Development of special CNC system for dental implant based on spiral trajectory smooth compression

The demand for dental implants has grown rapidly in recent years, but they are expensive. One of the prime reasons is its manufacturing costs. In order to realize low cost and high efficiency of dental implant processing, this paper presents a seven-axis machine tool and develops a special numerical control system of the machine tool. Firstly, the structure of machine designed by us is introduced. Then, the hardware structure and software function of the control system were designed according to the processing technology of dental implant, including turning-milling conversion and back processing. In addition, a spiral path smooth compression algorithm was proposed to improve the machining efficiency and quality. Finally, the performance of the machining center is tested to verify that it has a high degree of automation, processing efficiency and machining quality, which meets the performance requirements.