3D Printing Dentures, Jewelry, and more with Justin Marks, CEO of Arfona

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Justin's background as a dental technician and the owner of his own clinic, led to Arfona and 3D printed dentures. Dentures made in traditional dental labs are a time consuming and expensive process, but no longer, because of 3D printing. Flexible polymers have been used by dental professionals for years. The advancements in 3D printing have created an entirely new way to fabricate partial dentures and full dentures.
Arfona produces 3D flexible partials through an additive manufacturing process using their r.Pod™ dual extrusion printer. These flexible partials are combined with custom milled denture teeth for a functional product that looks great.
CAD/CAM dentures have been available for several years, but not widely used due to cost limitations. Arfona offers dental labs several options for producing digital full dentures. Justin's father, also a dentist, invented Valplast, the material used in making dental prosthetics; he also started Master Touch Dental Lab. Valplast is the material used in the r.Pod™ for dental applications and Master Touch Lab is used by Arfona to develop and test new materials and 3D printing applications.
The r.Pod™ is in production and will soon be available to the public via the website www.arfona.com.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.9	Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:18.1	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:27.2	This is Richard Jacobs with Future Technology Podcast, almost here around the corner technology.
0:34.5	And today I'm speaking with Justin Marks from Arfona.com, ARF-O-N-A, a 3D printing company.
0:42.6	They do 3D printers for hobbyists and makers. How you doing, Justin?
0:47.9	Great. How are you, Rich? Good, good. In case I gave a poor description of what you do. Can you expand upon it a little bit?
0:55.9	What is our phona specialize in? What does it do? Sure. I mean, you certainly touched on
1:00.8	some of the key markets that we do focus on. We actually started the company earlier this year,
1:06.5	although it's been in the planning stage for many years now. Our core product is actually a 3D printed partial denture.
1:13.6	My own background is as a denture technician and a dental lab owner.
1:19.6	And in working with traditional methods, which in the case of dentures have kind of been the same technology for the last almost 100 years,
1:26.6	started exploring 3D printing options in order to advance the technology a little further.
1:32.3	There's a lot of other types of restorations that are now made in the dental laboratory using digital methods, whether through 3D printing or CNC machining.
1:40.3	And dentures are kind of the last thing that are made by dental technicians to actually catch up to the digital manufacturing revolution.
1:47.6	So we did invent a product to do that.
1:49.9	And our flagship product, the R-Pod desktop printer, prints not only partial dentures, but can also be used with a wide range of other materials that can be used not only in dental but also in other
2:00.8	markets like the ones you mentioned. Interesting. For dentures, what material do you print in
2:08.2	and is that the same material that lab technicians would use to make it, you know, by hand or by
2:13.0	other process? Yes. So one of the main products that we print on the R-Pod is it's a product called
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