Longstanding WILD customer Lithoz recently presented
LithaBite, a state-of-the-art aluminium oxide material for 3D-printed translucent brackets, heralding a new era in dental medicine.

Around 200,000 people – children, teenagers and adults alike – undergo orthodontic treatment in Austria each year. In Germany, that figure is over 1.3 million. The overwhelming majority of them receive fixed brackets. In most cases, they are standardised and made using elaborate milling or injection moulds, with the result that their manufacturing process is neither individualised nor efficient. On the contrary: These methods require extreme fixed costs for tools, impose great limitations on design and do not offer a customised fit.

Vienna-based high-tech company Lithoz is taking a completely new approach. At the International Dental Show 2025, they presented LithaBite, a revolutionary material on aluminium oxide basis for a tool-free production of translucent brackets using 3D-printing. ”LithaBite was specially developed for a seamless integration with natural teeth. It combines an impressive slot geometry precision of less than 7 μm and minimal material consumption of less than 0.1 g per bracket, while offering robust scalability for industrial serial production. This is a world first, and so far, we are the only ones who have managed to manufacture it“, stresses Lithoz CEO Johannes Homa.

EFFICIENCY WITH FULL DESIGN FREEDOM
The proven LCM technology used to create the material layer by layer guarantees maximum geometrical and design freedom. Combined with the company‘s own unique digital surface enhancement (DSE) software, it ensures particularly smooth surfaces. The result: brackets that can be perfectly adjusted to one‘s individual teeth and are aesthetically appealing, comfortable to wear, long-lasting, and biocompatible.

SERIAL PRECISION
The medical miniatures are printed on a CeraFab System S65 Medical, which is largely manufactured by WILD. ”We are very proud to have been chosen by Lithoz as a technology partner from the very start, and that we were also substantially involved in the development of this device“, says WILD CTO Wolfgang Warum. The CeraFab  System S65 Medical is not only suitable for the production of brackets, it can also print biocompatible  components of almost unlimited geometrical shapes – such as jawbone implants or perfectly customised dental crowns.

”The major advantage of this modular device is a combination of reliable compliance with medical specifications, high speed and industrial scalability. At 150 layers per minute, it allows for a cost-efficient serial production of high-performance ceramics“, adds Lithoz CTO Johannes  Benedikt.