Dental 3D Scanning and Printing

Richard McComas is Senior Editor covering Dental Industry Trends in 3D Printing and Scanning. Richard has a Masters Degree in Education and speaks at industry conferences and develops workflows and curriculum for 3d techhnology education in Dentistry. Richard is an Industry Analyst and Opinion Leader who has written, researched and covered consumer and professional technologies for more than 10 years as both a journalist and market researcher.

TruPrint 2000 From TRUMPF Revealed At Formnext 2019

Details: Published: Friday, 03 April 2020 23:05

TruPrint 2000 From TRUMPF Revealed At Formnext 2019

TRUMPF, a German High-Tech Company launched a new 3D Printer- TruPrint 2000, at Frankfurt’s Formnext 2019, which is believed to be compatible with environment of aerospace, automotive, mechanical engineering, tool and mold making, as well as the medical and dental engineering industries. The machine processes the printing powder in an inert gas environment, which prevents contaminants from infiltrating the powder circuit and is a key advantage for applications such as sensitive medical devices. The TruPrint 2000 features a multilaser design with two 300-watt lasers working in tandem and is capable of printing parts out of Titanium. Additionally, the machine includes automated powder bed and melts pool quality monitoring, notification in the event of an error, and an end-to-end documentation trail.

3D Systems Gets FDA 510(k) Clearance For NextDent Denture 3D+ Biomaterial

Details: Published: Friday, 03 April 2020 23:02

3D Systems Gets FDA 510k Clearance For NextDent Denture 3D Biomaterial

3D Systems has received FDA 510(k) Clearance for their Biocompatible Dental Material, NextDent Denture 3D+, developed for use on the NextDent 5100 3D printing platform. According to 3D Systems, combination with the NextDent C&B MFH material, which has been designed to print the teeth of a denture, users can save up to 90% in cost and 75% in time for producing the base of denture. The new material also possesses excellent mechanical properties in accordance with ISO Denture Base Standards and the comprehensive colour palette allows dental labs are able to match the printed product to the patient’s gums.

Voodoo Manufacturing Partners With Formalabs 3D To Produce Clear Aligners

Details: Published: Friday, 03 April 2020 23:01

Voodoo Manufacturing Partners With Formalabs 3D To Produce Clear Aligners

Voodoo Manufacturing produces and distributes 3D Printed Clear Orthodontic Aligners for direct-to-consumer brands. Now, they have launched Voodoo Clear Aligners, a new dental manufacturing and distribution service, for its first partnering direct-to-consumer brand Smilelove, and expanded its high-volume 3D Printing factory. The Company states that with the addition of Formlabs 3D Printers, they will be able manufacture and ship more than 20,000 unique orthodontic clear aligners each month in the near future. Currently it can manufacture 20,000 aligner moulds a month with its current set-up, which would see around 700 patients receive treatment, but is planning to scale by four times before the end of year, producing 80,000 moulds a month for 2,800 patients.

IDS 2019 Sees Collaboration Between BEGO & Nexa3D To Launch Varseo XL 3D Printer For Dental Solutions

Details: Published: Sunday, 29 March 2020 01:35

IDS 2019 Sees Collaboration Between BEGO Nexa3D To Launch Varseo XL 3D Printer For Dental Solutions

This year’s IDS Summit 2019 held at Cologne, Germany, saw collaboration between California’s Nexa3D, a manufacturer of 3D printers offering stereolithography (SLA) for production-grade users, and BEGO, a provider of materials for dentist’s offices. Together, they are marketing the Varseo XL, to be sold by BEGO, headquartered in Germany. The new dental 3D printer is customized with Nexa3D’s proprietary Lubricant Sublayer Photo-curing (LSPc) technology, which functions via a high-speed light matrix, and will allow dental offices to print six times faster at ten times the volume, with a print area that is five times greater than any other dental 3D printer on the market. The Varseo XL will be showcased at IDS 2019 at booth M20/N29 – Hall 10.2, Koelnmesse, Fair Grounds, Cologne-Deutz until the fair closes on March 19, 2019.

Smile Direct Club Collaborates With HP To Produce 20 Million 3D Printed Clear Aligners

Details: Published: Sunday, 29 March 2020 01:32

Smile Direct Club Collaborates With HP To Produce 20 Million 3D Printed Clear Aligners

SmileDirectClub, a company founded in 2014 by Alex Fenkell and Jordan Katzman, has provided over 1 Million users with Custom Clear Aligners with pricing as low as 3$/Day. The Company has now partnered with HP to produce 20 million 3D printed molds over the next 12 months, targeted at more than 50,000 molds a day. The company will be using 49 of HP’s Multi Jet Fusion 3D Printing technology to manufacture the molds 24/7 with 6,300 workforces at 391 locations, therefore giving a tough competition to Invisalign.

LightForce Orthodontics Revolutionises Dental Braces By Customized 3D Printed Bracket System

Details: Published: Sunday, 29 March 2020 01:30

LightForce Orthodontics Revolutionises Dental Braces By Customized 3D Printed Bracket System

Dr. Alfred Griffin, founder and CEO of the LightForce Orthodontics, a Start-up created on the idea of creating Patient-Specific Brackets using 3D Printing, aims at evolving with the Orthodontics industry and provide better innovative ideas in the field. Alfred created a patented system for 3D printed Orthodontic Treatment Brackets, using material nearly identical to injection modelled ceramic brackets, but formulated specifically for 3D printing. It’s a simple three-step digital workflow: scan, create the 3D model, and print. The online interface comes with cloud-based treatment planning software that allows users to make adjustments directly on the model, before the custom 3D printed appliance is shipped in just 7-10 business days after approval.

3D Printed Models For Dental Traumatology Offer Better Training Case Scenarios

Details: Published: Sunday, 29 March 2020 01:28

3D Printed Models For Dental Traumatology Offer Better Training Case Scenarios

German Researchers used SLA 3D Printer to create much realistic model for Case Scenarios based on the CBCT of the maxilla of a real patient that imitated several traumatic dental injuries, which was then used in a hands-on training course on Dental traumatology for undergraduate students in their final year in the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology in Munich, Germany. While half of the students were provided with access to dentaltraumaguide.org, the others didn’t. The students were then evaluated, where 57% reported it to be ‘very realistic’ and 43% choosing ‘rather realistic’, therefore concluding that 3D Printed Dental Models assisted students in correctly managing traumatic dental injuries.

Porous Ti6Al4V Yields Better Dental Surgeries For Bone Defects

Details: Published: Sunday, 29 March 2020 01:27

Porous Ti6Al4V Yields Better Dental Surgeries For Bone Defects

Researchers from Taiwan worked on improved methods of accommodating bone defects after failed implants must be removed using 3D Printing. Bio-Active Dental implant, which were manufactured with laser-sintered additive 3D printing technique, were used in animal experiments where one side of distal femurs was randomly selected for the commercially pure titanium NobelActive implant (control group) and the other side with Bio-Active Ti₆Al₄V porous dental implant (ITRI group). After Bio-printing with EOSINT M 280 system, the researchers concluded that by enlarging pore width at the nanoscale, they can to increase bioactivity features as well as accelerate osseogenesis during Dental Surgeries.

Researchers Provide 3D Printed Medical Models To Practice Dental Surgeries Better

Details: Published: Saturday, 28 March 2020 16:36

Researchers Provide 3D Printed Medical Models To Practice Dental Surgeries Better

A team of researchers, led by Dr. Wong from NUS National Centre for Oral Health, received a grant from the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC). With the grant received, the team worked towards creating a method for combining materials in order to create 3D printed impacted tooth models that include pulp, the pulp chamber, nearby nerves, and simulated periodontal ligaments, followed by mounting of the 3D printed model onto a mannequin head that features artificial cheeks. The 3D Printed Models of the Dentations will help the students practice the surgical procedures and thereby, boost the confidence for the real ones when the opportunity comes.

3D Printed Intra-Oral Splint Used To Relieve Jaw Pain

Details: Published: Saturday, 21 March 2020 16:56

3D Printed Intra Oral Splint Used To Relieve Jaw Pain

A group of Researchers in Italy approached 3D Printing to create Intraoral Occlusal Splints, which are used by dentists to treat temporomandibular disorders as they force muscles to relax and provide relief from pain. A 44-year-old man with unknown medical cause for pain in his jaws, was selected and fit with Intraoral Occlusal Splint to stop the pain and reposition the mandible. The team scanned the teeth of the patient and saved it as .stl file, followed by using 3D ProJet MJP 3600 Dental by 3D Systems to 3D print the Intraoral Splint, with VisiJet® M3 Stoneplast acrylic resin, made for dental practices. The patient got relief of the pain within three weeks and has been advised to keep using the splint for another six months.

Auto Stacking Feature For Rapid Production Of Orthodontics By 3D Systems

Details: Published: Saturday, 21 March 2020 00:27

Auto Stacking Feature For Rapid Production Of Orthodontics By 3D Systems

3D Systems, headquartered in Rock Hill, South Carolina, is a company that engineers, manufactures and sells 3D printers and is one of the leaders in field of 3D Printing. Recently at LMT Lab Day at Chicago, they announced a software workflow for 3D printing up to 30 orthodontic models in a single print using its NexDent 5100 3D printer, NextDent Model 2.0 Software, and 3D Sprint software. The new auto-stacking feature will be available in NextDent 5200 users and will make it possible to automatically prepare and place dental models on the build plate with a single click.

Prodways Launches Manufacturing Ecosystem For Clear Aligners

Details: Published: Friday, 20 March 2020 21:48

Prodways Launches Manufacturing Ecosystem For Clear Aligners

Prodways, a firm developed in partnership with 3Shape, Full Contour, Imes-Icore and Dreve, announced its own Ecosystem at LMT Lab Day 2020 held in Chicago. The Ecosystem aims at manufacturing upto 1200 Dental Aligners per day. The company also owns MOVINGLight DLP, ideal for batch production of products like dental molds for aligners and also acquired SolidScape recently. It will, however, face a competition against companies like HP, which claim to produce 50,000 Aligners per day via Smile Direct Club.

Arfona Emerges At LMT Day With Huge Upgrades And New Filament

Details: Published: Friday, 20 March 2020 21:12

Arfona Emerges At LMT Day With Huge Upgrades And New Filament

During the LMT Lab Day Event held at Chicago, New York, Arfona made some huge announcements regarding their upcoming updates. Arfona is a New York-based dental tech startup, which was founded in 2016 by several 3D printing enthusiasts and dental technicians, and specializes in thermoplastic 3D printed dental prosthetics. After the 3D printed flexible partial denture, they have now come up with new FILAdent material – a thermoplastic PMMA filament that can be used to 3D print denture teeth when combined with Valplast’s partial dentures. PMMA, or poly(methyl methacrylate), is inert, biocompatible, and easy to obtain, and has been used to make cranial implants previously.

Align Technology Strengthens Itself By Acquiring Exocad For 376 Million Euro

Details: Published: Friday, 20 March 2020 21:12

Align Technology Strengthens Itself By Acquiring Exocad For 376 Million Euro

Align Technology, a leading Orthodontic Company using 3D Printing has made a recent announcement with press release stating they will now acquire Global Dental CAD/CAM software firm, Exocad. The two companies have signed a cash deal for the purchase of the privately held company for around 376 million Euro which is expected to close during the second quarter of 2020. The two companies see it as an opportunity to expand the orthodontic market for doctors by integrating clear aligner orthodontics and restorative treatment with flexible, reliable, and easy-to-use CAD/CAM software and digital workflows.

3D Printed Dentures Made With Hybrid Nanocomposite Yield Excellent Results

Details: Published: Friday, 20 March 2020 18:27

3D Printed Dentures Made With Hybrid Nanocomposite Yield Excellent Results

35 Patients participated in a jont study for Dentures and received 3D Printed Dentures made from a composite material, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)–nanoTiO2. Researchers from Turkey and Romania then studied the quality and outcomes of the dentures using questionnaires for the participants that involved 49 questions in total regarding the usability and efficiency of these compared to usual dentures. The dentures were created on an EnvisionTEC Perfactory 3D printer, featuring a layer thickness from 25μm to 150μm. Patients noted ‘significant improvement’ related to their oral health as the dentures provided good retention and stability.

Zortrax Launches 3D Printing Resins And Surigcal Guide For Dental And Prosthetic Use

Details: Published: Friday, 20 March 2020 18:09

Zortrax Launches 3D Printing Resins And Surigcal Guide For Dental And Prosthetic Use

Zortrax recently launched two brand new Resins for its latest Inkspire 3D Printing Platform for dental and prosthetic applications. Raydent Crown & Bridge is class IIa biocompatible, lasts 30 days, is safe for human contact and can boasts high abrasion resistance guaranteeing permanent smooth surfaces and anatomical shape for the duration of its usage. Another product involved Raydent Surgical Guide, Class I biocompatibility, which is safe for transient contact with human tissue, translucent to enhance visibility, features high dimensional accuracy to enable correct placement of implants or guidance for tools, and low viscosity and water resistance to make the guides easy to wash.

Porimy From China Unleashes 3D Printer to Create Dentures in One Week

Details: Published: Sunday, 05 January 2020 11:14

Porimy from China unleashes 3D Printer to create Dentures in One Week

Porimy 3D Printing Technology Co., Ltd, a start-up offshoot of the Kunshan Industrial Technology Research Institute, China, has announced their high-performance 3D Printer that can 3D Print Dentures after 3D scanning for a superior fit. They also released a ceramic slurry to 3D Print the prosthesis using the 3D Printer, which will cost around ¥700,000 to ¥800,000, translating to around $110,000 US.

Dental Implants Better With 3D Printing Than Conventional Methods

Details: Published: Friday, 03 January 2020 17:34

Dental Implants Better With 3D Printing Than Conventional Methods

Dr. Les Kalman at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry has developed a dental implant abutment system called the Tempcap in collaboration with ADEISS, a 3D Printing Company dedicated to medical and dental 3D printing solutions. Using Renishaw 3D printers, ADEISS worked on designing and 3D printing a version of the dental device in dental-grade titanium for testing, which was proved to increase the provisional crown quality and reduce the time required to fabricate the provisional crown for mandibular implant sites.

3D Printed Braces with NIR Tech for Faster Healing

Details: Published: Wednesday, 27 November 2019 23:06

Braces 3D Printed Infrared

A group of researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have used 3D printing to incorporate NIR therapy directly into dental braces. Near infrared (NIR) light therapy is a technique used for speeding healing and relieving pain. The brace is customizable and provides sufficient external loading to stimulate healthy rebuilding of the bone structures.

Sisma Introduces EVERES UNO at Lab Management Today 2019 in Chicago

Details: Published: Monday, 25 February 2019 17:34

sisma UNO

At Lab Management Today in Chicago, Sisma introduced the EVERES ZERO and EVERES UNO professional 3D printers based on DLP "Digital Light Processing" technology. EVERES innovations include a Click & Make software function, self-alignment of the building platform, non-degenerative resin vat, high printing speed, self-loading/unloading of the resin.

Researchers Work On High Resolution 3D Printing Process TCMIP-SL For Dental Crowns

Details: Published: Saturday, 12 January 2019 16:29

Researchers Work On New High Resolution 3D Printing Process Called TCMIP SL For Dental Crowns

A group of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are working on using an SLA 3D printing method to manufacture temporary teeth restorations. Temperature Controlled Mask image projection-based stereolithography (TCMIP-SL) processes use a set of horizontal planes to slice a 3D object, and each slice is converted into a 2D mask image. Then, a 2D patterned light beam, which is controlled by a digital micromirror device (DMD), is projected on the surface of a photocurable material, which is then cured layer by layer to build the 3D object.

Ashford Orthodontics Go Digital To Help 3D Print Dental Aligners

Details: Published: Sunday, 07 October 2018 17:47

Ashford Orthodontics Go Digital To Help 3D Print Dental Aligners

The largest orthodontic laboratory in the United Kingdom is Ashford Orthodontics, which was founded in 2001 by Sean Thompson. Working with Formlabs Form 2 and aligners models, the new scans sent by the clients are 3D Printed overnight which are then delivered to the clinicians arriving within the next 48 hours. They have gone fully digital, abolishing the traditional route which helps the client in cost and time savings.

Dental Crowns and Bridges Gets Tweaked by Temasek Polytechnic Using 3d Printing

Details: Published: Tuesday, 24 April 2018 01:46

Dental Crowns and Bridges Gets Tweaked by Temasek Polytechnic Using 3d Printing

Temasek Polytechnic, a university in Singapore, is developing a new technique for better, faster, and cheaper Dental Crowns and Bridges, as a result of 3D printing. The technique involves creation of a traditional impression that is then turned into a form, which is scanned to create a digital model and in turn, the mold for shaping the exterior and interior metal form to attach the prosthetic to the receiving tooth.

3D Printed Braces with Redesigned Batteries and LEDs are the future of Orthodontic Alignment

Details: Published: Thursday, 05 April 2018 13:08

Smart Braces LED Battery

Researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed an orthodontic system that uses smart 3D printed braces and flexible, non-toxic batteries. The system consists of a semitransparent, 3D printed dental brace that places two near-infrared LEDs on each tooth, along with one lithium-ion battery to power the LEDs, which provide localized light therapy to the teeth. The redesigned state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery technology are flexible with biosafe encapsulation within the braces to make a smart dental brace.

Indian Researchers Evaluate Traditional Metal Manufacturing Against 3D Printing Dental Copings

Details: Published: Wednesday, 14 February 2018 07:35

Indian Researchers Evaluate Traditional Metal Manufacturing Methods Against 3D Printing For Dental Copings

A group of researchers from the Sri Rajiv Gandhi College of Dental Sciences & Hospital in Bangalore, India evaluated the marginal accuracy of Cobalt-Chromium copings (thin covering of the tooth’s crown portion) fabricated using DMLS, computer-aided milling, traditional casting, and ringless casting and comparatively analyze the marginal discrepancy. They used typodont resin model made of silicone impression material and 40 copings, for which they used 3D laser scanner from 3Shape to obtain an indirect impression of the tooth model, and then used the data to design the coping in 3Shape’s CAD software program, before they were 3D printed on an EOSINT M 270 3D printer from EOS.

Prophix, the world’s first video toothbrush

Details: Published: Friday, 02 February 2018 07:57

Prophix Product Shot 2

The world’s first video toothbrush, as a powerful tool for customers to take control of their dental health. While it’s still necessary to visit the dentist regularly, using a Prophix may mean few unscheduled visits or dreadful surgeries. The 3D printed prototype was beautiful to behold.

XYZprinting announced 3-way Partnership with Nexa3D and BEGO

Details: Published: Monday, 27 November 2017 23:18

XYZprinting Partnership

XYZprinting, one of the top desktop 3D printer manufacturer has announced a 3-way partnership with Nexa3D and BEGO. Nexa3D manufactures ultra-fast, professional SLA 3D printers that use its patented Lubricant Sublayer Photo-curing (LSPc) technology while BEGO is a family-owned German company which has pioneered SLM dental 3D printing. The three will work together to modernize the era of Digital Dentistry.

Volunteering Woman receives Robotic Surgery for 3D Printed Teeth Implant

Details: Published: Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:07

Robotic dentist

The first ever Robotic Dentist which placed a 3D Printed Teeth Implant in a woman in china on September 16 in Xian, Shaanxi, China. The woman volunteered for the autonomous surgery by the Robotic Dentist which was developed over the past four years by researchers with the Beihang University Institute of Robotics and the Fourth Military Medical University’s affiliated Stomatological Hospital.

Structo and Materialise collaboration results in PrintWorks Pro for Dental 3D Printing

Details: Published: Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:05

Structo

The partnership of Structo, a manufacturer of SLA 3D printers specifically for dental applications and Materialise has resulted in launch of Structo’s PrintWorks software and now, the two have introduced Structo PrintWorks Pro, a customized version of Materialise Magics Print that is designed to simplify 3D print file preparation for dental professionals using Structo 3D printers. The software features semi-automatic support generation, which reduces support removal time by 82% compared to conventional software.

3D Printing Gives Egyptian Mummy New Life

Details: Published: Sunday, 08 October 2017 07:11

mummy
The face of an ancient female Egyptian mummy has been reconstructed with the help of 3D printing and forensic science techniques, an important step to better understand who she was. This reconstruction was only made possible due to the work of a multi-disciplinary team led by scientists at Melbourne University, combining medical research, forensic science, computerised tomographic (CT) scanning, 3D printing, Egyptology and art.

Sea Urchins' Teeth Sparks Ideas

Details: Published: Thursday, 03 August 2017 07:51

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A 3D printed claw to explore Mars has been created by scientists ... inspired by the humble sea urchin's teeth. The device could be used to sample rocks from the Red Planet and other mysterious world's thanks to the spiny creature's extraordinary mouth.

Dubai Health Authority Working on a 3D printing Dental Services

Details: Published: Friday, 21 April 2017 06:39

dubai

Dubai Health Authority is working on a 3D printing strategy for medical services. Dubai Health Authority stresses the importance of utilizing smart technology especially 3D printing in diagnosing, preventing and treating patients and sees dental care as a sector with huge potential.

Turmpf Introduces TruPrint 1000 at IDS in Cologne

Details: Published: Friday, 31 March 2017 19:01

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The TruPrint 1000 was introduced at the International Dental Show in Cologne Germany as a faster laser melting solution for large labs. Fitted with two 200 W fiber lasers at a wavelength of around 1,070 nm, the TruPrint can print up to 80% faster than other selective laser melting 3d printers.

3Shape Introduces Trios 3 at IDS - Fastest Dental Intraoral Scanner

Details: Published: Friday, 31 March 2017 17:17

trios3 intraoral scanner

The speed and accuracy of intraoral scanning has long been considered the technology bottleneck in adoption of digital dentistry. At IDS in Cologne, the largest dental tradeshow in the world, 3Shape introduced their new wireless intraoral scanner, and held a scanning competition with some dentists completing full arch scans in under 20 seconds.

Ivoclar Introduces Permanent Milled Digital Denture Solution at IDS

Details: Published: Friday, 31 March 2017 17:12

Digital Denture

In conjunction with the new Programill milling solutions, Ivoclar announced new PMMA pucks in gum and tooth shade materials which can be merged to create one of the first truly strong millable permanent dentures. As the population ages, market opportunities in digital dentures are expected to grow dramatically in coming years employing both additive and subtractive technologies.

Implant Alternatives - A 3D Printed Titanium Root-Based Implant Shown at IDS

Details: Published: Thursday, 30 March 2017 17:29

REPLICATE Tooth 3D Print 2017 MAR 14

Natural Dental Implants AG (NDI) today announced the development of a 3D printed version of their REPLICATE Tooth. NDI began working on its first generation of customized tooth replacement milled teeth in 2006, and presented a 3D printed version at the International Dental Show in 2017, featuring a titanium root portion and a zirconia abutment portion.

Royal Canin Launches Dental Learning Tool for Cats and Dogs

Details: Published: Monday, 13 March 2017 07:44

Dog dental model

Royal Canin’s veterinary marketing manager Marianne Lomberg said: "These high-quality and accurate models will be a valuable addition to the education resources available to veterinary schools and professionals – ultimately helping contribute to a higher standard of dental care available to cats and dogs.”

Newest Advancements in Cosmetic Dentistry

Details: Published: Saturday, 25 February 2017 05:29

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What does aesthetic dentistry have to offer the discerning dental patient both now and potentially in the not-too-distant future? The possibility of fabricating 3D teeth with antimicrobial properties is already being explored.

Unique challenges by Orthodontists now solved with technology

Details: Published: Wednesday, 11 January 2017 07:15

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There’s no pain or discomfort, and young patients find it “cool” to watch their teeth begin to take shape in 3D on the computer screen. A trip to the orthodontist has suddenly become a high-tech, almost futuristic, experience. In this specific case, taking digital impressions instead of traditional impressions.

Have a confident smile with this 'Invisible' alignment

Details: Published: Monday, 19 December 2016 06:22

invasalign

Invisalign treatment has been growing in popularity since its launch in 1999, and its reach has spread around the world. Its use of digital scanning, computer modelling and 3D printing enables it to produce customised teeth aligners that steadily move the teeth into place over the period prescribed to each patient.

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