What We Delivered
Renishaw wanted an attention-grabbing style for its latest dental scanning instruments that would make it stand out from the crowd. Renishaw’s Incise™ dental milling system will enable laboratories to manufacture zirconia frameworks in-house. The scanning machine creates 3D computer models used in the manufacture of dental crowns and bridges.
Result
DesignEdge designed a practical and affordable dental product with great visual impact within a sculptural form factor. The product design incorporates contact scanning technology for use with both the dental scanning and machining options and an accessory tray for storing scanning probes. With high accuracy tested to ISO 10360-4, the dental scanner achieves precision performance.
“The product utilises patented precision measurement technology and is aimed at the high-end dental CADCAM market, the aesthetics needed to reflect this as a ground breaking product. It was the look of the product that drew visitors to the stand at its launch in Cologne. Customers found it appealing and eye catching and its design became quite a talking point. When Renishaw began developing the product, design was high on the list of requirements. We wanted a design that brought attention grabbing aesthetics to the product.”
Bryan AustinGeneral Manager, Renishaw Dental Products
Dental Systems Product Design
Exceptional accuracy in a compact, lightweight package
DesignEdge worked alongside Renishaw engineering to design the dental scanner and created a fluidic form and a sculptured aesthetic, the result achieves superior accuracy through the use of Renishaw's contact scanning technology which has been used in thousands of measurement applications worldwide, including critical applications such as aerospace engine parts. A dental impression can be scanned to within an accuracy of 10 microns which is vanishingly small, put into context a human hair is on average 50 microns wide and some bacteria are just 10 microns long.
Patented non-cartesian mechanism
Unlike conventional designs, this provides a lightweight and cost-effective structure that enables high-accuracy processing in a compact device. This means that even the smallest lab can accommodate a scanner. See our product design portfolio for other successful scientific and medical product designs.
Together with Renishaw’s central milling option, dental laboratories now have access to a dental CAD/CAM system that offers both in-lab and out-sourced manufacturing options.
DesignEdge’s product design incorporated a fluid aesthetic for the incise dental milling system which enables dental laboratories to manufacture zirconia frameworks in-house.
Advanced “blue light” scanning provided by Renishaw’s DS30 high speed technology can accurately scan into narrower and deeper areas than conventional units.
The compact tabletop device tested to ISO 10360-4 and used for scanning full bridges and abutment pins; measuring implant bridge positions, bite impressions and wax-ups.
Once the dental impression has been scanned technicians can use CAD/CAM to create diagnostic wax ups without ever having to pick up a wax knife.
The new dental milling machine enables single copings or complex bridge frameworks to be manufactured from data obtained directly from the dental scanner using sophisticated dental CAD software analysis.