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Keating Dental Arts, Inc. (KDA), a full-service laboratory in California recently announced that it has prevailed in a two-year trademark dispute brought against KDA by Glidewell Laboratories, a Calif.-based provider of dental products and services. Glidewell has also announced that a judge has upheld the validity of their BruxZir trademark.

In an effort to optimize the handling of their products, BEGO is introducing a new packaging concept for the BEGO Implant Systems product portfolio.

What words should you never use with an irate patient or employee? Find out here …

Scotchbond™ Universal Adhesive from 3M ESPE has been honored with a prestigious Red Dot Design Award. Created with simplicity and ease of use in mind, the new dental product was recognized for its flip-top vial delivery option, which allows for one-hand operation.

Help your dentists choose a cement that will deliver optimum bonding to the CAD/CAM restorations your lab creates.

Life just got a little simpler at Dr. Jeff Blank’s practice.

Doctors Kent Stapley and Ray Elliotte offer compliments and perspective on what makes the DentiMax Dream Sensor a stand-out product in the crowded dental digital radiography market – namely, the boxless sensor’s cost, quality and outstanding customer support.

The right technologies and product mix are instrumental to any successful practice, whether you’ve been practicing for years or just opened a new office.

Accurate impressions depend on proper technique as well as desirable material characteristics. Elastomeric impression materials (polyethers, polyvinyl siloxanes, and hybrids) are popular impression materials because of their excellent physical and mechanical properties including excellent detail reproduction, high elastic recovery and good dimensional stability.

Kerr Dental’s new Nexus™ RMGI combines One-Peel™ cleanup, tack cure capability, and outstanding bond strength for consistent predictable outcomes. See the One-Peel™ cleanup first hand in the following sneak peek video:  

Picture this: A poster featuring a boy in old-fashioned short pants and with a bandaged face scrawling “Liar” in chalk on the wall of a dental office with a sign that reads “Painless Dentist.”

If you have a patient that is waiting for an appointment to start, you can bet that they're taking the infamous Dental Chair Selfie photo.

The Hyperion X9 by MyRay is a modular CBCT, panoramic and cephalometric system that comes with a wealth of smart features and is reportedly designed to meet the varying needs of dental practices.

REALITY's Top Choices THE SET-UP All tests performed in the Reality Research lab are performed by dentists­–not students or researchers–in a way that simulates actual clinical procedures as closely as possible.   THE CRITERIA Ideal characteristics:

1. Allows flexible dosing through a convenient automix syringe designed and sized for easy handling so the right amount can be dispensed each time with a consistent paste-paste ratio.

At Sirona’s “CAD/CAM for Everyone” event today, the company announced two new affordable additions to their growing roster of CAD/CAM products.

Glass ionomer cements (GIC) were introduced to restorative dentistry in the late 1970s, featuring a chemistry that differentiated the material from other restoratives. GICs are self-adhesive to enamel and dentin, provide caries protective fluoride release at the margins, can have the fluoride within their chemical matrix recharged by outside exposure to other fluoride containing materials, and provide moisture tolerance.

A new universal version of MacPractice Clipboard is available for the iPad and iPad Mini, offering enhanced features and expanded capabilities.

Dr. Fred S. Margolis explains how Filtek™ Bulk Fill Flowable Restorative meets the esthetic needs of all patients.

We talk with Dr. Michael Pelke on 3M ESPE's Elipar S10 LED curing light.

A contemporary hybrid implant, the 3i T3 implant by BIOMET offers three surface topographies intended to deliver aesthetic results through tissue preservation. 

What’s in a name? And does a name play a vital role in whether a dentist decides to purchase a particular product?

In my opinion, “ease-of-use” is one of the most important qualities in a curing light, particularly when multiple professionals in a busy practice use it. It can be frustrating to spend time deciphering instructions or double-checking settings on a curing light according to who used it last and for what purpose.

DPR has launched a new eNewsletter: Technique Geek. Each week, we'll feature a video technique of a product in use, offering step-by-step examples of clinical success. Subscribe here to make sure you receive them all.

The 3M ESPE Changing Lives movement encouraged dentists to rediscover the joy that comes with doing well by doing good. Two dentists tell the stories of how they used 3M ESPE's Filtek Supreme Ultra to do just that.   

Dr. Grant Chyz always found it troubling when he had to choose between strength and esthetics. It bothered him to know he either had to use a composite that looked good but didn’t hold up, or a product that offered the strength he wanted but not the esthetics. He always thought his patients deserved both.

Homecare is key to oral health success, but the trick is getting patients to follow through. Here’s how to not only find out what they need, but how to get them to comply.

Dr. Tim Burke noticed something right away when he began using 3M ESPE’s Clinpro 5000 anti-cavity toothpaste about a year-and- a-half ago: His patients were actually complying with their home care.

Here are five reasons you should consider the 3M ESPE Elipar™ S10 LED Curing Light.

In this Technique Geek clinical video, Dr. Mike DiTolla offers a video how-to demonstrating how he uses Kerr Dental’s new Nexus RMGI cement to complete an anterior restoration.