Most dentists who considered 3D printing a few years ago saw a steep learning curve and walked away. AI just changed that, and SprintRay Co-Founder Hoss Bassir explains exactly how.
In Part 3 of The DrBicuspid.com Podcast series sponsored by SprintRay, Editor-in-Chief Kevin Henry sits down with Hoss Bassir, co-founder and chief product officer at SprintRay, for a conversation about what AI is actually doing inside dental 3D printing right now -- not someday, but today, in practices already using the technology.
Bassir has been building dental 3D printing technology for more than 11 years. His take on AI is specific, grounded, and refreshingly honest about both what works and what the industry still needs to figure out.
What's covered in this episode:
- Why appliance design -- not hardware -- was always the real barrier to 3D-printing adoption
- How SprintRay's AI night guard became one of the fastest-growing features on their platform
- SprintRay's AI crown workflow produces a scan-to-print-ready design in under five minutes, with clinician review built in
- How AI is compressing SprintRay's internal product development timeline and what that means for practices
- Why AI-powered scanners are catching areas that need to be rescanned before a bad impression becomes a bad restoration
- How diagnostic AI tools like Pearl complement rather than replace clinical judgment
- The carpenter analogy: why a new tool is just a new tool and why dentistry tends to be slower to adopt than it should be
- Whether AI and 3D printing should already be considered the standard of care in dentistry
This episode is Part 3 of a series. Part 1 with SprintRay's John Cox covers the return on investment, the workflow, and the 17-plus chairside applications of 3D printing.
Part 2 with Dr. Meena Barsoum explored how 3D printing fits in with same-day dentistry.
