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dental 3-D printers industry report designed to be high throughput manufacturing machines. The company’s biggest user, Glidewell Dental, runs three Structo OrthoForm printers round the clock in its production line enabling it to achieve a throughput of 180 arches per printer per day – “Structo’s unique MSLA technology is just the type of innovation the industry needs.” David Leeson, Director of Engineering of Glidewell Dental. “With the growing volume in (clear aligner) cases, we saw the opportunity to start managing the process ourselves in-house, to better control the quality of the aligners and reduce manu- facturing costs.” Dr Nurul Aizat, CEO & Group Clinical Director, FDC Dental Group. more than any other 3-D printer in the same price category. The 3-D printer purchased by FDC Dental Group is the OrthoForm, an orthodontic 3-D printer capable of printing up to 30 arches in 1.5 hours. To date, the OrthoForm has helped Structo expand its global reach with an installa- tion base in across four continents. “At Glidewell Dental, we run a high-volume facility with round- the-clock production of various models and appliances. When looking for a 3-D printer, I need something that not only prints accurately with reproducible results throughout the print plat- form but is also able to deliver the speed and throughput we require,” commented David Leeson, Director of Engineering at Glidewell Dental. After running three Structo OrthoForm print- ers over the last year, Glidewell has decided to further integrate Structo’s MSLA technology print- ers to expand the company’s production capa- bilities. By being the launch customer and adding two of the newly released DentaForm 3-D print- ers, Glidewell Dental is now running five Structo 3-D printers at its production facilities. “Operating two of Structo’s new printers is not only suficient to replace a number of our existing printers, but also allows us to increase capacity overall,” added Leeson, who mentioned that the company foresee ortho 2/2017 35