3Shape’s Dental System offers CAD Design of DENTSPLY Friadent Customized Abutments

2-piece customized abutments can now be designed for ANKYLOS and XiVE.

Mannheim, April 04, 2012 – 3Shape A/S, a global leader in 3D scanners and CAD/CAM software solutions, has announced the official release of new capabilities in the Dental System. This system can be used to design 2-piece customized abutments using DENTSPLY Friadent pre-manufactured TitaniumBases.

3Shape has integrated the entire original DENTSPLY Friadent range library into its Dental System software, supporting DENTSPLY Friadent’s ANKYLOS and XiVE implant systems. The new library enables dental technicians who use the 3Shape Abutment Designer to model 2-piece abutments using a prefabricated TitaniumBase and customized ceramic mesostructure. To manufacture the designed restoration, the original TitaniumBase must be obtained from DENTSPLY Friadent. The customized zirconium oxide part can be milled locally in the lab or milling center.

Partners, 3Shape, are pleased with the joint offer: “DENTSPLY Friadent is a leading implant manufacturer, and many labs are devoted users of both the 3Shape CAD/CAM Dental System and DENTSPLY Friadent’s abutments,” says Rune Fisker, Vice President Product Strategy at 3Shape. “Now they can design virtually and provide highly esthetic 2-piece customized abutments, thereby introducing better choices for dentists and their patients.” 

“Optimal clinical results and long-term stability can be best achieved by using original components such as implants, TitaniumBase and the implant library throughout the workflow”, says Frank Beckerle, Global Brand Manager Digital Dentistry at DENTSPLY Friadent. “We also provide the matching scan-bodies, for determining the correct position of ANKYLOS and XiVE.”

Users also see the advantages of integrating TitaniumBase into the 3Shape system: “The DENTSPLY Friadent library gives me even more options in providing solutions for implant cases using customized zirconium oxide abutments on TitaniumBase,” says Bjoern Roland, Master Dental Technician at Schnellbaecher & Roland Dental Design. “By using these libraries with the 3shape CAD Design Softwarel I get the optimal esthetic result quickly and easily with a couple of clicks.

” The DENTSPLY Friadent library is now available. Users who would like to benefit from this opportunity should contact their 3Shape distributor for more information on how to obtain these libraries. The original implant and the original TitaniumBase must be obtained from a DENTSPLY Friadent distributor, and scan-bodies can be ordered from the International Customer Service, telephone number +49 6181 595694, or by e-mail: customerservice.degudent-de@dentsply.com.

About 3Shape A/S
3Shape A/S is a Danish company specializing in the development and marketing of 3D scanners and CAD/CAM software solutions designed for the creation, processing, analysis and management of high-quality 3D data for application in complex manufacturing processes. 3Shape's objective is a “completey digital dental lab,” and its more than 130 developers are working towards this goal with outstanding innovative achievement.

3Shape’s flexible solutions empower dental professionals through the automation of real workflows, and its systems are applied in thousands of labs in more than 85 countries worldwide, putting 3Shape technologies at the peak of the market in terms of units produced per day by dental technicians. 3Shape boosts its first-line distributor support network with a second-line support force of over 30 in-house experts placed in 5 support and service centers strategically placed around the globe.

3Shape is a privately-held company headquartered in Copenhagen, with the market’s largest team dedicated to scanner and software development for the dental segment based in Denmark and the Ukraine, production facilities in Poland, and Business Development & Support Offices in New Jersey, USA and Asia. Further information regarding 3Shape can be obtained at www.3shapedental.com.

Publisher:
DENTSPLY Friadent, Friadent GmbH, Steinzeugstr. 50, 68229 Mannheim, Germany, www.dentsply-friadent.com

Contact:
Johannes Lerch, Senior Manager Communications, Tel. +49 621 4302-1346, Fax +49 621 4302-1346, johannes.lerch@dentsply.com