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The pain of sensitive teeth can prevent your patients from either keeping their routine appointments or accepting treatment. How to you get the edge for your patients? By identifying what today’s options are so you can give them their best results.

Learn why Komet’s S6856XL.FG.021 and 8856XL.FG.021 might be perfect for your practice.

Roy Dental Lab is a full service lab located in New Albany, Ind., just across the river from Louisville, Ky. The lab is family owned, and was started in 1972. The lab has 11 full-time dental technicians, and 13 total full-time employees.

After speaking with Dr. Frank Milnar of St. Paul, Minn., briefly about  COMPONEER® from Coltene Whaledent for the August issue of Dental Products Report, Group Editorial Director Kevin Henry traveled to Minnesota to go more in depth with Dr. Milnar on why he chooses to integrate COMPONEER into his practice.

The first thing you hear of from some colleagues is usually: Why should I press when I’m much faster with the layering technique?

  When I first introduce the topic of tracking software to dental practices, there are two responses I frequently encounter. Dental team members often think, “Oh no, it’s Big Brother,” while dentists wonder what a product like OnTrack can do that their existing practice management software cannot.   

Now distributed by BIOMET 3i, RegenePro Collagen Sponges and Plugs feature a proprietary manufacturing technology that allows the products to take the shape of the wound, absorbing liquids and accelerating healing.

Core3dcentres has announced the next series of core3daCADemy CE events, including a new implant-based course in mid-September. The courses include both online webinars and in-person events at locations around North America.

Bien-Air's iOptima, the first electric handpiece system of its kind, is designed to boost the performance  of dental procedures.  With the iOptima, practitioners can transform their existing dental unit into a modern system equipped with a brushless and sensorless micromotor and an iPod® interface. 

Our case study patient involves a 50-year-old woman whose case required screw-retained implants to create the most functional and esthetically pleasing implant bridge. Often clinicians will ask about procedure for a case of this nature because they would like to better understand protocol.

As the dental industry moves into a new era of more sophisticated dental software, including a new generation of dental electronic health records (EHRs), dentists, practice managers, and administrators are becoming increasingly confused in terms of the evaluation and selection of these new technologies.   

A team of researchers at Harvard has discovered that it may be possible to regrow dentin in teeth-through the power of lasers.

Whip Mix has announced it will be holding the third annual Survive or Thrive Digital Forum on October 2 and 3 in Louisville, Ken.

Perio-Therapeutics & Beyond is a unique dental hygiene consulting firm created in 2003 by Colleen Rutledge, RDH. The firm provides over-the-shoulder, in-office training for various non-surgical periodontal therapies.

A recent change to the Master Label of PDI’s Super Sani-Cloth Germicidal Disposable Wipes includes EPA acceptance on kill claims for three additional microorganisms.

In a joint project between Sikka Software Corporation and Dental Products Report, the following are endodontic treatments that dentists throughout the United States are providing and what they are charging. Using Sikka Software’s vast network of data resources, you will find a comparison of procedures for the past three years and a fee comparison for the time frames.  

Through what he calls “trial and error,” Dr. David Ting has built Boston Dental Group into one of the most recognized dental entities in Las Vegas.

Traxodent from Premier Dental is designed to offer quick, effective retraction in about two minutes without hemostatic solutions, which eliminates fumbling and saves chair time. 

The Lab: Sikes Dental Studios is a full-service lab in Charlotte, N.C., specializing in highly esthetic results for a variety of clients who request a variety of solutions. The lab is small with seven full-time technicians, an office manager and a delivery person on staff.

New to the U.S. market, Anthos digital dental units were developed to provide each dentist with a digital treatment center designed to suit their own operatory style. 

Supersmile’s Dr. Irwin Smigel, known as the “Father of Aesthetic Dentistry,” wanted to set new standards of beauty and performance for the dental industry.

Though the last few years have seen a significant rise in monolithic restorations made out of materials like zirconia and lithium disilicate, there are plenty of labs that still specialize in PFM restorations-and have the esthetic results to make that choice a viable one.

Dr. Joseph Kim shares a case study where he demonstrates the replacement of two implant supported PFM crowns using BISCO ® dental adhesive.  

These autoclavable, silicone-handled dental instruments are color coded and made of surgical-grade stainless steel.

According to the American Dental Association, more than 200,000 injuries could be prevented each year if an athlete was wearing a mouthguard. With this statistic in mind, Anastasia Turchetta, RDH, believes there is an opportunity for dental practices throughout the nation to “do well by doing good.”

It’s often the first sign to a dental patient that something might be wrong in his or her mouth … bleeding gums. They may not know the term “periodontal disease,” but your patients certainly know about bleeding gums.

As Carestream Dental announces it’s revamped Dental Summit, DPR wanted to get an inside look at how Carestream Dental believes this summit will affect and education the dental industry. We recently spoke with Mary Conditt, Director of Clinical Affairs for Carestream Dental.

NSK engineers and manufactures all handpiece components in-house, and, since the company directly controls the quality of its handpieces, they are designed to deliver the reliability clinicians need.