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There are thousands of changes-some tiny, some large-every dental practice can implement to better its bottom line and success. Marketing. Staff changes. Budgets. Product choices. And too many more to count. Well, here’s a start.

Frontier Dental Laboratories has created Brilliance Z, a monolithic full-contour zirconia structure. Brilliance Z is made of pre-sintered yttria stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystalline ceramics (YTZP) for use as CAD/CAM milling blanks. It has a flexural strength of Mpa 1000 +/- 1-Mpa.

You’ve spent hundreds of hours for the past several years studying, learning documentation, scaling and polishing teeth. You’ve finally completed a rigorous curriculum and passed an exhaustive board exam. Now the time has come to implement your newly acquired abilities and begin your career as a Registered Dental Hygienist!

In anticipation of Children's National Dental Health Month this February, Dr. Sharp Natural Oral Care presents a natural, fluoride-free line for kids.

Roland DGA Corp.’s new DWX-4 compact dental mill has been qualified by 3M ESPE for use with the company's Lava Ultimate Restorative resin nano ceramic material. 

Danica Patrick is shining a spotlight on an often overlooked healthcare issue – oral health – as she teams up with Aspen Dental and Oral Health America to launch the Healthy Mouth Movement, a community giving initiative designed to deliver free dental care to thousands of people in need in communities across the U.S., and oral health education to millions more.

LED Medical Diagnostics Inc. has announced its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary, LED Dental Inc. has entered into a non-exclusive partnership with Patterson Dental for the distribution of the company’s VELscope® Vx Enhanced Oral Assessment System and product line within the US and Canadian markets.

ACTEON Group has announced it is merging the imaging units of SOPRO dental and De Götzen to create one ACTEON imaging business unit.

Designed to be ideal for LN2 freezing and long-term cryogenic freezer storage, laboratory labeling specialists CILS have launched a new computer printable durable label for ultra-low temperatures, providing immediate permanent adhesion to all cryovials, tubes and liquid straws stored down to -196ºC.

Is your practice’s Air Techniques air compressor or vacuum system a relic of the past?  If so, just submitting a photo of it to Air Techniques could win you a brand new unit.

The Enamelite Titanium Ceramic Bonding System was developed by a technician for technicians to overcome the problem that most often occurs when bonding ceramics to titanium to substructures and abutments.

Slick Bands™, from Garrison Dental Solutions, were the first matrix bands to virtually eliminate the problem of difficult-to-remove matrices. Developed as an improvement to the Composi-Tight 3D™ Sectional Matrix System, these are the original SM-series Slick Bands and have a thickness of .0016".

Want to make dental impressions with unprecedented speed, control and precision? Try out Imprint™ 4 VPS Impression Material. This innovative advancement in VPS dental impression material offers significant advantages over other fast-setting impression materials.

As modern-day dentists, we are faced with a complex set of treatment decisions, compelling us to continually weigh the available therapeutic choices as we push toward optimal patient care combined with efficient and profitable clinical practices.

Dr. Ben Miraglia has used 3M ESPE’s Imprint VPS impression materials in his practice for as long as he can remember.

Said to be the fastest impression material on the market, 3M ESPE Imprint™ 4 VPS impression material reportedly sets in just 75 seconds. 

Ben Miraglia, DDS, has had the opportunity to work with 3M ESPE’s Imprint™ 4 VPS impression material for the past several months. We talk to Miraglia about his first-hand experience with the new product and his suggestions for other clinicians.

How new Imprint 4 VPS impression material from 3M ESPE can help you create accurate impressions in less time. 

Marketing not a priority in your practice? Here are five ways a dental marketing consultant can help change that.

In this video from Kerr Dental, you can learn how dual arch impressions can make a difference in the restoration of your patients’ smiles and how you can correctly use this technique in your practice.

Core3daCADemy®, the educational arm of core3dcentres®, held its most recent aCADemy 1 “The Fundamentals of Scanning and Designing” program on January 15 and 16, 2014 at CAPE - The Center for Advanced Professional Education in Las Vegas, NV (Home of LVI–The Las Vegas Institute).

3Shape recently released its next generation Dental System™ 2014 to the market, which boasts new dental indications, a new user interface and optimized workflows for TRIOS® digital impressions.

3Shape, manufacturer of 3D scanners and CAD/CAM software solutions, has released a CAD software tool to the dental market that enables labs to provide common dental appliances as a new service.

Shareholders in Delcam, one of the world’s leading suppliers of advanced software for manufacturing industry, recently announced that they have voted to accept the offer made by Autodesk to acquire the company.

Apparently, the avian cast from the Angry Birds game aren’t content to just battle evil pigs anymore - now they’re targeting tooth decay as well.

GC America has sadly announced that, on December 27, 2013 Richard Atanay, West Coast Dental Laboratory Products Sales Representative for GC America, passed away.

LED Medical Diagnostics has announced it has signed an agreement with the BC Cancer Agency to form a collaborative relationship with Genome British Columbia (Genome BC) to create and commercialize a progression-risk assessment test for oral cancer.

Find out how to easily craft crown restorations in office using the 3M True Definition Scanner and TS150™ milling solution.

Vision USA, a Dentrex company, has introduced the Task-Vision Fresnel Lens Page Magnifier and Stand. Made of ophthalmic acrylic with excellent optics, the lens measures a huge 10” x 12” and the power is two times or greater.