Making night guards and splints in-house

Five steps, from the chair back to the chair. NexorCAD does the second and the third.

• Scan both arches with your intraoral scanner and export STL or PLY.
• Design the splint in NexorCAD, in nine steps.
• Export the STL and the case report.
• Print and post-process following your resin manufacturer's instructions.
• Fit and adjust the splint at the chair.

An intraoral scanner, a computer with a recent browser, and a printer and resin suitable for occlusal splints, or someone who prints for you. No CAD licence or workstation.

A trained member of the team. The route is the same on every case and takes about an afternoon to learn. The blockout, the outline and the occlusal table are calculated; that person checks each result and corrects it where needed.

By default the splint comes out with balanced contacts on the canines, a light contact on the incisors and 20 µm of clearance on the posteriors in centric, canine guidance in laterality and anterior guidance on the incisors in protrusion. The contacts are shown on the splint before export, to be checked.

NexorCAD is design software. The clinician decides whether the splint is indicated, reviews the design and remains responsible for what is made and fitted. The software does not print, choose your material or diagnose.