Disposable Crown Vats and Crown Plates reduce resin handling, vat cleaning, build plate scraping, and workflow reset between prints.
OCTOpod™ Starter Kit
OCTOpod™ Starter Kit
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Setup, print, dispose, post-process, and seat without sending the case to a lab.
Small-format Crown Vats help reduce resin waste and keep material cost low for single-unit restorations.
Print different shades or different cases at the same time without mixing materials in a common resin tray.
One printer. Swappable workflows.
Start with Crown. Add Arch when you’re ready. Swap OCTOpod modules on the same compatible printer — no second printer or full printer reconfiguration required.
Timing and per-crown cost depend on printer, resin, crown geometry, layer settings, post-processing protocol, and material pricing.
OCTOpod Crown Starter Kit
Print same-visit permanent restorations using the dental resin of your choice - without lab delays, closed-system costs, or resin workflow mess.
Includes 1 Crown Refill ($198 retail value). Can pay for itself in approximately 10 chairside restorative prints*
*Depending on your lab fees, material costs, and workflow.
Choose your printer
Typical print times shown for validated workflows; actual time varies by resin, geometry, layer height, and settings.
Shop Pay Installments - $249.50 x 4 biweekly. No interest, no fees.
Fewer steps between design, print, and seat.
Traditional resin printing was built for benchtops, not operatories. OCTOpod Crown collapses the parts of the workflow that slow down chairside restorative production.
Conventional lab-style friction
More cleanup, more material handling, and more steps between one case and the next.
- Vat management between materials
- Build-plate scraping and recovery
- Resin filtering between cases
- Cross-material cleanup and odor
- Lab delays for permanent restorations
Chairside-ready workflow
A cleaner sequence built for same-visit restorative production instead of bench-heavy resin management.
- Load disposable cartridge
- Print same-visit permanent restoration
- Remove disposable, move on to the next patient
- No vat management, scraping, or filtering
- No lab turnaround for the restorative case
Choose the right OCTOpod system.
Crown and Arch run on the same patent-pending OCTOpod platform. Start with the workflow you need today, then expand later by swapping OCTOpod modules on the same compatible printer.
OCTOpod Crown
Same-visit permanent restorations.
- Permanent crowns, inlays, onlays
- Small bridges and chairside restorative cases
- Open-resin restorative workflow
$998 Crown Starter Kit →
OCTOpod Arch
Everyday dental printing.
- Models, guards, splints, trays
- Guides, retainers, denture workflows
- Broader open-resin versatility
Add everyday dental printing workflows later — models, guards, splints, trays, guides, retainers, and denture workflows — without buying a second printer. Explore OCTOpod Arch →
The kit plus what you likely already own.
OCTOpod is the chairside fabrication system. You provide the printer and resin; we provide the patent-pending modular cartridge workflow that turns a compatible desktop MSLA printer into a cleaner, lower-friction chairside crown workflow.
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Patent-pending modular cartridge workflow for chairside crown production.
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- 12 disposable Crown Vat cartridges
- 12 Crown Plates (one per print cycle)
- 12 x 3 mL resin syringes
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Full Resources hub access - Print-to-Seat Protocol, IFU, QSG, videos, troubleshooting, CDT codes.
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From the founder + engineering team.
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Elegoo Mars 4 Ultra (~$199, recommended, 10-min prints) or Phrozen Sonic Mini 8KS (~$299, 25-min prints).
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Open-resin workflow compatible with most 405 nm dental printing resins.Recommended starting point
OCTOdent recommends BEGO VarseoSmile TriniQ for Crown workflows - verified to print crowns as fast as 7 minutes† on the OCTOpod system, with 10-year use-case simulation testing published by BEGO.
Clinician responsibility: clinicians are responsible for selecting appropriate dental resins, following manufacturer instructions, and using validated print, wash, and cure settings. †Print times vary by resin, printer, layer height, restoration geometry, and validated settings.
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The chairside workflow starts with a digital scan. Free CAD software options are documented in the Resources hub.
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You almost certainly already own one (see the Bonding Protocol for the curing schedule).
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Otoflash, or the Anycubic Wash & Cure Plus 3.0Validated by Saremco for post-curing their crowntec dental restorative resin. Click to view the Anycubic product page. - useful for bridges or top-level final cure; not needed for single-unit chairside crowns.
The full OCTOpod Resources hub
Ready to bring crowns chairside?
Start with the OCTOpod Crown Starter Kit — built to simplify setup, printing, disposal, post-processing, and seating with less mess and fewer workflow bottlenecks.
Sonic Mini 8KS - please confirm
The Sonic Mini 8KS is supported, but the Mars 4 Ultra is our recommended default for most chairside workflows. The Sonic Mini is the right pick if you already own one - otherwise the M4U has better ergonomics in a tight operatory.
