Formlabs is Open
Freedom to print your favorite third-party materials on the most reliable dental platform.
Print with best-in-class Formlabs Dental resins or third-party resins. Fine-tune print settings for tailored print performance, or experiment with any 405 nm photopolymer resin. Together, these solutions provide maximum flexibility on the industry’s most trusted dental 3D printers.
Any Application, Total Flexibility
Form 4B and Form 4BL 3D printers include Open Material Mode (OMM)*, enabling the printing of any 405 nm photopolymer third-party dental resin on the most reliable and accessible dental 3D printers. Validated print settings are available for dozens of materials already, with many more coming soon.
*For printers purchased before January 12, 2026, OMM can be purchased separately.
For material suppliers: If you are interested in marketing your material’s compatibility with a Formlabs printer through Open Material Mode, please fill out this form.
Featured Third Party Materials
Lucitone
Digital Print Denture™ System
Open Material Mode
For natural-looking and high-impact full dentures and try-ins
Lucitone Digital Print Denture™ System empowers dental professionals to streamline their production and create highly accurate, natural-looking digital dentures quickly and easily with Form 4B and Open Material Mode.
Pac-Dent
Rodin® Titan & Rodin® Sculpture 2.0
Open Material Mode
Provisional full-arch restorations (All-on-X), Hybrid dentures, and Predominantly ceramic filled permanent crowns
Create immediate screw-retain full-arch restorations, impact-resistant provisional hybrid dentures, and permanent crowns with over 60% ceramic filler content using Pac-Dent Rodin® Titan and Pac-Dent Rodin® Sculpture 2.0 with the blazing fast Form 4B and Open Material Mode.
“With Open Material Mode, you're no longer restricted to Formlabs resins, opening up competitive options from other manufacturers. You can select materials based on specific case requirements, cost considerations, or personal preferences.”
Dr. Ahmad Al-Hassiny,
Director, Institute of Digital Dentistry
“The Formlabs Form 4B is fast and precise, and now, Open Material Mode takes it to the next level. Now, we can print with materials we already enjoy working with, like Dentsply Lucitone Digital Print Denture™ System, and Pac-Dent Rodin resins right on an ecosystem that we enjoy working with today.”
Dr. Michael Scherer,
DMD, MS
How Open Material Mode Works
Download settings validated by resin manufacturers and tailor print performance by customizing a range of settings in Print Settings Editor.
Everything You Need to Grow Your Dental Business With 3D Printing
Formlabs dental 3D printers are available for purchase in packages that include all of the tools required to bring reliable and high-precision 3D printing into your lab. Contact Formlabs or an Authorized Reseller today.
