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John Flucke, DDS, is in private practice in Lee’s Summit, Mo. He also serves as chief clinical editor and technology editor for 

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Riva Cem Automix features SDI’s revolutionary ionglass technology. This unique blend of different sized reactive glass particles harnesses ion-release to cross-link polycarboxylic acid chains. [4 minutes]

Video Test Drive: Riva Cem Automix from SDI

Stan Goff is a Managing Editor with MJH Life Sciences, which includes Dental Products Report, Dental Practice Management, Dental Lab Products, Modern Hygienist, and Dentist's Money Digest. He has covered the dental industry since 1999 and can be reached at sgoff@mjhlifesciences.com.  

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A look at the evolution of minimally invasive dentistry, and the products, technologies, and techniques behind it.

The Modern State of Minimal Dentistry

With 2025 approaching, the cloud-based dental practice management solutions company celebrates significant achievements and key milestones.

Product Innovation, Partnerships, and Increased Revenue Power Planet DDS to a Strong 2024

Josh DeVries is the CEO and co-founder of Intiveo, patient engagement software designed to empower dental practices to enhance patient experiences. He is also the co-host for The Patient Blueprint Experience podcast. For 15 years, he’s worked with healthcare professionals to improve processes and drive efficiency. Through his experience, Josh recognized there were a lot of patient communication services on the market, however none of them focused on healthcare specialists where patient communication is the most critical to their treatment's success.

CEO and co-founder of Intiveo shares his thoughts on what the dental industry can expect in the new year.

5 Trends Your Dental Practice Needs to Know in 2025

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Join the Sanders sisters and "OSHA Lady" Karen Daw as they dive deep on all things patient safety, honoring Patient Safety Awareness Week in March.



About Karen: Karen Daw is an award-winning national speaker, author, and Authorized OSHA Trainer. She earned her BA from the Ohio State University and her MBA with concentrations in Healthcare Administration and Business Management. Karen was recruited from the Emergency Department to the OSU College of Dentistry as the Safety Director. The federal government, OSAP and dental manufacturers have benefited from Karen’s expertise. She now coaches practices across the country live and via Zoom with a “This is going to be so much fun!” approach to OSHA compliance. Interesting fact - Karen recently earned her certificates in the following: Clinical Hypnotherapy, Time Techniques, EFT, Reiki, FIRES Technique, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and Life and Success Coaching through a trauma-sensitive/informed lens. Something people don’t know about me – I am a sucker for underdogs, the voiceless, and have a (MASSIVE and inordinate) sense for justice and fairness

Join the Sanders sisters and "OSHA Lady" Karen Daw as they dive deep on all things patient safety, honoring Patient Safety Awareness Week in March.


Floss & Flip Flops – Episode 27 – Patient Safety Awareness with "OSHA Lady" Karen Daw

The newest addition to the company’s sterilizer lineup, available exclusively in the US and Canada, is this Class B rapid sterilizer designed for busy practices.

W&H’s Latest Innovation in Sterilization is the Compact Lexa Mini

The 2 companies with a long history of innovation will work together to produce clinically differentiated dental products with global manufacturing capabilities.

HuFriedyGroup Expands Offerings With Acquisition of SS White Dental

These high-velocity, hot air sterilizers from CPAC Equipment, Inc feature technology evolved from NASA’s early research to discover the best efficacious and non-destructive decontamination technology for spacecraft.

CPAC RapidHeat™ RH-Pro11 and RH-Pro9

These wipes provide various disinfection and cleaning options for any dental practice’s infection control and cleaning needs.

Surface Disinfection and Cleaning Wipes Designed for Everyday Dental Practice Needs

Originally posted on Infection Control Today. Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is a significant infection prevention concern, leading to high patient mortality, increased health care costs, and ICU usage. Oral hygiene is an effective preventive measure.

Maximizing Value: The Hidden Benefits of Preventing Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Through Oral Hygiene

CDS 2024 Midwinter Meeting – Interview with Debbie Zafiropoulos, who discusses a trio of new infection control products from Armis Biopharma. [3 minutes]

2024 Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting – Interview with Debbie Zafiropoulos, who discusses Armis Biopharma's "Trifecta of Dental Infection Control."

Hi, good afternoon. This is Debbie Zafiropoulos. I am so excited to be here at Chicago Midwinter meeting. I think I've been coming to this meeting for over 20 years, and the thing that impresses me the most is being involved in new product launches.

So, I'm here with Armis Biopharma, a biopharma company in Fort Collins, Colorado, where I've had the opportunity—it's not even an opportunity—I've had the greatest pleasure to use my background in oral health and wellness to bring products to market and the thing that we're most impressed upon is keeping the chain of infection control solid.

So, Armis Biopharma has a trifecta in infection control. It is ArmiClenz® which is a surface disinfectant. It is a hand sanitizer called ArmiCare®. And it's our oral appliance solution [ArmiGard™] that kills a variety of bacteria that harbor on appliances, sleep apnea devices, CPAP machines, your children's pacifiers, your baby bottles, your mouth guards if you're playing sports. What we want to do with Armis Biopharma is to bring to our community, the most non-toxic approach to infection control.

So, we're happy…This is our travel safe defense kit and just as I said earlier, when you're on an airplane, think about who was touching the seatbelt that was sitting there or the table that was in front of you. You have an opportunity to use a spray and within 3 minutes killing any of the bacteria that would cause a cross contamination. We certainly want you to get to your destination happier, healthier, and with the ability to use something that's non-toxic.

Our proprietary formula is peracetic acid and hydrogen peroxide stabilized, which means that over a period of time as you're using it on your surfaces, for example, you don't have to worry about corrosion or explosion or breaking down or discoloring any of the materials, whether it's on your countertop or on your upholstered chairs.

Imagine using an oral appliance solution like ArmiGard that will kill bacteria within a 10-minute kill time of the rhinovirus or even COVID—things that we’re concerned about. But think about yeast or fungus or those bacteria that cause odor that your patients [then] don't want to use their aligners or their dentures. You have a spray that you can dispense within your practice to eliminate all that, and it makes you as a professional, the expert in overall health and wellness for your patients. Isn't that what they're coming to you for?

So, definitely take a look at armigardusa.com, and look at our parent company, Armis Biopharma.

Make sure you have an opportunity to stop by and get our travel safe defense kits. We are dispensing these out to our practices. So, you have a complete opportunity for non-toxic infection control in your practice. This is Debbie's Zafiropoulos. Thank you for this opportunity. We look forward to helping you service your practice and continue the best care that you can for your patients.

CDS Midwinter Meeting 2024 Interview with Debbie Zafiropoulos of Armis Biopharma, who discusses a trio of new infection control products. [3 minutes].

2024 Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting / Lab Day Chicago

Dyan Jayjack from Henry Schein Handpiece & Small Equipment solutions shares the key features of the new Maxima Turbo class B sterilizer 

GNYDM23 Product Focus: Henry Schein Maxima Turbo Class B Sterilizer with Dyan Jayjack

Hi, I'm Dyan Jayjack and I'm with Henry Schein Handpiece & Small Equipment Solutions here to talk to you about our newest product the Maxima Turbo class B sterilizer. With a market leading sterilization time of only 15 minutes, this product is just great to have as a plus one in your operatory, or to have as a backup in case your main sterilizer unit goes down, or even to have ait dedicated for your hygiene room. In 15 minutes you go from a sterilization of your products so that you can use them immediately. That includes downtime and cooling time. Your product is ready to use at the end of 15 minutes. Thank you.

Dyan Jayjack from Henry Schein Handpiece & Small Equipment solutions shares the key features of the new Maxima Turbo class B sterilizer available from Henry Schein during the 2023 Greater New York Dental Meeting. [1 Minute]

Greater New York Dental Meeting 2023

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Dyan Jayjack from Henry Schein Handpiece & Small Equipment solutions shares the key features of the new Maxima PowerClean 210 ultrasonic cleaner.

GNYDM23 Product Focus: Henry Schein Maxima PowerClean 210 with Dyan Jayjack

Hi, I'm Dyan Jayjack with Henry Schein Handpiece & Small Equipment Solutions here to talk about the Maxima PowerClean 210, our new ultrasonic cleaner with industry leading cleaning time. This product can clean instruments in 5 to 10 minutes. It's very powerful while being quiet, which means you can run it without having the disturbance that you would normally have in your operatory or your reprocessing area. Then in addition to this, because it's so powerful, you can get more loads through the unit in a shorter amount of time. Plus it drains on either side so you really don't have to worry about where to put it in your reprocessing center.

Dyan Jayjack from Henry Schein Handpiece & Small Equipment solutions shares the key features of the new Maxima PowerClean 210 ultrasonic cleaner available from Henry Schein during the 2023 Greater New York Dental Meeting. [1 Minute]

John Flucke, DDS, shares his experience with Steiriliu's BurButler bur blocks with one of the product's inventors, Paul Moore, BDA.

Problem Solvers: BurButler bur blocks from Steiriliu

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 Before BurButler, we were using anodized, aluminum blocks with the little, you know, tip back lids. And those worked okay. Unfortunately, over time, as they get autoclaved, the colors fade, they get scratched, they don't, they don't look real good. And the other thing that's a limitation on them is the lids themselves. And it doesn't matter who makes them—because I've got a lot of these from different companies where I've actually bought a kit that came with the block—all of them in a fairly short amount of time, and I don't know if it's corrosion or what it is, but the lids just don't open right anymore, you really have to fight to get them open, you've got a fight to get them close, some of them as you're fighting to get them open will actually pop, and you end up with two pieces, a lid and a block. The other thing is they don't, they don't shut and stay shut. So heaven forbid, if you do drop one on the floor, the lid pops open burs go everywhere. To contrast that with the BurButler, we've been using them for at least six months now. They look the same as the day I took them out of the box. They work tremendously well. You can take them and turn them upside down, burs stay put. If you drop them, same thing. Nothing comes out, you just pick up the BurButler and go on. There's no corrosion factor. There's no nothing. And quite honestly, when I first used it, I can't believe that somebody hadn't thought of this before. You know, it's not like somebody magically discovered this medical grade, you know, material that you can use for this. It has been around for a while. But the actual process is genius. I mean, it's something that I think everybody should have in their kits. It just makes you more organized and more efficient.

 Excellent. Yeah. i What was your first reaction when you turn it upside down?

 I was thrilled. Honestly, I smiled. Because I thought, you know, I humorously say in dentistry, the only thing that doesn't hit the floor is the floor itself. Everything gets dropped. I don't care if it's curing light, an instrument, an entire kit, a bur block. And normally, you know, when a bur block hits, everything goes off in every direction. And it's not like these are easy things to find. And knowing that I can actually take it, turn it upside down, having that and knowing that those burs aren't going anywhere. And that, you know, there was a shock absorber so that you're not taking a risk on if you happen to have a wooden floor, or I work on heat sealed vinyl, but you can drop things if they come down at you know, on a corner, you can you know, mark the floor, chip the floor. Doesn't happen with the burButler. The BurButler is genius. It is simplicity quite honestly.

Yeah, there's no moving parts on it. Right? Like, yeah.

It doesn't Ah, it looks the same. After I would venture to say hundreds of autoclave cycles at this point, it looks like I just opened the package yesterday.

Yeah, no, we would expect. I mean, we've been using for eight years in the practice, and I'm still using the same ones. There might be a slight fading of color over that length of time, but that's about it. And how do you integrate them into your practice?

So we took them, we we use the different colors for different tray setups, so that if they by chance, get separated, we know that blue goes with operative, you know, that sort of thing. So the color coding really helps as well, helps you stay organized.

What would you say to someone who's in a practice where they still using the old systems?

Yeah. You know, it's one of those things where you don't know what you've got until you have it. Oftentimes with with new processes and new things in your office, you don't realize how inefficient that old way is. Because that's how we've always done it. You just accept the inefficiencies. But when that's taken away from you, and you're confronted with a new way of doing things, that is easy and makes things better and more organized, there's no way you go back to those anodized aluminum blocks ever.


Dental Products Report Chief Clinical Editor John Flucke, DDS, shares his experience with Steiriliu's BurButler bur blocks with one of the product's inventors, Paul Moore, BDA. [5 Minutes]

Developing the Strapless N95 ReadiMask

Robert Elsenpeter interviews PPE innovator John Schwind about the story behind developing a mask offering N95-level protection without straps to loop around the ears or behind the head.

Johnathan Rudin, DDS, MS, MPH explains the current regulatory requirements and best practices for preventing spread of bloodborne pathogens in dental settings.

Building a Safe and Efficient Practice: Protection from Bloodborne Pathogens – Requirements and Best Practices

In this presentation from the Building a Safe and Efficient Practice online event, Johnathan Rudin, DDS, MS, MPH explains the current regulatory requirements and best practices for preventing the spread of bloodborne pathogens in dental settings.

Linda Lee, DrPH, MBA, CIC, explains why air quality is so important in a dental practice and reviews different technologies and approaches to cleaning the air.

Building a Safe and Efficient Practice: Controlling Airborne Pathogens in a Dental Setting

In this presentation from the Building a Safe and Efficient Practice online event, Linda Lee, DrPH, MBA, CIC, explains why air quality is so important in a dental practice and reviews different technologies and approaches to cleaning the air.

John Molinari, PhD, explains why hand hygiene is so critical for infection prevention and reviews the formulations commonly found in hand sanitizer products.

Building a Safe and Efficient Practice: Importance of Hand Hygiene in Infection Prevention

In this presentation from the Building a Safe and Efficient Practice online event, John Molinari, PhD, explains why hand hygiene is so critical for infection prevention and reviews the formulations commonly found in hand sanitizer products.

Gary Morgan, CDT, reviews how to balance infection control protocols in a dental practice in order.

Building a Safe and Efficient Practice: Applying the Concepts of Risk Management to Infection Control

In this presentation from the Building a Safe and Efficient Practice online event, Gary Morgan, CDT, reviews how to balance infection control protocols in a dental practice in order to mitigate the risks faced by clinicians, staff, and patients.

Moderator John Flucke, DDS joins Densen Cao, PhD; Linda Lee, DrPH, MBA, CI; John Molinari, PhD; Gary Morgan, CDT: CQA/ASQ; and Jonathan Rudin, DDS, MS, MPH

Building a Safe and Efficient Dental Practice: Panel Discussion

Moderator John Flucke, DDS is joined by Densen Cao, PhD; Linda Lee, DrPH, MBA, CI; John Molinari, PhD; Gary Morgan, CDT: CQA/ASQ; and Jonathan Rudin, DDS, MS, MPH for a panel discussion about dental infection control.

Densen Cao, PhD, shares the research and innovations he believes are changing dentistry to make providing oral health care safer for clinicians.

Building a Safe and Efficient Practice: Advanced Infection Control Technologies and Products

In this presentation from the Building a Safe and Efficient Practice online event, Densen Cao, PhD, shares the research and innovations he believes are changing dentistry to make providing oral health care safer for clinicians.

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