The Dangerous Trend of DIY Orthodontics

A college undergrad struggling with money and access to a 3D printer took matters into his own hands to correct his teeth.

You might have seen around the web a story about a guy who printed his own 3D plastic aligners to fix his crooked teeth. “I wasn’t smiling, and it was because I was unhappy with my teeth,” Amos Dudley wrote on his blog. He took a mold of his teeth with “some cheap alginate powder” and a 3D printed impression tray to see what his teeth were really like and realized that his print was very similar to the product Invisalign. He saw that he could essentially get all the materials he needed to print his own aligners with the help of some orthodontic textbooks. But not after some extensive research, according to