SensAble Dental Lab Gets Popular Science Magazine Award
 WOBURN,
MA, Nov 19, 2008 - SensAble Technologies, Inc, the leading provider
of touch-enabled modeling solutions and haptic devices, today
announced that its SensAble Dental Lab System won a coveted 2008
“Best of What’s New” award given annually by Popular Science
magazine. SensAble’s integrated hardware/software system allows
dental lab technicians to use technology appealing to the
NintendoWii generation in their daily work to scan, design and
fabricate multiple types of common dental restorations, such as
partial dentures and crown and bridge. By uniquely incorporating
haptics, or “artificial touch,” SensAble’s system allows dental lab
technicians to work digitally, while keeping the manual dexterity
and sense of touch they’re accustomed to. It also helps labs of all
sizes and levels of computer savvy to attract young technicians to a
mature field, while replacing time and labor-intensive manual
processes.
A winner in the Personal Health category, the SensAble Dental Lab
System allows lab technicians to design dental restorations using a
PHANTOM haptic (touch-enabled) device instead of a computer mouse.
Lab technicians use virtual wax-up tools to literally “feel” the
on-screen model as they apply, smooth and carve “digital wax.” This
touch-enabled system mimics the traditional method of hand modeling
dental restorations that many technicians have spent decades
perfecting – yet adds the precision and repeatability of a digital
system.
SensAble’s system is also the first integrated digital solution
to support the production process for partial dentures, as well as
crown and bridge -- giving dental labs more ways to leverage their
system investment, and new opportunities to add to or expand their
business. Typically a lower margin, complex dental prosthetic,
partials have seen little technology innovation, and production has
increasingly been outsourced – often overseas. With the SensAble
Dental Lab system, lab owners now have a cost-effective solution to
help them regain local control and recapture business. Labs can
design more restorations in less time -- while maintaining greater
precision and fast turnaround to dentists and their patients.
“Our lab is completing digital partials in half the time, as well
as saving time and money with materials with the SensAble Dental Lab
System,” said Scott Udell, co-owner of Udell Dental Laboratory in
St. Louis Park, MN. The patient work designed with the SensAble
system is more accurate and easier to fabricate, and the system’s
versatility really helped us to cost-justify the investment to ‘go
digital.’”
“We’re honored by the Best of What’s New award,” said Bob
Steingart, president and general manager of dental products for
SensAble Technologies. “While our lab customers are reaping the
benefits of working digitally, their customers – the dentists and
their patients – are also benefiting. A dentist even told one of our
lab customers, “I don’t know what you did, but these are the best
parts I’ve ever seen.” This type of feedback indicates that, with
SensAble parts, dentists are making fewer chairside adjustments, and
therefore patients are spending less time in the dentist’s office –
which makes everybody happy.”
“For 21 years, Popular Science’s Best of What's New awards honor
the innovations that make a positive impact on life today and change
our views of the future,” says Mark Jannot, Editor-in-Chief of
Popular Science. “PopSci’s editors evaluate thousands of products
each year to develop this thoughtful list, there’s no higher
accolade Popular Science can give.”
About Best of What's New
Each year, the editors of Popular Science review thousands of
products in search of the top 100 tech innovations of the year;
breakthrough products and technologies that represent a significant
leap in their categories. The winners — the Best of What's New — are
awarded inclusion in the much-anticipated December issue of Popular
Science, the most widely read issue of the year since the debut of
Best of What's New in 1987. Best of What’s New awards are presented
to 100 new products and technologies in 11 categories: Automotive,
Aviation & Space, Computing, Engineering, Gadgets, Green Tech, Home
Entertainment, Securities, Home Tech, Personal Health and
Recreation.
About Popular Science
Founded in 1872, Popular Science is the world’s largest science
and technology magazine; with a circulation of 1.3 million and 6.8
million monthly readers. Each month, Popular Science reports on the
intersection of science and everyday life, with an eye toward what’s
new and why it matters. Popular Science is published by Bonnier
Active Media, a subsidiary of Bonnier Corporation.
About SensAble Technologies
Founded in 1993, SensAble Technologies is a leading developer of
3D touch-enabled (force feedback) solutions and technology that
allow users to not only see and hear an on-screen computer
application, but to actually ‘feel’ it. With 34 patents granted and
over 6,000 systems installed worldwide, SensAble Technologies'
haptic technology is being used in applications ranging from
designing toys and footwear, to surgical simulation and stroke
rehabilitation, to dental restorations, as well as a range of
research and robotic applications. The company markets its own 3D
modeling solutions as well as its haptic devices and developer
toolkits to medical, dental, design, and manufacturing companies;
educational and research institutions; and OEMs. SensAble products
are available through direct and reseller channels worldwide.
For more information, visit
www.sensabledental.com.
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