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Exclusively designed for one-step final polishing of composites, Komet’s new light-yellow polishers feature a special silicone bond that provides outstanding flexibility and conformation to tooth anatomy.

Sunstar Americas will launch their new GUM® EasyThreadTM Floss at the Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting this week.

There are 10 instruments in the Ortho Lingual Collection that are said to feature optimal intraoral access, visibility for the clinician, enhanced comfort for the patient and more time savings per procedure. The collection includes: cutters, pliers and lingual ligature directors designed for patient and clinician ease, comfort and accessibililty. Each cutter and pliers feature a gold-plated handle, longer handles that allow for easier access and orbit-formed box joints that are 14% to 20% thinner than standard orthodontic instruments. Hu-Friedy

From Faith Hill rocking braces to new dental product launches, here's what you missed from the week of Feb. 11.

Packed with all the product information you may have missed during the week, the Weekly new dental products also links you to the complete articles on each listing and gives you a video summary of this week's offerings. SOL™ DenMat

The Limited 6 ClearCorrect™ treatment option is described as the ideal for simple anterior adjustments. It includes up to 6 steps of clear aligners (single or dual arch). It includes treatment setup, Phase Zero and retainers at no extra cost. ClearCorrect, LLC 866-331-3323 www.ClearCorrect.co

An interview with John Morton, Director of Research and Technology Product Innovation.

Kuraray's CLEARFIL™ MAJESTY ES-2 Premium is for all 15 classical shades

Want more accurate impressions? Clinician’s Choice HeatWave thermoplastic moldable impression tray system provides an accurate fit, right out of the box.

Beam Technologies' Beam Brush is a tooth brush with "app-titude"

The EPIC™ diode laser provides three distinctive treatment modes: surgery, whitening and pain therapy. The laser is controlled by a full-color touch-screen interface.

From dental instruments to dental composites, here's what you missed this week.

Matt Davis has had his share of dental x-rays taken over the years, but some of the experiences were so bad that he really wanted to try and avoid future x-rays at all costs. “It (discomfort) used to be to the point where you really didn’t want to take the x-rays,” he said. “I would tell doctors unless it’s absolutely necessary, I don’t want to do it. And unless they really knew what they were doing, it took forever. It was like I just lost 20 minutes shoving x-rays in my mouth.”

The launch event for the DEXIS Imaging Suite 10.0.4 impressed the numerous industry leaders and dental professionals present for several reasons...

The ADA Annual Session has come and gone. Now that the dental community has had some time to recover from the major industry event that gathered more than 33,000 attendees, we'd like to take a step back and focus on the most substantial take-aways.

Dr. Imad About, an expert in pulp biology, explains his findings in the digital web lecture “Pulp-Biodentine interactions consequences and clinical significance.”

Even within the digital world, new technology-like the DEXIS® Platinum sensor-continues to enhance the x-ray process all around the office. I have owned digital x-ray since 1993, and I have not seen advancements like those that have taken place in the last year.

With more than 400 booths to check out at the Moscone Center, Dental Products Report presents Ones to Watch to help you prioritize your tradeshow tour. These companies all have a new product or special promotion worth your attention.

Minimally invasive dentistry has become a hot topic over the last few years. New technology and techniques have focused on earlier diagnosis and detection as well as early intervention of disease.

J. Morita, world leader in imaging technology, today announced a major reduction in X-ray dosage of its cone beam (or 3D) X-ray units. Morita’s 3D product lines now come automatically equipped with a Dose Reduction Feature that lowers dosage from 30% to 40% on all three-dimensional fields of view.

Scripps Center for Dental Care is a unique, multi-specialty group practice where owner and director Dr. John Weston and his team have been beta testing the new 3M True Definition Scanner for the past five months.

Dental schools around the country could soon be training students on 3M ESPE's Lava™ Chairside Oral Scanner C.O.S. systems courtesy of 3M Community Giving, the company's charitable arm. 

Dentists continue to search for new ways to provide their patients with better treatment. Advances in diagnostic technologies can help with this by allowing them to detect and monitor caries at its earliest stages.

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For those of us who have entered lightly into the dental technological digital era, we may only have one or two components in our offices. In our office, aside from practice management software, caries and oral cancer detectors, we have Air Techniques’ indispensable Polaris intraoral camera. Why indispensable?

Acknowledging the dynamic decision-making that comes from bringing great minds and great dentists together, once again this year’s honorees were selected by a distinguished panel of dental professionals. In each issue between now and October we will highlight four of the 16 honorees. You’ll find both general information about what the product brings to the table as well as feedback from one of the panelists on what helps the product stand out in its competitive set.

Patient Perspective is an opportunity for patients to share their thoughts on the latest dental technology and materials.

PatientActivator®, the patient communication and online marketing software from 1-800-DENTIST®, has launched a free mobile app that gives dentists easy access to the powerful practice communication and marketing tool right from their mobile phone.

One clinician’s take on the Lighthouse 360 patient communication system.

The second part of the Tech Census offers insight from DPR Technology Editor Dr. John Flucke on the five technology categories covered. This section focuses on CAD/CAM technology.