Editorial: 3D printing in dentistry

Find out more about 3D printing applications, techniques and technologies in dentistry as well as some of the advantages and disadvantages of adopting these technologies in this free Editorial from the Journal of 3D Printing in Medicine. 3D printing (3DP), otherwise known as additive manufacturing, is the forerunner in today’s digital dentistry. 3DP as a technique surfaced back in the 1980s but has turned mainstream only since lean methodologies entered prototyping more recently in the 21st century. Its advent began when Charles Hull printed, for the first time, in 1983, a 3D object using the first 3D printer [1]. 3DP...