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form has announced the introduction of three healthcare-focused 3D printing materials to its library. BioMed Elastic 50A Resin, BioMed Flex 80A Resin and IBT Flex Resin have been added to the company’s range of materials.
The company says the two new BioMed materials will expand applications for 3D printing in healthcare, reducing the time and costs associated with traditional manufacturing methods, such as molding, for surgical models, medical devices and more.
Formlabs says IBT Flex Resin is designed with tear-resistant, precise and transparent properties for dental applications, including direct 3D printed composite restoration guides and indirect bonding trays.
“The adoption of 3D printing is accelerating in healthcare and dentistry, bringing patients the benefit of personalized care that improves comfort and outcomes,” said Formlabs President of Healthcare Guillaume Bailliard. “The Formlabs materials development team is dedicated to delivering new materials and solutions that will advance 3D printing in healthcare and dental workflows and expand the possibilities for patient-specific care.
“By adding these new flexible and elastomeric materials to our extensive library of biocompatible and dental materials, we are ushering in a new wave of personalized healthcare and digital dentistry that will directly benefit patients.”
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The company says the new BioMed resins are ‘cutting edge’ biocompatible materials with ISO 10993 and USP Class VI certifications that enable an enhanced personalized approach to healthcare. Formlabs says the materials are suitable for long-term skin contact and short-term mucosal membrane contact for flexible patient-matched medical device components, comfortable medical devices, as well as medical tissue models for surgeons to reference in the operating room. operation.
Formlabs says BioMed Elastic 50A resin is a soft, elastic resin for applications requiring comfort, biocompatibility and transparency. The elasticity of the materials will suit applications such as soft tissue models, gastrointestinal models for fluid visualization and more.
The company says BioMed Flex 80A Resin, a tough, flexible, medical-grade material for applications requiring durability, biocompatibility and transparency, will reduce workflow time by eliminating molding to directly produce flexible, patient-specific medical devices or medical hard tissue models.
IBT Flex Resin is a biocompatible, FDA registered Class 1 material for dental applications. According to Formlabs, it can provide ‘consistent and predictable’ results for 3D printing indirect bonding trays and direct composite restoration guides. The company says that with increased flexibility, tear resistance and transparency, this material will enable dental laboratories and clinics to save time and cost while maintaining the precision needed for applications.
