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2019年1月19日—NewParadigmsinAlignerManufacturing.Roughly20years ...

January 19, 2019

Roughly 20 years have elapsed since the commercial introduction of the first clear aligners and today they are an established and well accepted treatment modality. Not many remember but back in the early 2000’s, the Invisalign® device was greeted with much skepticism and doubt. A great deal of clinical work and marketing efforts were needed to convince the orthodontic community that this method is here to stay. Today, in many cases, aligners have become the preferred treatment option for clinicians and patients alike.

Not surprisingly, the last two decades that have passed since Invisalign was launched also witnessed a few major technological breakthroughs, including in intra-oral scanning, processing power, 3D graphics and lately, 3D printing. The purpose of this paper ...