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My mission: offering sustainable additive innovations in order to contribute to a better society & save peoples lives!It was about 14 years ago when I came into contact with the additive manufacturing technology also called 3D Printing. It was by then a hearing aid application and in those days and it was exactly at that particular moment that I totally got inspired for an adoption by the dental market. I was convinced that with 3D Printing we had a more sustainable technology, a more productive one, a more flexible and a faster technology in order to relieve the professionals.I asked myself an important question: “How to introduce the 3D printing technology successfully into the Dental market and can I be the first to do that surfing on the “milling” wave and can we make use of the existing infrastructure which was more or less under implementation”In 2014, 2015 and 2016 we tried to build partnerships with many Additive hardware manufacturers as well as the Dental Software companies. In those years we learned so much about the workflow starting from the scan up to the final printed object to be placed in the patients mouth.Then the first Milestone: January 23rd, 2016, Prof. Dr. Daniel Wismeijer implanted me on which I printed my own MFH crown, we were at the national news that day as well as on a lot of other press releases.It was only two months later when we achieved our next milestone: “Being the first company in the world achieving the Class 2A biocompatible certifications as well as for Crown and Bridge, Denture and Ortho applications.It was only 10 months later that we were acquired 100% by 3D Systems third milestone in a year. I knew by then that there was a massive and urgent need for a high-speed 3D printer which addresses the broadest range of indications; redefining the dental workflow for improved accuracy (within 50 microns), which shows repeatability & productivity with lower total cost of operation for the widest range of materials in the market by Nextdent.Nowadays contributing my experience in other industries segments to accelerate additive, since summer 2020 I am leading the Application Innovation group to innovate in application solution to drive business devellopment for all the Healthcare as well as the industrial segments within 3D Systems..Since 2022 I became CEO and started in my new role in assisting MRIguidance to make Radiation Free imaging solutions available to mankind as Radiation is a true Health concern, I left MRIguidance as per december 31st 2023, I decided to act as a consultant for 3D Dental Printing since

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