. In addition to omitting a processing step in filament creation, the widespread availability and bulk utilization of pellets in industries like injection molding ensure affordability due to a more competitive market.

To Summarize

Pellet 3D printers offer cost-efficiency by using cheaper, raw plastic pellets instead of filaments, aimed at large-scale productions. Their high-throughput capability enables faster printing, while recyclability ensures waste minimization for sustainability. Common applications include automobile, furniture, and prototyping sectors, driving innovations by streamlining production or creating complicated designs.

Industrial Scale Fused Granulate Fabrication – G12 Pellet Printer

G12 Overview

At its core, the G12 pellet 3d printer leverages FGF technology where material is extruded layer by layer to create intricate three-dimensional objects. However, unlike FDM printers that rely on filaments, the G12 utilizes plastic pellets as its primary feedstock. This distinction is pivotal as it significantly reduces production costs by eliminating the need for filament production processes.

Industrial Pellet 3D Printers

The G12 boasts impressive specifications, featuring a substantial printing size of 1200 x 1000 x 1000 mm, providing ample space for large-scale projects. Equipped with a single screw nozzle design, the printer ensures uniform extrusion force, facilitating high-quality prints with precision and consistency across various materials.

With a nozzle temperature reaching up to 450°C and a bed temperature of ≤130°C, the G12 accommodates a diverse range of materials, including PLA, PETG, ABS, TPU, and composite materials. The G12 can print with a slice thickness ranging from a minute 0.2 right through to a chunky 1.5mm, and can use nozzles ranging from 0.6~4mm diameter, allowing for fine details, or large flow rates (up to 5kg per hour). The G12 can cater for a range of granule sizes too, ranging from 2~5mm.

You can see a selection of compatible pellets in the graphic below.

compatible pellets

One of the standout features of the G12 is its versatility in accepting multiple file formats such as STL, OBJ, AMF, and 3DMF, coupled with convenient file transfer options via USB or storage card. Moreover, the printer supports multiple operating systems, including Windows, MAC, and Linux, ensuring compatibility and ease of use across different platforms.

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The G12 excels in delivering rapid production speeds, with printing velocities reaching up to 100mm/s, significantly reducing lead times for manufacturing processes. This enhanced efficiency is further augmented by intelligent laser ranging, the leveling time can be significantly shortened and the leveling accuracy can be improved; Not only ensure the real-time and high safety of the leveling operation under the high temperature platform, but also avoid interference with the model during the printing process.

To Summarize

The G12 Pellet 3D Printer represents a huge leap in cost-effective industrial additive manufacturing, redefining the landscape with its cost-effectiveness, speed, and environmental consciousness.

With its advanced features, expansive printing capabilities, and commitment to sustainability, the G12 sets a new standard for industrial-grade 3D printing technology, empowering industries to innovate and create with unparalleled efficiency and precision.

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