Matthias Zimmerer
Application Engineer, CDT, Certified Exocad Trainer
Lab Manager of Schütz Dental, Founder of Asiga Dental eXperts
Growing up in his parents’ dental laboratory, the path to dental technology was very obvious for Matthias Zimmerer. The apprenticeship was followed by the successful completion of parts II-IV of the master craftsman’s diploma in the dental technician trade. Afterwards he worked in various jobs in commercial and practice laboratories.
Since 2013 he has been laboratory manager in the practice laboratory of dentist Dr. Heidi Edl in Erbendorf, whose focus is on digital dentistry. Both the integration of the digital workflow to the maximum extent and the further development of the digital production possibilities are part of his everyday life there, in order to optimally tailor aesthetic dentures to the needs of the patients.
He takes great pleasure in integrating new technologies into existing, well-established processes and in constantly optimising them. He sees many possibilities for change and further development in digital dental technology, which he puts to the test every day.
Matthias also had the ingenious idea of starting the Asiga Dental Experts page on Facebook!!
“Digital dentistry has been in my blood for many years now and I have not seen a technology development quite like this since I started 3D printing with Asiga. In fact, I would refer to this as being the most disruptive development in dentistry this past decade.”
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Location: Germany
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A new era of splint production has arrived.
Written by Matthias Zimmerer, Application Engineer, CDT, certified exocad trainer, Schütz Dental 3D printing is quite possibly the main manufacturing process used for splints today. 3D printed splint materials are tough with some being hard & rigid and others softer with a memory for patient compliance and comfort. The output will vary from printer to printer but all 3D printed splints must go through a polishing process to bring them to a gloss finish. So, regardless of how smooth the parts are after printing there is always the need for manual surface polishing (or should I say “was”). Looking back to how I used to manufacture splints makes me wonder what I would have done with all that time I
