Giacomo Anselmo

Giacomo Anselmo has over 30 years of experience in the dental industry, with a strong focus on digital workflows for dental laboratories and clinical integration. His career spans the full dental ecosystem, beginning as a dental technician and later founding and operating his own laboratory in Spain. This hands-on foundation has enabled him to develop a deep, practical understanding of the evolving needs, challenges, and opportunities within modern prosthodontics and dental production.

Throughout his career, Giacomo has collaborated with leading global dental companies, serving as a key opinion leader for organizations such as Dentsply Sirona, Nobel Biocare, Shera, and Vita. In addition to his technical expertise, he has held senior leadership roles in sales and marketing, successfully driving growth and transformation across EMEA, LATAM, and global markets. His recent roles include leading global dental sales at 3D Systems. He currently serves as the Global Dental Commercial Leader at Stratasys.

Giacomo is widely recognized for his expertise in digital dentistry, workflow optimization, and the integration of advanced manufacturing technologies into dental practice and laboratory environments. He has contributed to numerous international conferences and educational initiatives, sharing insights on the future of dental workflows and innovation.

Monolithic Polychromatic Prosthetic Solutions

Introduction: Conventional complete denture prosthetic fabrication is constrained by inherent material limitations and processing variables that compromise dimensional accuracy and aesthetic fidelity. The emergence of monolithic polychromatic prosthetics represents a paradigm shift in removable prosthodontics, enabling biomimetic replication of natural dentition through multi-material jetting and voxel-based volumetric colour technology.

Description: A literature-based presentation supplemented by clinical cases evaluating dimensional accuracy, trueness, precision, voxel-level tooth aesthetics, reproducibility, and patient-reported aesthetic outcomes for multi-material jetted monolithic prosthetics will be presented. Clinical cases illustrate efficiency, predictability and patient satisfaction of monolithic polychromatic complete removable prosthetics.

Discussion: Reviewed clinical evidence demonstrates that polyjet/multi-material jetting achieves high dimensional accuracy with precise internal material deposition, enabling simultaneous fabrication of denture base and tooth structures in a single additive manufacturing build. Voxel-based colour programming in CAM software creates internal mamelon structure, incisal translucency, and cervical gradient for tooth characterization within a monolithic prosthesis. Why eliminating manual interfaces of extrinsic composite tooth layering and base pocket tooth bonding decreases prosthetic variables while increasing clinical and patient satisfaction.

Conclusions: PolyJet voxel technology directly addresses longstanding aesthetic and mechanical deficiencies of removable prosthetics, offering a reproducible, fully digitalized pathway to biomimetic outcomes. Integration of multi-material additive manufacturing into complete prosthetic workflows has significant prosthodontic implications for reproducible aesthetics, better fitting and functioning prosthetics creating patient-centered care across edentulous and implant-retained indications.

Keywords: digital dentures, PolyJet additive manufacturing, multi-material jetting, voxel technology, polychromatic prosthetics, biomimetic aesthetics, CAD/CAM prosthetics