Products

For Dr. Bob Marcus of Poway, Calif., Adhese Universal® from Ivoclar Vivadent and the Vivapen® delivery system have come together to make the way that he practices dentistry much simpler and more efficient.

DPR talks to MacPractice CEO Mark Hollis about the workflow benefits of using Apple products, and how his company can help dentists take it even further.

In today's society we are finding more and more patients presenting with edentulous ridges, or teeth that are hopeless. As the number of Baby Boomers increase, so does the number of patients requiring dentures or even better overdentures.

3D Systems has announced its ProJet® 3510 MP 3D printer and VisiJet® Pearlstone dental material have been verified by 3Shape for prosthodontic dental model production.

Adhese® Universal is a single-component, light cured universal adhesive for direct and indirect bonding procedures. 

Dr. Theodore Croll of Doylestown, Pa., doesn’t hide his enthusiasm about stainless steel crowns and the impact they have made on his patients and his practice.

Tom's of Maine, a natural oral care brand, now offers parents a new natural Toddler Training Toothpaste with no artificial flavors, sweeteners, preservatives or dyes to help start good brushing habits.

Aurident, Inc. now offers the Optimet DS 6000 3D scanner, which reportedly provides several features and benefits for the dental laboratory.

The ESX Rotary File from Brasseler is designed with several features that offer powerful yet minimally invasive performance, reportedly maximizing the long-term success of the treated tooth.

Designed to be simple and versatile, the LED IS100 digital radiography intraoral sensor offers 20 line pairs per millimeter spatial resolution and 16.384 shades of gray (14 bits) for crisp, clear, bright and contrasted images.

Stratasys Ltd. has introduced two new wax 3D printers, which they say are the highest precision wax printers available to the dental industry.

LED Imaging, a new division of LED Dental, this week introduced its new digital radiography intraoral sensor, the LED IS100, at the California Dental Association meeting.

Heraeus Kulzer has announced the U.S. launch of PALA cre-active, a light-curing color fluid system used for the customized characterization of dentures. 

What started as a purchase for Dr. Mike DiTolla’s co-worker has turned into a new love for the KaVo MASTERtorque™ M8900 L High-Speed Air Handpiece.

Vision USA, a Dentrex company, has introduced new options to assist with labs’ safety and magnification needs.

Whip Mix has a new addition to their digital solutions, the ProJet 1200 printer from 3D Systems.

Every restorative dentist will be, at some point, faced with a patient that presents with root caries apical to an existing crown margin. The choice is whether to remove the existing crown and additional decay and replace the crown, or to attempt to directly restore the affected area without crown replacement.

Dentrex Digital, a new division of Vision USA, now offers a full range of CAD/CAM materials for digital dental milling centers.

Renfert USA has announced a new laser pinhole drill, the Top spin.

The iOptima from Bien-Air is designed to allow practitioners to transform a pneumatic handpiece system to a modern electric unit that is equipped with a brushless and sensorless micromotor, as well as an iPod touch interface from Apple®.

Solidscape®, Inc., a Stratasys company, introduced the Solidscape® MAX², a high-precision 3D printer for manufacturing wax patterns, the newest member of the company’s 3Z® Series.

A take-home whitening solution, LumiSmile White from DenMat is available in 32%, 22% and 16% carbamide peroxide concentrations, and is said to offer reduced sensitivity, real peppermint oil flavoring, and 18 months of refrigeration-free shelf life.

Instrumentarium Dental’s feature-reach OP300 Maxio Pan/Ceph/3D introduces new and larger fields-of-view for dental and maxillofacial imaging, as well as Low Dose Technology (LDT), which is designed to provide quality-optimized cone beam 3D scan at radiation dosages up to 5 times less than traditional 2D panoramic images.

Crowns and bridges made of high-strength pressed ceramics are among the most reliable, predictable options for restoration of function and esthetics.

The Straumann® CARES® Variobase™ Abutment has been on the market for roughly a year, but Jorge Pages, marketing manager of Straumann USA digital solutions, says there are big changes coming. Variobase™ will soon be available as a stand-alone product, an abutment the laboratory can purchase.

3Shape, a global leader in 3D scanners and CAD/CAM software solutions and Straumann, a global leader in implant, restorative and regenerative dentistry, announced this week the official release of new software capabilities that enable users of 3Shape’s Dental System™ to design and order customized zirconia or titanium abutments with Straumann original implant connections.??

This ultra esthetic PMMA temporary material combines five-plus layers of colors into one disc, reportedly giving the restoration the most natural look possible.

Ivoclar Vivadent recently released the new Smile to the Max™ application for smartphones and tablets.

Today’s implant prosthetics call for high performance materials. Diamond D® is an excellent, high impact acrylic.

DATRON Dynamics, representative of DATRON AG in Germany, has introduced two new products in the same family as their D5 Dental Mill.