Restorative Dentistry

Like the rigid metal Quad-Tray before it, Clinician’s Choice’s Anterior Quad-Tray X2 provides highly accurate dual arch impressions and restorations that need little chair-side adjustment.

VITA’s Easyshade Advance 4.0 digital shade matching system provides optimal determination, advanced measurement technology and sturdy LED components.

Composed of pure zirconium on a titanium adaptor that engages the implant, HI-TEC implants are used for creating direct crowns by bonding porcelain or as an abutment for cemented restorations.

Designed for adhesive cementation techniques, Ivoclar Vivident’s next-generation Multilink Automix System offers an enhanced adhesive formula that allows for simpler clean-up of excess material using a quarter light-curing technique.

Billed as a screw-retained solution for up to 12 units, AurumTek Multiple Implant Solution (A.M.I.S.™) bridges offer a custom, precision-milled chrome cobalt, full metal or zirconia understructure. 

Thais Carter, DPR Director of Content, talks with Nikki McKeon, Marketing Manager for 3M ESPE's Lava brand about the launch of the Lava Plus high translucency zirconia.

Dr. James Braun explains how liner/base materials can help provide dentists with extra assurance that restorations will be long-lasting and sensitivity free.

Experience has shown that to achieve successful resin composite posterior restorations, composite layering is essential. However, proven to be time consuming and technique sensitive, the procedure must be performed properly to avoid polymerization shrinkage and marginal leakage. Because dental professionals have continuously sought more advanced materials and more efficient techniques, dental research has led to the introduction of bulk fill resin composite materials.

  An entirely new product line from Carestream Dental, CS Solutions includes CBCT impression scanning, an intraoral scanner, a milling machine, restoration design software, plus a convenient web-based platform that allows dentist and laboratories to share and manage restoration cases.

Ivoclar Vivadent’s recently introduced Tetric EvoCeram® Bulk Fill represents a significant advancement in resin-based filling materials and an entirely new technology for the faster, more efficient placement of direct composite restorations without compromise to any physical properties. 

A Q&A with William Paveletz, DMD Clinical Educator for VOCO AMERICA.

A little forethought can go a long way in delivering the best possible comprehensive restorative service.

SDI Limited has introduced Riva Bond LC, a 9th generation of adhesives that dramatically reduces the polymerization stress caused by composites shrinking.

Align Technology's iTero Intraoral Scanner provides accuracy, efficiency.

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

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.

3M recently announced that Wieland Dental + Technik GmbH & Co. entered a licensing agreement with 3M for use of 3M's processed zirconia coloring technology.  

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D4D Technologies, manufacturer of the E4D Dentist™ system, recently announced the introduction of E4D Compare™, an innovative adaptive learning technology tool for dental teaching institutions.

A Q&A with Greg Rome, Director of Sales and Marketing for Kerr Dental Laboratory Products.

1. Consider offering an affordable, non-invasive veneer as an option to conventional porcelain veneers. There are several non-invasive techniques you might choose to use. Not everyone needs or can afford porcelain veneers. Sure they are a great service for our patients, but composites have evolved.

Sisters Anita Cranford and Elise Holasek, owners of Norman, OK-based Identical Dental Laboratory, share common DNA, a commitment to quality, a thriving dental lab business and even more; the two are identical twins.

As skilled with a paint brush as with a drill, retired dentist Richard Schilling has found inspiration for his watercolor paintings from a variety of places he has visited while on dental missions including the prairies of Nebraska, the plains of the Serengeti, the Royal Palace of Monaco, and the snow swept landscape of Siberia.

Ambient light in the dental office or operatory is one of the most common causes of direct restorative failure due to premature polymerization of composite resin materials.1,2 Premature polymerization has been directly related to an increased risk of staining, bacterial accumulation, marginal leakage and secondary caries.3 It also will prevent the clinician from bringing restorations to full contour, increasing the time in finishing and

A team at the Vienna University of Technology recently set a speed record for 3D printing on a nano-scale with a new "two-photon lithography" technology that uses a focused laser to print solid objects from a liquid resin.

There's certainly no shortage of opportunities to take in new techniques, check out new products and meet new people from the industry during the second day of the Chicago midwinter meetings. With the Cal-Lab meeting continuing for a morning session, Jensen Education Day and Spectrum dialogue Techno-Clinical Day as well as Lab Day getting started.

After four and a half days of networking and learning, CareerFusion came to an end Wednesday afternoon.

Henry Schein Dental unveiled its "Total Health Beyond the Mouth"  program at the Nov. 27-30, Greater New York Dental Meeting.

With guidance from The Pankey Institute and the National Association of Dental Laboratories, the Virginia Dental Association House of Delegates recently passed new requirements for dental labs in the state. The Virginia Dental Lab Safety Act aims to protect patient safety and improve communications between dentists and dental laboratories.