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6.13 Rehabilitation applications case study 6: The
computer-aided design and rapid prototyping
fabrication of removable partial denture
frameworks
6.13.1 Acknowledgements
The work described in this case study was fi rst reported in the references
below and is reproduced here in part or in full with the permission of the
Council of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and Quintessence
Publishing Ltd.
• Eggbeer D, Bibb R, Williams R (2005), ‘The computer aided design and
rapid prototyping of removable partial denture frameworks’, Proceedings
of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers Part H: Journal of Engineering
in Medicine, 219 (H3), 195–202.
• Eggbeer D, Williams R J, Bibb R (2004), ‘A digital method of design
and manufacture of sacrifi cial patterns for removable partial denture
metal frameworks’, Quintessence Journal of Dental Technology, 2 (6),
490–99.
The authors would like thank Frank Cooper at the Jewellery Industry
Innovation Centre (JIIC) in Birmingham, UK who kindly supplied the
Perfactory ® and Solidscape ® RP patterns and Kevin Liles at 3D Systems
Inc. who supplied the Amethyst ® RP pattern.
6.13.2 Introduction
Computer-aided design, manufacture and rapid prototyping (CAD/CAM/
RP) techniques have been extensively employed in the product development
sector for many years and have also been extensively used in maxillofacial
technology and surgery (1, 2). In addition, CAD/CAM technologies
have been introduced into dentistry, particularly to the manufacture of
crowns and bridges (3), but there has been little research into the use of