Smilemaker Clear Aligner Printer

Smilemaker Clear Aligner Printer

The world's first clear aligner printer. Built on the patent pending Autoforming™ technology, Smilemaker turns clear aligner fabrication into an automated and 100% hands-free process.

Overview

Smilemaker uses a specialty filament material to print each aligner on a circular platform. This enables a fully automated and hands-free process. Trimming is performed by a high power laser with great precision and smooth edges.

Smilemaker is everything you need to sit back and relax while your clear aligner factory is ramping up production, right on your benchtop.

Key Features

• Compatible with all major ortho planner software
• Accepts open STL models and PTS trimline (both scalloped and straight)
• Laser trimming with great smooth edges

Autoforming™ Process

Smilemaker's Autoforming™ process consists of 5 fully automated steps:

1. Model printing - Printing of the aligner model on the main platform
2. Sheet loading - Moving of the sheet blanks to heating position
3. Sheet forming - Heating of the sheet, thermoforming on the model
4. Laser trimming - Trimming of the aligner based on the trimline file
5. Ejecting - Ejecting of the sheet and model with the cut aligner on top

Production Advantages

• 24/7 unattended production of great quality clear aligners
• Lowest per aligner costs due to the elimination of all manual labour
• Benchtop size & safe to install in any indoors location

Performance & Cost Efficiency

• Model costs less than €1 each
• Standard blank sheets of 120 or 125mm
• No polishing or aftertouching in most cases
• Print up to a full case in less than a day
• Unattended and 100% hands free production
• Easy to learn and delegate

Technology Details

Instead of using direct aligner resins, Autoforming™ takes the conventional thermoforming process that has been proven across millions of cases globally and fully automates it in a benchtop-sized machine called the Smilemaker.

Smilemaker blends seamlessly into the VOXELTEK digital dental ecosystem. The VOXEL.IOS intraoral scanner takes beautiful detailed patient scans in just a few minutes, while orthodontic design services are available over the VOXELTEK.live online CAD platform.