Dental Lab Products

01. You opened your dental technology lab when you were 21. What do you find fascinating in your profession? In my opinion, dental technology is a wonderful profession. I love my job because it is a combination of artisanship and genuine traditions that requires a large margin of artistic creativity. Those who are serious about this profession are faced every day with ambitious challenges and have many occasions for professional growth.

February 2010 | Dental Products Report products in practice: marketing Promote your material choice Teaching patients the value of Lava Zirconia. by Dr. Lou Graham  

Pforzheim, Germany and Danbury, Conn.-WIELAND + Technik, Germany, the recently announced the appointment of Stanley N. Maragos as General Manager of Wieland Dental System Inc.

3Shape A/S, a global leader in 3D scanners and CAD/CAM software solutions, announces an exciting new collaboration with 3M ESPE that will provide laboratories with enhanced flexibility in their equipment, material and workflow options.

January 2011 | Dental Lab Products The CAD/CAM Chorus A key to our facility Melker Nilsson – President and General Manager, Nobel Biocare North America by Noah Levine, Senior Editor

February 24, 2010 | dlpmagazine.com NEWS 3D Systems teams up with 3Shape Dental Leaders Provide Fully Integrated Digital Dental Solution

The IdentAlloy/IdentCeram Council has announced that Zirkonzahn USA Inc., of Norcross, Ga., will begin providing IdentCeram certificates to all dental labs purchasing its zirconia milling block products. “Zirkonzahn USA Inc., is a welcome addition to the ranks of IdentCeram licensees. We now have 14 companies participating in the IdentCeram program along with 24 companies in the IdentAlloy program,” commented Charles Yenkner, Executive Director of the IdentAlloy/IdentCeram Council.

The E4D dentist CAD/CAM system scans, designs and mills restorations right at the dental office. Intuitive and easy-to-use, the system’s ergonomic design and efficiency suits the modern dental practice. GET IT DONE NOW: The system can produce same-day inlays, onlays, full crowns and veneers, which results in increased productivity as well as convenience for patients.

What a difference a day can make in your dental career. Here I was, like many of you-operating a very successful practice in a mid-size community-thinking I was keeping up with all of the advantages that modern dentistry could offer. I’d keep track of all that was new by reviewing publications like Dental Products Report and others on a monthly basis. I’d attend the regional tradeshows and attend CE courses.

There are several different color choices for creating a treatment plan wax-up. Most lab technicians use white solid, clear or gray wax, finding this to be acceptable. It’s a standard operating procedure because the results are predictable, the material easy to work with.

Information provided by 3Shape. Improving on existing functions and adding expanded capabilities, 3Shape’s Dental System™ 2012 software is designed to provide CAD/CAM solutions for new indications, help dental labs increase productivity and help dental labs help their dentists.

The words “Quality Management System” get thrown around a lot, but at Vident, there is an actual process in place to bring meaning to the phrase. What can you tell us about that process? At Vident, quality management is a continuous process of improvement that never ends. There is always room for increasing the customer experience and reducing nonconformance in an efficient way. VITA has had amazing quality processes in place since 1924, and we definitely benefit from being a VITA company.

April 2010 | Dental Products Report web exclusive

Our patient, a female in her mid-30s, is the sister of a dental hygienist. Because of this close relationship, there were two people carefully inspecting her dental work, one with plenty of knowledge about the field.

Unless you can clone yourself, chances are you won’t be able to take in all of the lectures, workshops, hands-on demonstrations and forums you want to attend during the jam-packed days surrounding the Chicago Midwinter Meeting, Feb. 23-27. With some careful planning, however, you could hear the most important ideas and advice collectively offered by respected key opinion leaders through panel discussions that are designed to offer a number of viewpoints on a common topic and often are accompanied by interactive question-and-answer periods.

January 2010 | dlpmagazine.com Forward Trends Dentistry without borders How emerging technologies and new business models can connect you to a global market. by Richard Palmer Photo: Comstock/Getty Images It is a small world after all.

3D Systems recently introduced its new ProJet™ 6000 “crossover” 3D printer that combines SLA® part performance with 3D printer utility. The ProJet™ 6000 delivers production quantities of exceptionally detailed and accurate dental working models printed with VisiJet® e-Stone™, a new print material developed specifically to produce dental models. The material is available in a high contrast peach color to illustrate stunning dental anatomy.

CAD/CAM has been a topic of discussion in the dental lab business for a number of years now, and there are numerous opinions about it-examples of many appear in this issue of DLP. Now that we have you thinking about CAD/CAM, I figure this is a good opportunity to get my 2 cents worth out there too.

January 2011 | Dental Lab Products The CAD/CAM Chorus View from an early adopter Scott Udell – Manager, Udell Dental Laboratory by Noah Levine, Senior Editor

The rising demand for elective and implant-based dental treatments has led to a direct increase in the use of temporary restorations.1 Properly fitted and reliable, patients benefit from the utility and esthetics that provisional materials offer.1 Further, dentists rely on provisionals to prevent deterioration of hard and soft tissues of the oral cavity while patients await the definitive restoration.1

01. As the pioneer of chairside CAD/CAM, how does Sirona view the role of the lab technician now and in the future? We see it is a more and more integrated role in which the technology will allow the technician and the dentist to work more closely together and in a more efficient way and in ways that enhance the type of dentistry that they’re doing.

February 4, 2010 | dentalproductsreport.com News Sign up  now for Dr. Ed McLaren's 2-day hands-on workshop On Friday and Saturday, April 16-17, Dr. Ed McLaren will hold a 2-day workshop at LSK 121 Midwest Training Center in Naperville, IL entitled, "Anterior and Posterior Etchable Ceramic Restorations…from Beginning to End."

September 9, 2010-One Source Dental Inc. will hold an open house Sept. 16 from noon to 4 p.m. for lab owners and technicians to showcase its outsource design and milling services and equipment.

The fabrication of base alloy frameworks are state of the art, but often they receive a “bad reputation” with claims of much of the population suffering from toxic or allergic reactions due to dental metallic materials. It’s not to say that such reactions never occur, but when one compares the number of reported cases to the total number of units manufactured for patients, the ratio is very minimal. The risk of an allergy to food, such as strawberries or nuts, is much greater than the risk of having a reaction against a dental alloy compound. 

We in the dental community have all been concerned for some time about the high price of gold in the London market. We are directly affected by these prices because of the uncertain economy and the metal supplies necessary to fabricate our crown and bridge work.

You know how important it is for lab technicians to be involved from the beginning. The more the lab technician knows and the more input he or she can provide the clinician early on, the better the outcome for the patient. After all, you are the one creating the restorations, the restorations patients are depending on to transform their smile.

September 2, 2010-SensAble Technologies Inc., provider of 3D modeling solutions, haptic? devices and dental restoration design and fabrication solutions, has added two seasoned executives to its management team to significantly accelerate the company's presence in the dental lab market and to drive the growth of its core businesses.

There are a lot of factors that go into matching color for the posterior teeth. Harmony is sometimes difficult to achieve because patients often have amalgam fillings in these teeth, which will generate a blue tint to the enamel. We need to first understand natural teeth color and then see a proper preparation reduction margin design to create a matching restoration for the molars. We also have to look at the occlusal surface of the adjacent teeth. This article will detail a case for one of my own clients, a periodontist, who trusted me with his work.

The potential for new design and production technologies to reshape the dental laboratory industry is certainly real. When combined with developments in materials, new technologies can be leveraged to increase capacity, achieve efficiencies and even increase the accuracy of the restorations fabricated by American dental laboratories.

Load the platform with 30 dies, initiate the job and within 15 minutes, the automatic scan and design application produces final coping designs. Its 140 mm x 140 mm x 140 mm scan volume provides access for large fully articulated models.