The two have teamed up to establish Bolt Labs powered by SprintRay

Jamaica’s eight-time Olympic gold medalist and entrepreneur Usain Bolt and his Bolt Foundation have teamed up with American technology company SprintRay to set up Bolt Labs.

Bolt Labs, which will be powered by SprintRay, is an initiative designed to make digital dental care accessible and affordable to patients across the world, starting with Bolt’s homeland of Jamaica. The fastest man in the world has also become SprintRay’s Global Brand Ambassador.

Their five-year partnership will establish dental clinics, including 3D dental labs and a mobile unit to address the critical dental needs of both adults and children, as well as serving people in more remote areas of Jamaica.

SprintRay Chief Executive Officer Amir Mansouri explains that “this initiative marks a pivotal step, as SprintRay continues to act on our mission to improve dental care quality and delivery times through technological innovation. Using our ecosystem of dental 3D printing products, dental work can now be completed in a fraction of the time and cost, and without multiple offices visits”.

For his part Bolt remarked: “I am proud to represent and partner with SprintRay and fellow ‘Sprinters,’ as we call ourselves. This is a company that is poised to transform the digital dental industry on a global scale.”

Continuing, Bolt explained that “this initiative is intended to accelerate a very critical and unmet need for improvements in dental care access across the world, starting with Jamaica, where there is less than one dentist for every 100,000 residents. I look forward to working with SprintRay to give confidence and the best possible smile to every citizen of this planet”.

Established 2014, SprintRay is a technology company that builds end-to-end 3D printing ecosystems for dental professionals. Because the company control the design, manufacturing and support of its products, SprintRay is uniquely positioned to provide full-stop additive manufacturing solutions that are both cutting-edge and user-friendly.

SPRINTRAY PARTNERSHIP WTH ASPEN DENTAL MANAGEMENT

SprintRay recently announced a partnership with Aspen Dental Management that will see its 3D printing technology installed at more than 900 dental practices. Aspen Dental Management is a 900+-strong national dental network and has sought to align with SprintRay to support the delivery of high-quality dental care for patients across 45 states in the United States.

SprintRay has a portfolio of two 3D printing systems, which both lean on Digital Light Processing technology to produce accurate and high throughput dental parts.

The SprintRay Pro 95 and Pro 55 – the numbers representing the micron XY pixel size the machines are able to achieve – are both capable of producing surgical guides with the former considered the ‘right choice for most dental practices’ and the latter suited to ‘jobs that require razor-thin margins.