Since the immemorial, the replacement of missing teeth has been a medical and cosmetic necessity for humankind. There will be an increase in the overall need for complete dentures, from 53.8 million in 1991 to 61.0 million dentures in 2020. In common practice, there are a lot of materials that can be used to manufacture denture substructures: Zirconium oxide, Titanium, Chrome-cobalt. An alternative to metal supported and or ceramic restorations in removable and fixed dentures is provided by Fiber Reinforced Composites (FRC), which represent a low-cost alternative to metal-alloy, metal–ceramic, all-ceramic restorations, and provide superior resistance to fractures. Thus, the current practice to fabricate FRC reinforcing structure for dentures suffers serious drawbacks due to the specific manufacturing methods: either loss of the mechanical properties and production of a lot of waste materials or when hand-made the result is imprecise and dependent on the operator. The SCAT project aims to overcome today’s fabrication limits by additive manufacturing using FRC materials. Today, all the commercial 3D printers for dental applications do not make use of FRC, all of them are using metallic, ceramic and resin materials. The goal of the SCAT feasibility study proposal is to complete the technical, commercial and financial assessment of a new additive manufacturing technology which has demonstrated to have the potential to disrupt dentistry.
