Joe Hogan, Align Technology's plastics-nerd CEO, says you shouldn't eat with your aligners and that you don't need to wear your retainers every night. Joe Hogan sees a lot of smiles. When people ask him where he works, he responds with "Align Technology," which inevitably prompts the follow up, "What's that?" After months, sometimes years, the discrete rival to braces promises to give people smiles they will want to show off. Hogan gets a look at them all. And he's eager to see more. Align is embarking on its biggest manufacturing overhaul since it was founded by two Stanford Graduate School of Business classmates 29 years ago. The company is preparing to begin directly 3D printing the aligners at the core of its business, ditching what Hogan describes as a longer, more wasteful process that involves making molds. A successful transition could lower costs and make treatment more affordable in the long run, bringing Invisalign to more customers and boosting Align's profits. It also, according to Hogan, would entrench Align as the world's biggest user of 3D printers .

The global medical industry experienced a 13% rise in new job postings related to artificial intelligence in Q3 2022 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData's Jobs Analytics. This compares to a 13% increase in the previous quarter and a 39% increase versus Q3 2021. Notably, Software and Web Developers, Programmers, and Testers jobs accounted for a 16% share of the global medical industry's artificial intelligence-related total new job postings in Q3 2022, down 11% over the prior quarter. Software and Web Developers, Programmers, and Testers, with a share of 16%, emerged as the top artificial intelligence-related job roles within the medical industry in Q3 2022, with new job postings drop by 11% quarter-on-quarter. General and Operations Managers came in second with a share of 5% in Q3 2022, with new job postings rise by 4% over the previous quarter.