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Nobel Biocare establishes Preferred Partner Program with Ivoclar Vivadent
March 21st 2012Zurich, Switzerland – Nobel Biocare announced today that it has signed a preferred partnership agreement with Ivoclar Vivadent as part of a newly established Preferred Partner Program. The collaboration with Ivoclar Vivadent will offer Nobel Biocare additional access to high-performance ceramic and acrylic prosthetic materials, thereby enabling Nobel Biocare to expand its leading restorative and prosthetic portfolio through new products, solutions and materials.
How to: Graft an extraction socket
March 21st 2012Socket grafting is an increasingly common procedure. Current conventional wisdom is that the extraction socket should be grafted irrespective of whether a dental implant placement is planned. Socket grafting helps to maintain the ridge by regenerating new bone. The result is better both functionally and cosmetically. DentoGen® is a medical-grade calcium sulfate hemihydrate-based bone graft material developed and sold by Orthogen LLC. DentoGen is indicated as:
Communicating with patients of Record, Part III
March 21st 2012There are two benefits your practice realizes from getting its patients to submit posts to customer review sites* and your social media. First, people increasingly depend upon service review sites in forming their opinions about a product or service, which in turn, predisposes them to making their product or service selection.
NIH grant funds four-year study to predict caries risk
March 21st 2012Scientists seeking to predict a person’s risk for developing dental caries by identifying the presence of harmful oral bacteria have to date identified only about 800 of the thousands of microbes residing in the human oral cavity. But now a multimillion grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to the J.
APPLYING Blackline handpiece in your practice
March 21st 2012The Blackline® Highspeed Handpiece series features Carbon Fiber, the newest of Bien-Air’s technological advancements in dental handpieces. A light-weight core combined with optimal strength offers maneuverability and longevity for the user.
How to: Better place posterior composites
March 21st 2012Ambient light in the dental office or operatory is one of the most common causes of direct restorative failure due to premature polymerization of composite resin materials.1,2 Premature polymerization has been directly related to an increased risk of staining, bacterial accumulation, marginal leakage and secondary caries.3 It also will prevent the clinician from bringing restorations to full contour, increasing the time in finishing and
Benchmark: Practical Dental Solutions' YAPI
March 21st 2012Have you ever wished you had an extra employee whose job was to organize all of the practice information you generate each day and use it to help you run your practice more efficiently? Obviously a position like this would not be a cost-effective tool for practice improvement in any but the largest offices. Fortunately Dr.
Laboratory forum to be part of Nobel Biocare Global Symposim
March 21st 2012Emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary teamwork in restorative dental care, the Nobel Biocare Global Symposium-Thursday through Sunday, June 24-26, at the Waldorf-Astoria New York-will feature a focused session on dental laboratory innovation, esthetic skills, and the impact of new technology on the dental laboratory Saturday morning.
MicroDental exclusive manufacturer of PPM mouthguards
March 21st 2012MicroDental Laboratories, the largest full-service dental laboratory in Northern Calif., today announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Makkar Athletics Group to be the sole manufacturer of the PPM (Pure Power Mouthguard).
Career guide for hygienists published
March 21st 2012September 28, 2010, Sun Prairie, Wis.-Exploring Transitions, LLC announces a third in their series of books for the dental and dental hygiene market. The Purple Guide: Paper Persona the newest installment in the series of books to support dental hygienists.
High-tech, high-touch: The power of the green dental team
March 21st 2012Is your staff referring to itself as office furniture? At a recent convention, I asked a young woman about her role in the practice, to which she responded: “I’m the front desk.” This employee has clearly lost a sense of her true value to the dental practice, and it’s likely the office is losing out on the benefit this woman could be providing as communications central.
Scientific Metals refines dental scrap
March 21st 2012The Lab Williams and Harris Dental Laboratory, Richmond, Va., staffs 6-8 employees. Tim Lucero described the lab as a full-service lab that has been in business for more than 30 years. The Problem This lab has used the same alloys for many years and the metals get collected in a very specific way-a system which hasn’t changed over the years, Lucero said. And while metal prices and the lab’s metal invoices have been soaring in recent years, the lab’s scrap returns were relatively flat.
