09-21-2019, 07:05 PM
(09-21-2019, 12:39 PM)EdK Wrote: I found this comment dealing with UV resin printers in the comments of this printer review.
"Very important, you must keep the resin off your skin, even in trace amounts. If you do get resin on your skin, immediately wash it off thoroughly using soap and water (NOT using isopropyl alcohol, as I had incorrectly originally written), and try to avoid UV light and sunlight for a few hours. From what I've read, there's this strange thing that happens where when UV resin cures inside your skin, it raises the flags of your immune system, and over time, your immune system becomes sensitized to UV resins. When this happens, you can end up with severe, nasty reactions to any contact with resins. Delay that sensitization as much as possible by always wearing gloves and never handling uncured parts with bare fingers. (Severe cringe when you talked about how they still felt "tacky". :-P)"
Kind of scary.
I think I'll avoid those and stick with the SLA style printers.
Ed
If that is the case it makes me wonder why my dentist uses UV curing adhesives for installing crowns and UV curing resins for filling cavities.
They are systematically replacing all my old "metal" (amalgam) fillings with resin fillings now. The lesser of two evils?
Willie