Kulzer Helps Texas Inmates Rediscover Solid Food...and Their Smiles

cara®Scan 4.0, cara®Print 4.0 and Kulzer make 3D-printed dentures feasible for edentulous inmates South Bend, IN/7.25.2019.Kulzer, a global leader in dental materials, announced today that its cara Scan 4.0 and cara Print 4.0 are now making it possible for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to provide dentures to edentulous inmates in an affordable and timely manner. Until 2003, the Texas prison system routinely provided dentures for edentulous inmates through an in-house vocational program that fabricated them on site. But as the state ’s prisons came out from under federal oversight, that program ended for unclear reasons. A policy took effect whereby dentures were being approved only in situations of “medical necessity.” Unfortunately, being unable to chew was not deemed to meet this criterion. As a result, by 2016, only71 dentures were approved for the Texas prison population of moreHowever, in late 2018, Texas prison officials announced plans to change policies: their goal was to hire a denture specialist, start a denture clinic, train unit dentists to better identify when dentures are necessary, and review all denture-related grievances from the past year to re-evaluate any prisoners who filed complaints. Officials subsequently decided to purchase Kulzer ’s new cara Scan 4.0 scanner, cara Print 4.0 3D printer, HiLite power 3D post-curing unit, Flexitime impression material, and Pala tray system for the Huntsville prison’s clinic.“The proces...
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