Products

Michael Delano, Product Specialist with Carestream Dental talks about the launch of CS SoftDent Software version 15 with Stan Goff, Executive Editor, Dental Products Report, live from the convention floor at the California Dental Association trade show.

In this live CDA 2012 video interview DPR Director of Content Thais Carter talks with Dr. Mik Falkel, Onpharma's Founder and Chief Medical Officer, about the the introduction of precision buffering of local anesthetic to dentistry. "We haven't had that before and it allows for less injection pain for dental patients," said Falkel.

Dental Products Report Director of Content Thais Carter talks with Paquita Poindexter, Marketing Manager for 3M ESPE, about the new 3M ESPE Retraction Capsule. "The retraction capsule is an innovative product that will now allow dentists to use a retraction paste to do general retraction," said Poindexter. "The retraction capsule features an ultra-fine tip that fits right into the sulcus for paste application."

Hans Van Horssen of Garrison Dental Solutions introduces the company's new Composi-Tight 3D Clear sectional matrix system during this interview with Dental Products Report Executive Editor Stan Goff. This new system allows dentists to cure through the matrix band, ring and wedge itself.

Dental Lab Products Managing Editor Noah Levine talks with Carl Horrocks from 3Shape about the new TRIOS intraoral impression system at CDA 2012. "The Trios is a digital impression taking intraoral scanner that is an open system," said Horrocks. "The machine is on a cart with wheels so it's very easy to move around. It's also touchscreen and you can send to any laboratory with the open lab feature."

Acme Dental introduces its new PF-4 Evolution Vacuum at CDA 2012 during a live video interview with DPR Executive Editor Stan Goff. Acme Dental's new technology in dental suction systems offers dentists a source of dental suction and vacuum in their dental office's utility room.

In this live interview from CDA 2012, Dental Lab Products Managing Editor Noah Levine talks about Sirona's inLab 4.0 software with Jeff Youngerman, Territory Manager for Sirona Dental Systems. "This is the first time that Sirona has produced a software that is really 100 percent lab software," said Jeff Youngerman. "We've taken it to the next level."

Dr. Eugene Casagrande, DDS, Milestone Scientific Director of International and Professional Relations, discusses the innovative STA SIngle Tooth Anesthesia System Unit. "The STA device is a computer-controlled delivery system that takes the place of a syringe, which we have been using for 160 years," said Casagrande. "It can do all the same injections a syringe does, using the same drugs that that are used with a syringe."

Oliver Gelles, Sr. VP of Marketing for DenMat, talks about the launch of the FLASHlite Magna 4.0 LED curing light. "The FLASHlite Magna 4.0 curing light offers the best value in curing today," said Gelles. "At only $750, it's one of the most powerful and focused lights on the market." Recently, DenMat has incorporated the Legacy brands from Discus.

This live video interview from CDA 2012 features Jim Crowley, Sinsational Smile Founder, who describes the Sinsational Smile whitening system and how it works. The system combines LED technology with an exclusively formulated whitening (FDA approved) gel. This special gel contains more than just ingredients for whitening. It contains a proprietary catalyst which when combined with LED light, activates the whitening gel to work at a faster rate, resulting in a brighter smile and whiter teeth in less time.

Jessica Zaneis, Sales Consultant/Trainer, with Premier Dental Products Co., talks with Thais Carter, Director of Content for Dental Products Report, live from the convention floor at the California Dental Association trade show.

In this live video interview from CDA 2012, Executive Editor Stan Goff talks with Stacey Williams, Director of Marketing about the XENOLITE lead-free x-ray apron.

In this live video interview from CDA 2012, Executive Editor Stan Goff talks with Dr. Gary Bailey about the TAP oral appliance used to treat sleep apnea from Airway Management.

In this live video interview from CDA 2012, Executive Editor Stan Goff talks with Karen Phillips from Ultradent about the company's new VALO Cordless curing light and also the new composite veneer system, Edelweiss.

J. Daniel Clementino, Manufacturer’s Representative with Kuraray America, Inc., provides the highlights to three new dental products with Stan Goff, Executive Editor at Dental Products Report, live from the convention floor at the California Dental Association’s trade show.

In this live CDA video interview, Executive Editor Stan Goff talks with American Academy of Periodontology Past President Dr. Donald S. Clem, DDS, about the recent news linking periodontal diseases and cardiovascular diseases.

Millennium Dental Technologies’ founders Robert Gregg, DDS, President and Chairman, and Delwin McCarthy, DDS, CTO/Co-Founder, speak with Thais Carter, Advanstar Dental Media’s Director of Content, live on the convention floor of the California Dental Association’s trade show.

Listen to iOS Technologies President Duane Durbin's interview with Dental Lab Products Managing Editor Noah Levine, straight from the tradeshow floor at this year's California Dental Association Anaheim meeting. Durbin highlights two new products, the FastScan Intraoral Digital Scanner and the Lab Scanner.

In this live CDA video interview, Dental Lab Products Managing Editor Noah Levine talks with Allie Smith from Whip Mix Corp. about the new Denar 300 Series articulators.

Patrick McCormick, CFO of Millennium Dental Technologies, talks with Thais Carter, Director of Content at Dental Products Report, live from the convention floor at the California Dental Association trade show.

Mike Cindrich, North American Sales Manager with Acteon North America, provides a demonstration of the AIR-N-GO polisher to Stan Gogg, Executive Editor, Dental Products Report, live from the convention floor of the California Dental Association trade show.

This CDA SoundCloud audio interview with AJ Posca from Posca Brothers Dental Lab highlights the company's new ThermoDent material for denture bases. Posca Brothers Dental Lab is family owned and operated, and has been providing dental professionals with excellent service and top quality products for over 40 years. Posca Brothers Dental Lab is located at Booth #2540.

Kamarin Shakibkhou, of DINO, talks about the Kid’s Dental Chair with Stan Goff, Executive Editor at Dental Products Report, live from the convention floor at the California Dental Association trade show. “It’s just for kids,” said Shakibkhou. There’s a fox model that has monitor, a light and a moving head that looks like a fox.

DPR Director of Content Thais Carter kicks off the California Dental Association's Scientific Session in Anaheim, CA with an interview featuring GrindCare's Product and Marketing Director Ernst-Ulrik Haxthausen. GrindCare has developed a new, breakthrough device that measures and quantifies bruxism in dental patients. The bruxism management device can also be used to help treat bruxism. Bruxism, or teeth grinding, is a common problem many of your patients are possibly suffering from.

In this CDA live video interview from the show floor, DPR Executive Editor Stan Goff talks with Patterson Dental President Paul Guggenheim about Patterson's role in the future of oral healthcare. "Patterson is excited about the future of oral healthcare and our position in that important future," said Guggenheim. "We're very focused on enhancing the patient experience."

This SoundCloud audio clip from the California Dental Association's Scientific Session features an interview with HealthSouk. Healthsouk.com is an online dental plan that allows dentists to set their fees on-demand and offer discounts with no traditional patient claims. Named for after the word for an open-air marketplace, the service aims to provide that for the dental space. The concept is based on letting dentists stimulate demand for their services by offering competitive appointment times and prices.

If you’ve read my dental columns over the years, you know I’m incredibly finicky about computer backups. A digital office is absolutely dependent on a consistent and repeatable backup schedule. I cannot stress that fact enough. The saying among geeks like myself is, “The failure rate of hard drives is always 100%.”

Whether you are attending this week’s California Dental Association’s (CDA) Anaheim tradeshow or not, this is the place you want to be to find out everything that will be going on at the show throughout the event, courtesy of the team from Dental Products Report and Dental Lab Products.

As the dental industry converges in Anaheim, CA this week for the California Dental Association meeting, many dentists will be seeking ways to reduce their patient’s exposure to radiation from dental x-rays.

The SuniRay Digital Radiography System, designed and manufactured here in the United States, was shown in a recent evaluation to require the lowest radiation to capture a diagnostic-quality dental x-ray.