Dental appliances including multiple components and a system and method
for constructing the same are disclosed herein. The dental components are
designed to fit together to form the dental appliance. The components of
the dental appliance are electronically modeled, printed, and pressed
sequentially, separately, or as a unitary piece. Forming the dental
appliance from multiple components enables each component of the dental
appliance to be formed from a different material, each material having
different features associated with it. In various embodiments, different
materials have different colors, textures, opacities, and transformation
factors associated with them. Furthermore, each component can be formed
from multiple components. In some other embodiments, a support structure
is designed and constructed in order to minimize deformation of a dental
component during fabrication of the component.