{"id":25890,"date":"2016-05-19T20:31:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T03:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-college-student-3d-printed-his-own-plastic-braces-for-60-and-they-actually-fixed-his-teeth"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:59:10","slug":"this-college-student-3d-printed-his-own-plastic-braces-for-60-and-they-actually-fixed-his-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-college-student-3d-printed-his-own-plastic-braces-for-60-and-they-actually-fixed-his-teeth","title":{"rendered":"This college student 3D printed his own plastic braces for $60 \u2014 and they actually fixed his teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-college-student-3d-printed-his-own-plastic-braces-for-60-and-they-actually-fixed-his-teeth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever dream of becoming a dentist? Or, have family members needing new dentures? Or, know that one person who would look good if they only had some teeth. This 3D Printer is your answer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An undergraduate at New Jersey Institute of Technology made his own plastic braces using a 3D printer, $60 of materials, and a healthy dose of ingenuity \u2014 and they actually worked.<\/p>\n<p>Amos Dudley had braces in middle school, but he didn\u2019t wear a retainer like he was supposed to, so his teeth slowly shifted back.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t want to shell out thousands of dollars for a whole new round of braces, so the digital-design major decided to make his own.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/college-student-3d-prints-plastic-braces-for-60-2016-5?utm_content=buffer67b1a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/college-student-3d-prints-pla...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever dream of becoming a dentist? Or, have family members needing new dentures? Or, know that one person who would look good if they only had some teeth. This 3D Printer is your answer. An undergraduate at New Jersey Institute of Technology made his own plastic braces using a 3D printer, $60 of materials, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,32,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-education","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67466,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25890\/revisions\/67466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}