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<blockquote data-quote="tuyere" data-source="post: 375103" data-attributes="member: 26916">To be my usual pedantic self- In terms of product quality and longevity, what&#039;s better for the patient, milled is virtually always gonna be better, assuming competent fabrication and fitting- it&#039;s a reflection of each process and its limitations/constraints. SLM/DLP/LCD prints are flatly inferior, mechanically and structurally, to their subtractively-manufactured equivalents, there is no situation in which a porous, spongey composite only partially-composed of the desired restoration material is going to outperform a homogenous bulk sample, its properties carefully controlled at the point of blank manufacture, which is milled to final shape. ...now, which is better for the lab, that&#039;s a very different question with differently-weighted factors. High-performing, aesthetically-satisfactory printed materials have come a very long way in the past few years. Rodin Sculpture or Titan is fantastic stuff for any sort of temp or provisional, and you can&#039;t argue with the speed and ease of manufacture to a well-fitting, ready-to-wear standard. The fact that it lets labs do this kind of work with a $500 printer instead of a $35000 mill is probably the biggest bonus for small, shoestring-budget labs in particular. Nothing I haven&#039;t said here before, across a half-dozen similar threads. If you can profitably mill temps and everybody&#039;s happy with them, keep on keepin&#039; on. But the barrier to entry has basically collapsed, if you&#039;re willing to learn how to maintain your own hobbyist-tier printer and to print to a high standard with technically-challenging resins like Sculpture/Titan. Couple ways you can skin this satisfactorily, depending on your lab setup and your resources.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tuyere, post: 375103, member: 26916"] To be my usual pedantic self- In terms of product quality and longevity, what's better for the patient, milled is virtually always gonna be better, assuming competent fabrication and fitting- it's a reflection of each process and its limitations/constraints. SLM/DLP/LCD prints are flatly inferior, mechanically and structurally, to their subtractively-manufactured equivalents, there is no situation in which a porous, spongey composite only partially-composed of the desired restoration material is going to outperform a homogenous bulk sample, its properties carefully controlled at the point of blank manufacture, which is milled to final shape. ...now, which is better for the lab, that's a very different question with differently-weighted factors. High-performing, aesthetically-satisfactory printed materials have come a very long way in the past few years. Rodin Sculpture or Titan is fantastic stuff for any sort of temp or provisional, and you can't argue with the speed and ease of manufacture to a well-fitting, ready-to-wear standard. The fact that it lets labs do this kind of work with a $500 printer instead of a $35000 mill is probably the biggest bonus for small, shoestring-budget labs in particular. Nothing I haven't said here before, across a half-dozen similar threads. If you can profitably mill temps and everybody's happy with them, keep on keepin' on. But the barrier to entry has basically collapsed, if you're willing to learn how to maintain your own hobbyist-tier printer and to print to a high standard with technically-challenging resins like Sculpture/Titan. Couple ways you can skin this satisfactorily, depending on your lab setup and your resources. [/QUOTE]

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