The OPTISMILE Podcast 130 - 4D Printing and Shape Memory Aligners
Intro
Welcome back to Save Your Money, Save Your Teeth. In the previous episode, Eon Engelbrecht and Dr Clifford Yudelman looked at how to spot dental upselling and protect yourself from production dentistry. This episode turns to genuinely new technology: clear aligners printed directly from shape memory materials, sometimes called 4D printing, and how to judge them without getting swept up in the hype.
They cover what 4D printing actually means, how a directly printed aligner differs from a conventional vacuum formed one, how shape memory materials apply force, and which companies are…
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