Literature Review

Year : 2022 | Volume : 7 | Issue : 1 | Page : 42-49

Three-Dimensional Printing – From A Pediatric Dentist’s Perspective

Dhanraj Kalaivanan1, Priyanka Kalimreddy2, Sanjana R Kodical3, Attiguppe Ramasetty Prabhakar41

Reader, Department of Pedodontics, SathyabamaDental College and Hospital, 2 assistants Professor, Department of Pedodontics, SOA University,3Lecturer, Department of Pedodontics, DY Patil Deemed to be University School Of Dentistry,4Former Professor and Head of Department, Department of Pedodontics, Bapuji Dental College and Hospital

Address for Correspondence:

Dr Dhanraj Kalaivanan

Address: Department of Pedodontics, Sathyabama Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, India –600119

Email ID: drdhanraj.dental@sathyabama.ac.in

Abstract

In the digital era, the conventional techniques of manufacturing have been replaced by additive manufacturing using the digital data captured. This advent of manufacturing has been trending in medical field in the early beginning of the 20th century and now it’s trending in all biomedical and allied healthcare including dentistry. Additive manufacturing is gaining rapid potential in nearly all fields of dentistry. It differs from formative and subtractive manufacturing in that the object is "printed" in the additive manufacturing process by adding the building material layer by layer. In pediatric dentistry,3D printing has gained its way by its child-friendly practice tool with the advent of intra-oral scanners. This 3D printing has various roles in taking pediatric dentistry to its next era – the digital era –leading to customised, child-friendly, painless holistic pediatric dental practice.

Keywords: 

Additive manufacturing, Pediatric Dentistry, 3D Printing

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How to Cite This Article: Kalaivanan, D., Kalimreddy , P., Kodical, S. R., & Ramasetty, D. . P. (2022). Three Dimensional Printing – From A Pediatric Dentist’s Perspective : 3D Printing In Pediatric Dentistry -A Literature review. International Journal of Pedodontic Rehabilitation, 7(1), 42–49. https://doi.org/10.56501/intjpedorehab.v7i1.256