Dental work

At the Dental Showcase event to be held at the NEC in Birmingham, UK in October, Delcam will demonstrate the latest version of its DentMILL knowledge-based CAM system for machining caps and bridges in ceramics and titanium.

The new version includes an updated interface, with new icons specific to dental machining, automatic nesting options so that multiple copings and bridges can be produced within a single block to ensure the most efficient use of material, more flexible creation of support pins and the ability to add sintering pins.

DentMILL is a completely ‘open’ CAM system that accepts data from any dental design system or scanner capable of exporting data in the STL format used widely within the dental industry. Similarly, it can output machining toolpaths to virtually any CNC machine. Most other dental CAM programs are part of a ‘closed’ system that can only work with unique data formats or specific machining equipment.