Digital workflow
- Scanner
- Workflow management
- Keeping track of patients
- Digital set up
- To move teeth
- 3D printer scanner
- Prints digital model
- Formlabs, Springray pro
- Post printing process
- To remove liquid resin from digital model via washing in Isopropyl Alcohol for 5 minutes and curing for 5 minutes
- Thermoforming machine
- Aligner is made from the printed digital model using the thermoforming machine
- Aligner material
- Aligner trimming polishing
- Aligner packaging
Lab layout
- No significant change from wet / dry room for decontamination
- Addition of Scanner, wash station, curing station, theroforming machine
Case
- Mild crowding case with reduced overjet and overbite
- Breakdown
- Time 6.5 months
- 13 appointments
- 5 scans
- Delivery 4 appointments
- Number of aligners 39
- Cost per aligner £8
- Total lab cost £334
General costs
- Moderate case: 24 aligners
- Total cost £494
- Material £218
- Software £132
- Staff cost £137
- Blue lab cost = £1600
In-house Vs outhouse
- In house 100% in charge of set up Vs outhouse double checking if out-house
- In-house must understand staging and mechanics Vs outhouse don’t necessarily require knowledge base
- In-house exclusive cost of each aligner Vs out-house package costs
E-book free to download from Jason Cope
https://copestheticce.com/labebook/
