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1. Created to address the complications of crown-preparation requirements in patients with gingival recession, the extra-long, “perio-length” diamond (S6856XL.FG.021) is engineered to maintain an ideal position and angle of the handpiece.

Athletes at the peak of health may set world records and win gold medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games, but there is a way they can be even stronger and more fit. 

Seven dental products debuted on www.dentalproductsreport.com during the week of July 23, 2012. Those products are...

A pair of recently released market analysis reports point to the steady growth of digital technologies in use in the dental space, with a projection that the global market for 3D printing will hit $3 billion by 2018 and the dental CAD/CAM market will reach $540 million by 2016.

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I’ve been buffering my local anesthetic injections with Onset from Onpharma for almost two years now-and so I’ve got a pretty good idea how it benefits my practice. Getting profound analgesia more quickly and predictably allows me to stay on schedule and makes my day go smoothly. For this article, I wanted to compare my perception with the perceptions of the four other people who also are intimately familiar with my practice: My dental assistants, my patient coordinator, and my hygienist. Here is what they said:

Have you seen these best-read web exclusives? Here are the top articles your dental peers are reading this week.

I guess one could say I was not instantly convinced. My introduction to digital impressions began in 2003 with a CEREC® 3 demonstration at a dental convention. From the beginning, I was fascinated with the digital imaging portion of the technology, but was resistant to change.

You’re good at what you do. Your staff and patients love you. You’re at the top of your game and feeling good about your career-no one can stop you.

A milling machine and dentures highlight the products that debuted during the week of July 23, 2012 on www.dlpmagazine.com. In case you missed those products, here’s a list of them with links to the information and the company websites:

Jeanne Godett, RDH, cannot imagine working without one. In fact, she doesn’t know why any practice wouldn’t use KaVo’s QUATTROcare Plus handpiece maintenance system.

Recently the New York Times reported that President Obama is threatening to strip the insurance industries’ exemption to the antitrust laws because the insurance industry is using “deceptive and dishonest” advertisements to derail his health insurance reform. At the same time, the Senate Judiciary Committee is conducting hearings on the antitrust exemption for insurance companies. Senate Bill S.1681 has been introduced in the Senate to prevent insurance industry price fixing, bid rigging and market allocation. 

DUX Dental, located in Oxnard, Calif., is well known for its quality dental products that range from leaded aprons, to temporary cements, to disposable bib holders and much more.The company, which has manufactured and distributed these products worldwide for more than five decades, has now conducted its “Bib-Eze for Boob-Eze” campaign for four years.?

This morning, 11 dentists received a special delivery letter that changed their lives forever. It began, “Dear Doctor: We represent your patient Jane Doe and demand that within the next 10 days, you submit your entire records and x-rays for her treatment.”

The practicing dentist works diligently to accumulate assets and income. He or she has little time or inclination to consider that someone may attempt to take those assets or income by starting litigation. Maybe the thought of a potential lawsuit has not entered the dentist’s mind. Why should it? The dentist may think “What could I possibly do to cause someone to sue me?”

Your hands are your livelihood. In a flash, a career that took decades to achieve can come to an end. Meanwhile, the monthly bills keep rolling in and financial obligations mount as you’re out of work. This is an unpleasant but important topic for all dentists.

The world’s largest distributor of health care products, Henry Schein, Inc., is growing even larger with the recent acquisitions of three companies in different parts of the health care industry.

Photo-polymerization, i.e. light-initiated polymerization, has become an integral part of modern dentistry.

Dr. Philip Kroll was using another DUX product,  the reversible hydrocolloid, when the company suggested he give ShortCut GingiBRAID a try a little more than a year ago. While quite satisfied with their existing retraction cord product, he and his staff at the California general practice were glad they made the switch.

Lab technicians worldwide want high-performance precision instruments, but they also want simplification-not an abundance of different widgets, each for a different application, cluttering the lab bench.

Dental laboratories interested in adding Roland’s DWX-50 mill to their CAD/CAM operations can now look to Whip Mix, as the Louisville, Ky., company recently announced it is an authorized provider of the milling system.

NEW ORLEANS, July 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- New Orleans nascent biotech company, Theodent, has been awarded one of the most prestigious international design awards in the world, the Red Dot for innovative product design, for their unconventional "chocolate toothpaste" packaging.

High-tech doesn’t have to mean bad for the planet. In fact, upping your practice’s use of technology is one of the easiest ways to lighten your environmental impact and make your practice more attractive to patients looking to lighten their own impacts. Whether through reduction of waste, energy savings or simply by promoting an eco-friendly wellness model of care, all of the these product categories qualify as “green.” Click here to see a slideshow of the product categories and thoughts on what makes each one "green." 

So you want to get your office going digital? Maybe you want to integrate digital radiography (only 50% of offices are currently digital) or maybe you want to finally go to the totally digital record and at long last get rid of all those charts.

Well known author and expert on relationships, Alan Cohen, said, “In our culture, presence in many relationships has been reduced to a trickle. In our fascination with labor-saving devices, mass production, lightening speed dental technology and unprecedented busyness, the human factor is often relegated to a low priority.

Tell them what’s in it for them. Want to improve patient case acceptance in your practice? Make sure you’re using benefit statements when you present treatment, said Lois Banta of Banta Consulting.  

Dental cases have been modeled for decades mainly using various dental waxes or PMMA powder-liquid resins, but while offering decent results, this is truly a case where, “The best is the enemy of the good.”

Digitalization in the dental office can add to-not take away from-your focused attention on quality dental care and excellent “people care.” The third installment to Dental Products Report's Paperless Video Series breaks down the top three ways a paperless system can enhance the dental patient's experience.  

This week's episode of DPR Friday features Dr. Leonard Hess's column on preventing clinical failures. Getting it right the first time is just one of the Dawson Academy team member's tips. The three major forms of failure that Dr. Hess will explain are bacteria, force management and esthetics and patient comfort.