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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.

Mike Cindrich, North American Sales Manager with Acteon North America, provides a demonstration of the AIR-N-GO polisher to Stan Gogg, Executive Editor, Dental Products Report, live from the convention floor of the California Dental Association trade show.

This CDA SoundCloud audio interview with AJ Posca from Posca Brothers Dental Lab highlights the company's new ThermoDent material for denture bases. Posca Brothers Dental Lab is family owned and operated, and has been providing dental professionals with excellent service and top quality products for over 40 years. Posca Brothers Dental Lab is located at Booth #2540.

Kamarin Shakibkhou, of DINO, talks about the Kid’s Dental Chair with Stan Goff, Executive Editor at Dental Products Report, live from the convention floor at the California Dental Association trade show. “It’s just for kids,” said Shakibkhou. There’s a fox model that has monitor, a light and a moving head that looks like a fox.

In this SoundCloud playlist, Dental Products Report Director of Content Thais Carter provides a brief run-down of selected headlining speakers, topics and noteworthy CE opportunities available at the California Dental Association's Scientific Session. To name just a few, Dr. Lee Ann Brady, Dr. Henry A. Gremillion, and Dr. Gerard Kugel will be heading up lectures and workshops touching on subjects including occlusion, esthetic dentistry and porcelain laminate veneers.

DPR Director of Content Thais Carter kicks off the California Dental Association's Scientific Session in Anaheim, CA with an interview featuring GrindCare's Product and Marketing Director Ernst-Ulrik Haxthausen. GrindCare has developed a new, breakthrough device that measures and quantifies bruxism in dental patients. The bruxism management device can also be used to help treat bruxism. Bruxism, or teeth grinding, is a common problem many of your patients are possibly suffering from.

In this CDA live video interview from the show floor, DPR Executive Editor Stan Goff talks with Patterson Dental President Paul Guggenheim about Patterson's role in the future of oral healthcare. "Patterson is excited about the future of oral healthcare and our position in that important future," said Guggenheim. "We're very focused on enhancing the patient experience."

This SoundCloud audio clip from the California Dental Association's Scientific Session features an interview with HealthSouk. Healthsouk.com is an online dental plan that allows dentists to set their fees on-demand and offer discounts with no traditional patient claims. Named for after the word for an open-air marketplace, the service aims to provide that for the dental space. The concept is based on letting dentists stimulate demand for their services by offering competitive appointment times and prices.

If you’ve read my dental columns over the years, you know I’m incredibly finicky about computer backups. A digital office is absolutely dependent on a consistent and repeatable backup schedule. I cannot stress that fact enough. The saying among geeks like myself is, “The failure rate of hard drives is always 100%.”

Whether you are attending this week’s California Dental Association’s (CDA) Anaheim tradeshow or not, this is the place you want to be to find out everything that will be going on at the show throughout the event, courtesy of the team from Dental Products Report and Dental Lab Products.

As the dental industry converges in Anaheim, CA this week for the California Dental Association meeting, many dentists will be seeking ways to reduce their patient’s exposure to radiation from dental x-rays.

The SuniRay Digital Radiography System, designed and manufactured here in the United States, was shown in a recent evaluation to require the lowest radiation to capture a diagnostic-quality dental x-ray.

We published an article back in 2010 about dental anxiety written by Jackie Foskett, RDH, BS, who is a Certified Hypnotherapist and founder of Healing Hypnotherapy. Foskett outlined the benefits associated with using guided relaxation in the dental office.

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  New dentists looking for a chance to network and learn from their peers should plan to attend the ADA New Dentist Committee as it hosts the 26th New Dentist Conference June 22-24, in Washington, D.C.  

You walk into the reception area and call your patient’s name. Right away, you see the fear in her face as she rises gingerly from her seat. She’s nervous, she tells you, and really doesn’t want to be here.

The development of bulk fill composites for direct posterior restorations has provided a simple and efficient alternative to conventional composites. Prior to bulk fill composite materials, to achieve successful direct posterior restorations the layering technique was the necessary procedure, requiring competence, proficiency and dexterity.

Full Contour is a business that exists in the cloud and other digital spaces. Just five years ago it would have been extremely difficult to create a Web-based digital design service, but today Full Contour is thriving thanks to the rapid expansion of cloud computer and a world connected via the Web.