3D Printing in Dentistry: Splints, Provisionals & Digital Occlusion | Dr. Seth Atkins

A 15-tooth wax-up costs about $750 from the lab and about $4 to print. Dr. Seth Atkins explains where the real return on a 3D printer comes from, why most patients who need full mouth restoration don't match an "average" articulator, and how he cut splint adjustment time from over an hour to 15 minutes. In this episode: - Acquisition, manipulation and production: the three phases of digital dentistry - The real ROI: printed wax-ups, splints, models and provisionals - Ceramic-reinforced resins and fully contoured printed provisionals - Which resin shades to stock when you start - How to ask your lab how it programs the articulator - Where the 110mm intercondylar distance came from, and why it's often wrong - Designing splints from CBCT measurements, and recording real jaw motion Plus dental news: Michael Jackson's former elephant loses a tusk, a dry mouth lawsuit against CVS is dismissed, an Iowa dental student's Rubik's Cube portrait of Caitlin Clark, and dentists ask a judge to certify the Delta Dental class action. Dr. Seth Atkins practices in Waxahachie, Texas. He was born and raised in Lubbock, graduated from the UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry, is visiting faculty at Spear Education and teaches with Dr. Jim McKee at the Chicago Study Club. He is a Fellow of the AGD and of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:37 News 2:02 News: Michael Jackson's elephant loses a tusk 3:04 News: dry mouth lawsuit against CVS dismissed 3:59 News: a Rubik's Cube portrait of Caitlin Clark 5:25 News: dentists ask to certify the Delta Dental class action 7:37 Tonight's topic: digital occlusion 10:19 Introducing Dr. Seth Atkins 12:07 Golf and the Masters 13:51 How he got into digital dentistry 16:08 Why most restorative patients aren't "average" 17:07 Acquisition, manipulation, production 17:57 The real ROI of a 3D printer 20:06 Will printing replace milling? 21:42 Ceramic-reinforced resins for crowns 23:50 Printing fully contoured provisionals 26:37 How is your lab programming the articulator? 29:01 The diagnostic wax-up workflow 30:43 Booking time with a lab technician 31:46 Which resin shades to stock 34:05 His favorite provisional resin 35:16 Viewer question: stain and glaze 36:52 Viewer question: radiopaque provisionals 38:29 Leaving teeth unprepped as alignment points 41:09 Printed bite splints 43:37 Where the 110mm intercondylar distance came from 44:48 Designing splints in D3 Tools 46:31 Replacing the aesthetic face bow 49:06 Programming excursive movements 51:16 Recording real patient motion 53:44 Same input, same output 55:13 Closing 🎧 Listen to the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dentists-in-the-know/id1543254763 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2Elfj6LX0hCUyp0AgdTsij 📺 Make sure you subscribe to catch new episodes live every Wednesday at 8pm ET! https://www.youtube.com/@dentistsintheknow 🌟 Stay up to date on all the latest dental trends when you follow the DINKs: https://fanflet.com/dinks/social-2