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A review of additive manufacturing in conservative dentistry and endodontics part 2: applications in restorative dentistry and endodontics
Peddi Shanmukh SrinivasA study conducted by Wong and Pfahnl evaluated the feasibility of fused deposition modelling (FDM) 3D printing 10 Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) thermoplastic surgical instruments.1 All...
A review of additive manufacturing in conservative dentistry and endodontics part 1: basic principles
Peddi Shanmukh SrinivasAn extensive electronic search was performed of articles on PubMed from 1990 to 2017. Key words such as ‘Additive printing’, ‘3D-bioprinting’, ‘CAD CAM’, ‘Rapid prototyping’ and ‘Restorative...