SHINING 3D on the Importance of Digital Dentistry

3D scanners have found their way into many different sectors. One industry that has especially embraced them is dentistry. Thanks to 3D scanning, dentists can create fully customizable retainers and prosthetics for their patients. This can be done with either intraoral 3D scanners, scanners which go directly in a patient’s mouth to scan directly, or 3D dentist lab scanners which scan impressions. One of the leading companies in the arena of 3D digital manufacturing and digital dentistry is SHINING 3D. We spoke with Sunny Wong, the Managing Director of Overseas Business at SHINING 3D to learn more about their solutions, the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and how scanning can be used in the dental sector, especially after the pandemic.

3DN: Could you introduce yourself and SHINING 3D?

My name is Sunny Wong and I am the Managing Director of Overseas Business at SHINING 3D. Founded in 2004, SHINING 3D is a scientific and technological innovation enterprise focusing on high-precision 3D digitizing solutions with both hardware and software based on computer vision. SHINING 3D develops, manufactures and markets dental digitizing and professional 3D scanning equipment, software and 3D printers. SHINING 3D is committed to providing digital dental solutions, with intraoral 3D scanners and cloud service platform as the entrances, for dental visual consultation, restoration, orthodontics, implantation, and aesthetics, as well as high-precision 3D digitizing solutions of design and inspection in the fields of industrial manufacturing, cultural creativity, medical precision, education, scientific research and so on. SHINING 3D is dedicated to becoming an international influence enterprise, promoting the popularization of the high-precision 3D digital technology in diversified applications to all the users on a global scale.

Sunny Wong from SHINING 3D (photo credits: SHINING 3D)

3DN: Many industries were impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, was SHINING 3D? What changes did you make as a company?

One of SHINING 3D´s core missions is to create highly efficient and accessible digital manufacturing solutions. We develop our products by listening to our customer’s needs while at the same time strictly monitoring cost in the development process. When everything shut down in 2020, we were able to deliver solutions to keep people working remotely and with less contact with other people. During COVID times, although there are lot of new challenges on the supply chain, we continued to develop and deliver several new models of our scanners and printers.