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SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, April 12, 2010-Heraeus, the worldwide leader in dental esthetics, is pleased to announce its educational sessions for the upcoming 26th Annual AACD Scientific Session on Tuesday, April 27 – Saturday, May 1, 2010 in Grapevine, Texas. The meeting convenes world-class clinical leaders, dental professionals and journalists to discuss and showcase the latest and most progressive advancements in cosmetic dentistry.

August 20, 2010 | dentalproductsreport.com news Straumann announces events Straumann Corporate Forum American Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons - 2010 Annual Meeting McCormick Place West and Hilton Chicago Chicago, Illinois Making It Work: Efficient Implant Protocols to Maximize Profits and Referrals in the OMS Practice, Dr. Kanyon Keeney; Dr. David Schwab

In light of GC Corporation's 90th anniversary, Thais Carter sat down last Fall with Makoto Nakao, CEO for GC Corporation, at the ADA Annual Session to discuss key concepts behind the company's success and plans for new products to come.

February 18, 2010 | dlpmagazine.comNEWSIvoclar Vivadent named NADL Manufacture Member of the YearThe National Association of Dental Laboratories (NADL) congratulates Ivoclar Vivadent for re

Hu-Friedy launched its Environdent instrument recycling program 15 years ago, long before it was the cause du-jour. In celebration of its 15th anniversary, the Environdent program is being updated to make it even more accessible.

January 26, 2010 | dlpmagazine.comNewsNobel Biocare settles suit against Blue Sky BioNobel Biocare has announced that the company has reached an agreement with Blue Sky Bio to settle their out

January 29, 2010 | Dental Products Report Web Exclusive Dentist You Should Know: Dr. Joshua Austin With a four-month old office in San Antonio, Dr. Austin believes there was no

REALITY’s Top Choices THE SET-UP REALITY has chosen to designate two separate categories to highlight: Total-Etch and Self-Etch. THE RESULTS | Total-Etch OptiBond FL, Kerr Corp. With a clinical heritage second to none, it is the safe choice for all but metal-based indirects.

Dr. Michael R. Sesemann and his team can’t imagine going back. For more than 20 years, they’ve used the incremental placement technique for direct posterior composites in an effort to minimize polymerization stress, and that meant using three different composites to finish a restoration. This is a very labor intensive process, Dr.

York, Pa.-Tom McPherson, CDT, owner, and LJ McPherson of Echo Dental Laboratory in Fairview, N.C. joined DENTSPLY Prosthetics on March 4 for a two day, 3Shape Training course that covered an introduction to the scanner, its features and its capabilities. DENTSPLY Prosthetics offers the 3Shape technical training to customers with their purchase of the system to teach them basic operations, and learn how to drive the 3Shape’s “Live Case” functionality.  

We will be posting exclusive dental cartoons every week for your viewing and caption writing fun. We are asking you to tell the story of what's happening in the cartoon. Write your most creative caption and submit it below to see if yours will become the next Dental Caption of the Week.

Have you ever heard of the Institute for Oral Health? This organization identifies best practices in oral health and then encourages collaboration between dental insurance companies, physicians, dentists (private practice, academia and public health) and researchers to benefit the public and the profession. This year’s annual conference theme was on preventive dentistry and I was lucky to attend.

As the number of women in the industry continues to grow--in the practice, in the lab, in the schools and in the manufacturing sector--Dental Products Report wanted to develop an award that recognizes them for their many contributions. This year, our second soliciting nominations, the publication received more than 300 outstanding submissions among the five categories: dentists, team members, dental lab, research and education, and industry.

Applying New Technologies: Cercon brain expert The Cercon brain expert highspeed CAD/CAM milling machine is engineered to shape discs of pre-sintered zirconia and resin cast materials with maximum precision. The Cercon brain expert enhances productivity and throughput due to its contact free linear drive motor for highspeed milling. The 4-axis milling design, high-quality milling spindle, and direct measuring system deliver consistent, precise results and make automatic adjustments to ensure accuracy and marginal integrity of the milled coping.

January 26, 2010 | dlpmagazine.comWeb Exclusive Follow me to a great dentistMixing humor with an important message, Maverick Dental Lab markets its dentists to the public. By Pam Johns

Every team member has a role to play in making sure hygiene patients feel comfortable and well taken care of. Because the hygiene visit is the appointment patients are most likely to cancel, your words and tone must be consistently professional and compassionate.

Maintaining excellent hygiene can be a challenge during orthodontic treatment. However, this problem can be addressed with the use of 3M ESPE’s Vanish™ XT extended contact varnish, combined with ongoing daily brushing with a fluoride toothpaste. Vanish XT immediately creates a protective barrier on the tooth and provides a long-term release of fluoride, calcium and phosphate. The varnish can be applied either directly following bracket placement or later, depending on the patient’s level of risk, and its effectiveness continues for up to six months after placement.

Students in the dental hygiene program at the College of DuPage in west suburban Chicago recently celebrated their entry into the profession with a pinning ceremony. Besides successfully completing the classes they needed to graduate, they also had another reason to celebrate. All but one of the 28 students in the class of 2011 passed the National Board Dental Hygiene examination.  The dental hygiene program is on a roll. In the previous seven years, 100 percent of the students taking the exam passed it.

  Reminding patients to come to their scheduled appointments can be costly. Buying recall cards, paying for postage and staff hours spent mailing the cards all take time and money. And after all that, chances are those reminders will go straight from your patients’ mailboxes to their recycle bins.

With the advent of vital tooth bleaching, the market has been flooded with options leaving  patients confused about the process and often misled by Internet marketing and unsupervised OTC products. For a lot of our patients, nighttime bleaching with custom trays is simply not an option although it is a preferred method for many dentists as it uses carbamide peroxide with lower concentration and slower release time.

Olivier Brix, MDT, will be presenting his two-day "Art of Esthetics and Ceramics Master Course" in June on the 25th and 26th at the Ivoclar Vivadent educational facility in Sarasota, Fla. and again on June 28th and 29th at Ivoclar's educational facility in Amherst, NY.

National Dentex Corporation, one of the largest owner/operators of dental laboratories in North America, announced that its shareholders adopted and approved a merger agreement with GeoDigm Corporation. National Dentex continues as the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of GeoDigm, a technology based manufacturing and laboratory company and a portfolio company of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe ("Welsh Carson").

You’ve likely noticed a change in your patients. The patients who come through your practice are more selective these days. the economy has made that a necessity for most americans, whether you’re talking about the type of dentistry they choose to go forward with or the type of car they opt to buy. Americans, in general, don’t have the discretionary income they once did, and that means expensive treatment plans aren’t in the budget.

March 26, 2010 | dlpmagazine.comNewsVident's Dr. Martin Mendelson receives recognition award Vident Director for Professional Development, Dr. Martin Mendelson, recently accepte

No matter how big or small your lab is, you’re not in this alone.

CAD/CAM dental offices have the opportunity to use the system’s excess capacity and the practice’s existing dental staff to develop another revenue source. With the pieces already in place to produce state-of-the-art dental restorations, it is possible-through a boutique commercial dental lab-to profit from those underachieving periods during a normal day. These doctor labs can operate within the existing dental practice without disrupting patient treatment.

Today Apple launched its latest generation of the iPhone, and as always seems to be the case when this company is launching something new, the media and general public are rapt in anticipation. However, this launch was the company’s first big move since founder and technology icon Steve Jobs stepped down from an active roll in running things and the press event seemed a bit lackluster without his smirking boasts about the wonderful things the company's latest can do.

During its recent two-day Lean Education Symposium of Dental Technology, Whip Mix Corp.

DENTSPLY Prident expands Shanghai lab

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