FABRICATION AND ANALYSIS OF HUMAN PROSTHETIC TEETH BY USING 3D PRINTING MACHINE FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

Abstract

Now a days, many people are suffering with teeth problems. It is due to increase in cavities of the teeth. These cavities may eat the teeth and gums in the mandible. Cavities may leads to breaking of teeth. This partial dentures and effected teeth may create brutal problems to the patients. While having accidents there is a chance to breaking of teeth and may leads to severe problem to the patients. In order to decrease these problems doctors choose to replace original teeth with artificial teeth. In recent methods these artificial teeth is made up of chromium and zirconium materials, by using these types of materials it may cause high cost and time taking process for manufacturing artificial teeth. To reduce these factors a new innovative 3D printing technology is used to prepare artificial teeth. In this work an attempt has been made to manufacture artificial teeth by 3D printing technique using PLA material. By using this PLA material prototype model should be printed to give demonstration for medical students and improve the awareness of the patients. At first MRI scan/CT scan digital images of human teeth are taken and these images are converted to .STL (Standard tessellation language) file using 3D Slicer software. The required components were designed using the Modeling softwar (SolidWorks). These components are converted into .STL file. These components are printed by using 3D printing machine with PLA material. This is mainly used for medical guidance purpose.