Recently I was having some dental work done (some crowns put on), and I was very intrigued by the technology that they were using–so intrigued that I decided to make a mini-documentary about the process. Basically, they were using desktop manufacturing (not quite 3-D printing, but something close) to make me a new crown on the spot, using computer assisted design.

Because I can't splice videos from my iPhone (and because of YouTube's length limit), there are two videos. The first shows how the crown is physiclaly manufactured (actually, the end of the process) and the second showing how the new tooth is designed on the computer.





Check them out.





(And don't worry. There is no drilling or anything like that in the documentary. The focus is exclusively on the tech.)

(BTW, sorry if the sound is low on your system. I'm still figuring out the best way to do this. At least this time I remembered to get the aspect ratio right!)















(Not Sarek–Spock's father–or Surak–Vulcan's major philospher. But given C-3P0 and Chewbacca, we're in that loose territory.)





BTW, I want to give a very special thank you to Dr. Adam Raschke, who was an excellent documentary partner. He was very articulate and informative, and without him I couldn't have produced this kind of documentary, which was totally unscripted (making up our words as we went along), unedited (no cuts, no splices, no rearrangements), and unrehearsed (no re-takes, no walk-throughs).



