We deliver a complete restoration within three days of the intraoral scan.

Objet 3D Printing Solutions provide an accurate and cost effective result for completing this process and increasing protability.

Don Albensi
CEO of Albensi Dental Lab

Case Study
At a Glance
Company: Albensi Laboratories URL: www.albensilab.com Location: Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania, USA Industry: Dental

Albensi Laboratories expands business and shrinks costs with Objet 3D Printing-based digital dentistry workow
Background
Albensi Laboratories, a leading dental laboratory located near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has long recognized the value that advanced technologies can bring to its patients and business. As CAD/CAM design technology became widely available, Albensi Laboratories was quick to explore the potential for producing dental parts straight from CAD design imagery. Dental restorations produced with software design have become more common in recent years. Most dental companies have access to CAD/CAM procedures, either in the dental practice, the dental laboratory or in the form of production centers. Like many companies, Albensi Laboratories was already beneting from using CAD/CAM to generate dental restorations. Among the benets: access to new, almost defect-free, industrially prefabricated and controlled materials; higher quality and reproducibility; data storage suitable for a standardized chain of production; improved precision and planning; and greater efciency.

Challenges
Automate dental model production Speed up throughput without compromising high standards and without expanding technician staff and facilities

Solution
Objet Eden350V 3D Printing System with high resolution and ne detail output

Results
A complete digital workow for in-house fabrication of all dental models Fast business growth, with a more varied offering Optimized resource allocation and signicantly shorter design time Fast, full return on investment through business growth, faster throughput and lower operational costs

The Challenge
Recently, as the price of dental laboratory work has become a major factor in treatment planning and therapy, Albensi Laboratories management realized that further automation could enable more cost-effective production of individual dental models. To stay competitive, we needed to streamline our business, said Don Albensi, President/Owner of Albensi Laboratories. We had to nd a way to speed up our throughput without compromising our high quality standards or expanding our technician staff or facilities.

We concluded that integrating 3D printing into our workow could reduce our costs and open new opportunities for growth, while still meeting all our quality and operational requirements.

About Albensi Laboratories

At Albensi Laboratories, we believe that the success of practice requires that every case be done right. The patients satisfaction and dental health are the common interest that makes teamwork essential. Albensi Laboratories is known for its superior craftsmanship, open communications, exceptional customer care, on-time deliveries and the latest technology available. It is managed by by Mr. Don Albensi, a Pennsylvania State University and Median School graduate who began his career in dental technology in 1977 working as a ceramist. In 1979, Mr. Albensi opened Albensi Laboratories in Pittsburgh, serving the Western Pennsylvania area. This full service laboratory now services doctors across the United States and prides itself on being at the forefront of CAD/CAM technology. Besides serving as President/Owner of Albensi Laboratories, Mr. Albensi is a Lab Management Consultant and does speaking engagements for various dental manufacturers and universities.

The Solution
The Objet Eden350V 3D Printing System provided the ideal solution for Albensi Laboratories as it would enable them to rapidly manufacture digital stone models and further improve the quality of its dental restoration manufacturing and placement. Using the Objet system, Albensi Laboratories can produce dental restorations with exceptionally ne details and an outstanding surface nish all vital for meeting the high standards of its team and dentist clients.

3D printing with the Objet systems enables us to guarantee dentists a high standard of precision in the placement of dental restorations that is difcult to achieve using traditional freehand techniques.
The unique versatility of Objets 3D printing enables it to smoothly integrate with the markets leading dental restoration manufacturing solutions. For Albensi Laboratories, using the Objet Eden350V 3D Printing System represents yet another leap towards fully digital dental solutions.

The Result
By adopting the Objet 3D Printing solution, Albensi Laboratories was able to realize a complete digital workow for in-house fabrication of models, abutments, coping/crowns and bridges of any size or combination. With efcient in-house manufacturing and many new indication possibilities, Albensi Laboratories is able to offer a greater variety of solutions to its clients.

Before installing the Objet 3D Printing System, we had to decline or outsource certain types of enquiries. Now, we have the production capability to accept every restoration order that comes in.
With the Objet Eden350V 3D Printing System, Albensi Laboratories has dramatically reduced its design process time. It has also been able to bring non-technicians into the workow to handle tasks that they had never before thought possible and daily production yield per dental technician has sky-rocketed. Albensi Laboratories investment was rapidly returned through more business, faster throughput and operational cost reductions. The Objets Eden 350V 3D Printing System has allowed Albensi Laboratories to become a completely modern dental solution provider, and the system capabilities continue to create new business opportunities and power growth.

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