3D Systems has announced their acquisition of Vertex Global-Holding B.V., parent company of dental prosthetics manufacturer Vertex-Dental and pioneering dental 3D printing materials developer NextDent, which last year introduced the first-ever CE Class IIa-certified, biocompatible materials for the 3D printing of long-term dental applications. 3D Systems will continue to sell NextDent and Vertex-Dental's full materials portfolio to all of their current customers, but the real excitement of the acquisition comes with 3D Systems' intention to leverage their Figure 4 large-scale stereolithography process along with NextDent's materials to create new 3D printed dental applications. Read more at 3DPrint.com: https://3dprint.com/163498/3d-system...ntal-nextdent/