Effective Dental Bar Design: Critical Considerations for Fit, Function and Manufacture

The biggest challenge we see in the manufacturing of dental bars is the actual design of the bar itself.

What we see is technicians designing bars that quite frankly are either not manufacturable, would require extensive bench-work or when machined, would never function for the intent in which they were designed. Further we see designs with extraneous geometry and even incorrect geometry included in key areas of the designs.

These problems are typically the result of: untrained or improperly trained users, CAD limitations and/or poorly defined or inaccurate designs provided.

We provide solutions (and training of course) to enable customers to identify and modify problem areas in designs to assure manufacturability.

I recently prepared a presentation to give at the Greater New York Dental Meeting on this very subject entitled “Manufacturing Considerations in Dental Bar Design" and thought I would provide a link to a video of the presentation itself. The video basically runs...