Methods for producing a dental mold, dental implant or dental aligner from materials having multiple mechanisms of hardening
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1. A method of forming a three-dimensional object, wherein said three-dimensional object is a dental mold, dental implant or dental aligner, comprising:
- (a) providing a carrier and an optically transparent member having a build surface, said carrier and said build surface defining a build region therebetween;
(b) filling said build region with a polymerizable liquid, said polymerizable liquid comprising a mixture of (i) a light polymerizable liquid first component, and (ii) a second solidifiable component that is different from said first component;
(c) irradiating said build region with light through said optically transparent member to form a solid polymer scaffold from said first component and also advancing said carrier away from said build surface to form a three-dimensional intermediate having a shape of said dental mold, dental implant or dental aligner, said three-dimensional intermediate containing said second solidifiable component carried in said solid polymer scaffold in unsolidified and/or uncured form; and
(d) subsequent to said irradiating step, heating, microwave irradiating, or both heating and microwave irradiating, said second solidifiable component in said three-dimensional intermediate to form said dental mold, dental implant or dental aligner,wherein said forming comprises bottom-up stereolithography.
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A polymerizable liquid, or resin, useful for the production by additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional object of polyurethane, polyurea, or a copolymer thereof, is described. The resin includes at least one of (i) a blocked or reactive blocked prepolymer, (ii) a blocked or reactive blocked diisocyanate, or (iii) a blocked or reactive blocked diisocyanate chain extender.
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1. A method of forming a three-dimensional object, wherein said three-dimensional object is a dental mold, dental implant or dental aligner, comprising:
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(a) providing a carrier and an optically transparent member having a build surface, said carrier and said build surface defining a build region therebetween; (b) filling said build region with a polymerizable liquid, said polymerizable liquid comprising a mixture of (i) a light polymerizable liquid first component, and (ii) a second solidifiable component that is different from said first component; (c) irradiating said build region with light through said optically transparent member to form a solid polymer scaffold from said first component and also advancing said carrier away from said build surface to form a three-dimensional intermediate having a shape of said dental mold, dental implant or dental aligner, said three-dimensional intermediate containing said second solidifiable component carried in said solid polymer scaffold in unsolidified and/or uncured form; and (d) subsequent to said irradiating step, heating, microwave irradiating, or both heating and microwave irradiating, said second solidifiable component in said three-dimensional intermediate to form said dental mold, dental implant or dental aligner, wherein said forming comprises bottom-up stereolithography. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A dental mold, dental implant or dental aligner three-dimensional object produced by a method comprising:
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(a) providing a carrier and an optically transparent member having a build surface, said carrier and said build surface defining a build region therebetween; (b) filling said build region with a polymerizable liquid, said polymerizable liquid comprising a mixture of (i) a light polymerizable liquid first component, and (ii) a second solidifiable component that is different from said first component; (c) irradiating said build region with light through said optically transparent member to form a solid polymer scaffold from said first component and also advancing said carrier away from said build surface to form a three-dimensional intermediate having a shape of said dental mold, dental implant or dental aligner, said three-dimensional intermediate containing said second solidifiable component carried in said solid polymer scaffold in unsolidified and/or uncured form; and (d) subsequent to said irradiating step, heating, microwave irradiating, or both heating and microwave irradiating, said second solidifiable component in said three-dimensional intermediate to form said dental mold, dental implant or dental aligner, wherein said forming comprises bottom-up stereolithography, and wherein said first component comprises monomers and/or prepolymers polymerizable upon exposure to actinic radiation or light, and a reactive diluent. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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