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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.

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Fred Joyal is CEO of 1?800-DENTIST and author of Everything is Marketing: The Ultimate Strategy for Dental Practice Growth. He can be reached at goaskfred.com.

November 2010 | Dental Lab Products It’s not quite as light as the element from which it draws its name, but the latest iterations of Apple’s ultra-trim MacBook Air are getting mighty close.

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VENICE, Fla., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Zimmer Dental and XCPT Communication Technologies, LLC have signed a three year agreement to collaborate by incorporating XCPT's innovative software applications into Zimmer Dental's Digital Dentistry initiatives.  

Information provided by NevinLabs. With a balanced, lightweight and compact body designed to reduce hand fatigue, the LabPro™ handpiece provides optimum comfort and increased efficiency even on delicate pieces of work requiring extended periods of time.

Online marketing is becoming essential for many small businesses. Patients increasingly turn to the internet to seek and connect with service providers. The dental market has gone digital, with leading practices developing a web presence via websites and social media initiatives. This shift has made the internet a more crowded and competitive space for practices. Increasingly dentists and specialists are implementing sophisticated online promotion advertising to fortify their search engine visibility. Specifically we are experiencing a tremendous growth in online PPC advertising.

SYRACUSE, N.Y., July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Practicing good oral hygiene and receiving regular dental exams are critical to good oral health, yet many Aspen Dental dentists report that patients continue to delay care, a decision that can prove costly down the road.

February 6, 2010 | dlpmagazine.com web exclusive Is my business a target for burglary? Dental laboratories and dental offices are on thieves' radar. Here are some tips to protect

Primotec will sponsor a pair of courses in April and May designed to help technicians improve their efficiency and accuracy. The "Advanced Phaser Welding Course" will be held in Los Angeles May 29 and will cover everything from the basics of how to properly set up the phaser to how to weld partials, crowns and bridges, and implants quickly and easily without distortion.

For more than 50 years dental laboratories have worked hard to differentiate their individual laboratory from the masses. In the early 1960s porcelain fused to metal restorations were just beginning to “come of age” and a few smart dental laboratories took advantage of this new technique to try to stand out from the crowd. There have been other techniques, materials and product/service innovations that laboratories have used over the years to try and gain a competitive advantage in an industry where everyone offers the same types of products and services.

Julie Charlestein, president of Premier Dental, considers it her privilege to carry on the legacy of the company that was founded by her great grandfather and namesake,  Julius Charlestein, in 1913. The family-owned and operated company develops, manufactures and distributes health care products through a worldwide network of dealers.

March 24, 2010 | dentalproductsreport.com web exclusive "I am changed." An excerpt from our exclusive interview with Dr. Julia Zervos, a U.S. dentist in Haiti at th

REALITY's Top Choices THE SET-UP All tests performed in the Reality Research lab are performed by dentists-not students or researchers-in a way that simulates actual clinical procedures as closely as possible. THE CRITERIA Ideal characteristics:

Applying new technologies: Solidscape's D66+ and D76+ wax printers The preXacto™ series of compact, benchtop 3D waxup printers are designed to allow small- and medium-sized labs to produce quality wax structures for pressing and casting with a short return on investment. The basic D66+ unit is capable of producing up to 750 units/month, while the larger D76+ model doubles production to 1,500 units/month.

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