DIO, a company leading the Digital Dentistry (CEO Jinbaek Kim), recently opened a new horizon for digital treatment, and is drawing attention to itself. On the 17th, DIO successfully conducted a preclinical test of the world's first automated robotic system for tooth prep treatment incorporating 3D digital technology at Yonsei University Wonju Severance Christian Hospital (Professor Byungho Choi and Seungmi Jeong).

Unlike before, in this automated robotic system, based on the patient’s CT and oral scan data, doctors use a CAD system to design preps and prostheses on a computer in advance, and the automated robot is designed according to the design in the actual oral cavity. It is a system that shortens the treatment period and dramatically improves the patient's convenience by extracting the teeth and then placing the prosthesis that was pre-fabricated digitally.

In particular, the preclinical test of the automated preparation robot system can be said to be an important result showing the possibility of digitalization from A to Z in dental treatment. In this system, the core elements of the fourth industrial revolution, such as data of digital imaging devices, designing software with AI, 3D printing material that precisely manufactures prostheses, and precision robots and control systems, are convergence of the innovative development of digital dentistry.

After 2 years of development, DIO’s 3D printer, ‘DIO PROBO’ was launched. With it, 5 types of 3D printing materials were developed (C&B, CG, Cast, Model, Denture) and DIO received a spotlight for being a company leading the popularization.

And this year in July, a cutting-edge new 3D printing material ‘DIOnavi-SG02’ with enhanced transparency was developed, along with new material for final prosthesis ‘DIOnavi-C7B z’. which will bring enormous changes in the prostheses field also.