MANUFACTURING PROCESS
Orthotic Choice utilizes state-of-the-art technology to continue to provide you with the highest quality custom foot orthotics available.

What's different? Instead of pouring plaster into each foam or plaster cast and making the necessary corrections before vacuum-forming our plastic, we now use the latest in patented technology to scan and correct your casts. The milling machine then mills corrected wooden positives. This allows our trained laboratory staff to more accurately create optimally functioning custom foot orthotics. The step-by-step process is shown below.
1LASER SCANNING CASTS
Your positive plaster or foam casts are scanned with electronic imaging equipment integrated for orthotic manufacturing. This provides us with an accurate and reliable image of your foot in 3-dimensions. This data is then download to our CAD (Computer Aided Design) program.
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3-D BIOMECHANICAL CORRECTION
Using CAD software our technicians apply biomechanical corrections and controls to the 3-dimensional image, and download that data to our scanning computer. Our scanning computer uses CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) software to add your data to the milling computer.
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MILLING THE POSITIVE
Our state-of-the-art milling machine mills your corrected three dimensional positive out of wood.
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THERMOPLASTIC VACUUM MOLDING
Technicians then take your positive wood molds and place them in vacuum formers. Heated thermoplastic is then draped over the positive molds and vacuum-formed to fit your foot. This ensures that every pair of orthotics is custom made for you. No two feet are alike!
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THE FINISHING TOUCHES...
The plastic is then trimmed and posted. After any additional modifications are added to your orthotics, they are covered and trimmed. Within fourteen days of this intensive manufacturing process your customized orthotics are ready for use.

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