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In this video interview, DPR legal analyst Michael Sacopulos offers tips on how you should handle e-mails from your dental patients. Sacopulos is the author of the Dental Products Report online series: Ask the Lawyer, which provides an opportunity for dentists to have their legal questions answered with in-depth and helpful information.

One of the most critical responsibilities an office manager has is to manage the schedule. The dentist wants it to be productive. The hygienists want it to be full. The assistants want it to have enough time to turn over rooms and catch up on cleaning instruments. The secretaries are busy trying to fill the schedule when it has holes and confirm and take care of patients when it’s full.

No dental professional sets out to become Gordon Christensen - not even Dr. Christensen himself. And while today he is able to fill conference rooms, influence product development, and help direct attention to key trends and causes, it wasn’t something that happened overnight.

Dental Products Report Executive Editor Stan Goff talks with CMO/Director of Business Development for Carestream Dental Dr. Edward Shellard about the new CS 7600 digital intraoral radiography system at CDA 2012. This compact system was introduced earlier this year at the Chicago Dental Society's Midwinter Meeting.

Dental Lab Products Managing Editor Noah Levine talks with Vident Product Marketing Manager, Peter Newell, about the VITApan Plus Denture Teeth Line. "The VITApan Plus is an extension to the VITApan, which has been in the market for over 30 years," said Newell. "The anatomical, as well as the ergonomic look of the characterization of VITApan Plus is what really sets it apart in the marketplace."

Investing in the latest technology can provide large benefits for a practice, but with any technology, what was once new and cutting edge eventually becomes out of date.

Dental Lab Products Managing Editor Noah Levine talks with Ted Smudde, Managing Director for Candulor USA Inc., about the top denture cases from the KunstZahnWek "Art of Denture" Competition North American show. "We had 50 people who registered to participate in the competition," said Smudde. "We were pleasantly surprised by the quality in the final results."

Hailed as the most significant and sophisticated release since the launch of CEREC 3D almost a decade ago, CEREC®  Software 4.0 brings out the full potential of the CEREC AC Acquisition unit and its Bluecam imaging technology. Multitasking: Users can work on multiple restoration designs at the same time. Restorations also can be designed in different modes for greater flexibility.

In this live CDA video interview, Executive Editor Stan Goff talks with J Rousek Toy Company Vice Chairman Allan Pietrasanta about dental toys and give-aways and

Michael Delano, Product Specialist with Carestream Dental talks about the launch of CS SoftDent Software version 15 with Stan Goff, Executive Editor, Dental Products Report, live from the convention floor at the California Dental Association trade show.

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park in Boston, Objet Ltd., produced this massive replication of the Boston Red Sox's ballpark on an Objet Connex500 multi-material 3D printer.

In this live CDA 2012 video interview DPR Director of Content Thais Carter talks with Dr. Mik Falkel, Onpharma's Founder and Chief Medical Officer, about the the introduction of precision buffering of local anesthetic to dentistry. "We haven't had that before and it allows for less injection pain for dental patients," said Falkel.

Dental Products Report Director of Content Thais Carter talks with Paquita Poindexter, Marketing Manager for 3M ESPE, about the new 3M ESPE Retraction Capsule. "The retraction capsule is an innovative product that will now allow dentists to use a retraction paste to do general retraction," said Poindexter. "The retraction capsule features an ultra-fine tip that fits right into the sulcus for paste application."

Hans Van Horssen of Garrison Dental Solutions introduces the company's new Composi-Tight 3D Clear sectional matrix system during this interview with Dental Products Report Executive Editor Stan Goff. This new system allows dentists to cure through the matrix band, ring and wedge itself.

Dental Lab Products Managing Editor Noah Levine talks with Carl Horrocks from 3Shape about the new TRIOS intraoral impression system at CDA 2012. "The Trios is a digital impression taking intraoral scanner that is an open system," said Horrocks. "The machine is on a cart with wheels so it's very easy to move around. It's also touchscreen and you can send to any laboratory with the open lab feature."

Acme Dental introduces its new PF-4 Evolution Vacuum at CDA 2012 during a live video interview with DPR Executive Editor Stan Goff. Acme Dental's new technology in dental suction systems offers dentists a source of dental suction and vacuum in their dental office's utility room.

In this live interview from CDA 2012, Dental Lab Products Managing Editor Noah Levine talks about Sirona's inLab 4.0 software with Jeff Youngerman, Territory Manager for Sirona Dental Systems. "This is the first time that Sirona has produced a software that is really 100 percent lab software," said Jeff Youngerman. "We've taken it to the next level."

Dr. Eugene Casagrande, DDS, Milestone Scientific Director of International and Professional Relations, discusses the innovative STA SIngle Tooth Anesthesia System Unit. "The STA device is a computer-controlled delivery system that takes the place of a syringe, which we have been using for 160 years," said Casagrande. "It can do all the same injections a syringe does, using the same drugs that that are used with a syringe."

Oliver Gelles, Sr. VP of Marketing for DenMat, talks about the launch of the FLASHlite Magna 4.0 LED curing light. "The FLASHlite Magna 4.0 curing light offers the best value in curing today," said Gelles. "At only $750, it's one of the most powerful and focused lights on the market." Recently, DenMat has incorporated the Legacy brands from Discus.

This live video interview from CDA 2012 features Jim Crowley, Sinsational Smile Founder, who describes the Sinsational Smile whitening system and how it works. The system combines LED technology with an exclusively formulated whitening (FDA approved) gel. This special gel contains more than just ingredients for whitening. It contains a proprietary catalyst which when combined with LED light, activates the whitening gel to work at a faster rate, resulting in a brighter smile and whiter teeth in less time.

Jessica Zaneis, Sales Consultant/Trainer, with Premier Dental Products Co., talks with Thais Carter, Director of Content for Dental Products Report, live from the convention floor at the California Dental Association trade show.

In this live video interview from CDA 2012, Executive Editor Stan Goff talks with Stacey Williams, Director of Marketing about the XENOLITE lead-free x-ray apron.

In this live video interview from CDA 2012, Executive Editor Stan Goff talks with Dr. Gary Bailey about the TAP oral appliance used to treat sleep apnea from Airway Management.

In this live video interview from CDA 2012, Executive Editor Stan Goff talks with Karen Phillips from Ultradent about the company's new VALO Cordless curing light and also the new composite veneer system, Edelweiss.

J. Daniel Clementino, Manufacturer’s Representative with Kuraray America, Inc., provides the highlights to three new dental products with Stan Goff, Executive Editor at Dental Products Report, live from the convention floor at the California Dental Association’s trade show.

In this live CDA video interview, Executive Editor Stan Goff talks with American Academy of Periodontology Past President Dr. Donald S. Clem, DDS, about the recent news linking periodontal diseases and cardiovascular diseases.

Millennium Dental Technologies’ founders Robert Gregg, DDS, President and Chairman, and Delwin McCarthy, DDS, CTO/Co-Founder, speak with Thais Carter, Advanstar Dental Media’s Director of Content, live on the convention floor of the California Dental Association’s trade show.

Listen to iOS Technologies President Duane Durbin's interview with Dental Lab Products Managing Editor Noah Levine, straight from the tradeshow floor at this year's California Dental Association Anaheim meeting. Durbin highlights two new products, the FastScan Intraoral Digital Scanner and the Lab Scanner.

In this live CDA video interview, Dental Lab Products Managing Editor Noah Levine talks with Allie Smith from Whip Mix Corp. about the new Denar 300 Series articulators.

Patrick McCormick, CFO of Millennium Dental Technologies, talks with Thais Carter, Director of Content at Dental Products Report, live from the convention floor at the California Dental Association trade show.