Articles | Dr David Penn's Innovation Corner
Ideal Seating Protocol In an ideal world, fully compliant clear aligner patients wear their devices 22 hours a day. This protocol is thus designed for patients who wear aligners for 22 hours per day. The 2 hours where patients are...
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Imagine an aligner that you couldn’t remove! I know for many of you, that concept is almost incomprehensible but back more than a decade ago, the rigidity of the aligner plastic meant that once it was in, it wasn’t coming...
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So the quest began, to design a device that grabbed the aligner effectively, that didn’t change the aligner shape and provided a visco-elastic force that helped seat the aligners. We assembled a team of material science experts, industrial designers and...
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The challenge to identify a material for the Munchies that was idyllic was monstrous. There were so many factors to consider, but undoubtedly the “Hardness” index was the most difficult . We knew that the visco-elastic property was an essential element. Viscoelastic...
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Dr. David Penn 1122CORP Executive Chairman Dr. David Penn graduated from Sydney University dental school and commenced practice in Sydney's eastern suburbs. He trained extensively in the United States under two of the world's leading aesthetic dentists and in 1983...
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