North Yorkshire dental firms providing thousands of PPE kits to NHS

With the help of Metrodent from Huddersfield Nexus is using 3D printing to make visors for the hospital frontline staff without the help of government funding.
By Mark Casci
Published 24th Apr 2020, 16:58 GMT
Updated 24th Apr 2020, 17:00 GMT

A North Yorkshire dental laboratory in Ripon has switched focus to producing PPE for local hospitals.

Nexus in Ripon is no longer making teeth but are now producing PPE for local hospitals.

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Metrodent is supplying the resin material for cost price. Software company Envision has also been providing assistance.

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The firm currently has the capacity to produce 150 visors a day. However, having fine tuned the printing process it expects to increase this to 2,000 a day.

As staff are working for free they are reliant on public donations to help pay for the resin material. So far Nexus has raised around £6,000 to go towards the production of these visors.

James Kitchingman, a dental technician with a separate dental firm in Bedale, has been helping the firm deliver the visors to hospitals all over Yorkshire.

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“I collected and delivered 50 visors to my local hospital and the staff were practically in tears,” he told The Yorkshire Post.

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“They only had masks and goggles available to them.”

Nexus dental laboratory are also awaiting the certification from the NHS that the nasopharyngeal swabs it is printing are acceptable to help diagnose patients and staff requiring a test.

So far Nexus has delivered PPE to hospitals in Leeds, Huddersfield, Harrogate and Middlesbrough.

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https://www.gofundme.com/f/skd4b2-3d-printing-ppe?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet

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