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Dr. Mic Falkel, Founder and Chief Medical Officer for Onpharma Inc., said the company’s new Onset anesthetic buffering products–launched at the Chicago Midwinter Meeting in February–were a long time coming and worth the wait. Dr. Falkel started developing the idea about 9 years ago in an effort to improve to the way anesthetic worked in his practice.

I’ve been using lasers in my practice since 1998. Since they were  introduced in the mid-1990s strictly for use on soft tissue, diode lasers were, and continue to be, a tremendous boon to dentistry. I strongly believe operatories of the future will feature a diode laser next to the highspeed handpiece, built into every dental delivery system.

It never fails to amaze me how many dentists have purchased “stuff” for their practice, only to have an important piece of “must-have” technology gathering dust several weeks (or months) later for lack of use. Even in this challenging economy technology purchases are still being made, although many dentists and teams appear much more cynical when it comes to silver bullet promises or fairy tale hopes for results.

January 2010 | dlpmagazine.com Forward Trends Dentistry without borders How emerging technologies and new business models can connect you to a global market. by Richard Palmer Photo: Comstock/Getty Images It is a small world after all.

Bench Mastery: Handling Titanium As laboratory technicians, we are constantly made aware of new products and materials, and are subjected to much of the same marketing as dentists. However, we are in the unique position of having to fulfill our dentists’ requests to implement these new materials and discern what is hype and what works well. At the same time, now more than ever, we are under increasing pressure to keep costs down.

As I began doing more comprehensive cases in practice, I found fine-tuning occlusion to be a constant challenge. In searching for a solution, I was turned on to the T-Scan III, a thin arch-shaped sensor that can be used repeatedly on a single patient from start to finish. This simple device provides the extra level of information and accuracy I need in complex cases.

The history of the public's perception of dentistry may be viewed as consisting of three waves. I like to describe the first wave with the term "Feel Well Dentistry."  During this wave, dentists were perceived as first and foremost who to call to get you out of tooth pain. 

Colgate's Bright Smiles, Bright Futures national campaign to improve children's oral health joins Super Bowl champions Jonathan Vilma, Pierre Thomas, and Marques Colston and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeast Louisiana and Boys & Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast, to host festivals highlighting the importance of maintaining good oral health.  More than 600 children in New Orleans and Mississippi's Hancock and Harrison Counties will receive free dental screenings, oral health education and treatment referrals this weekend.

February 6, 2010 | dlpmagazine.com web exclusive Scanner manufacturers develop model-generation options There is an increasing number of options for labs working with dentists who prefer the traditional tray-based route of impression capture yet want to eliminate models from workflow procedures. by Richard Palmer, Managing Editor 

Sugar-free lollipops containing licorice root extract significantly reduced the bacteria that causes tooth decay, specifically among pre-school children with high-risk of tooth decay, according to a recent study published in the European Academy of Pediatric Dentistry.

Chlorine dioxide disinfectant, ClO2, well known as a biofilm remover in commerce and industry, is now available in DIOXIBRITE™ Toothpaste. This ingredient, combined in an oral product, removes stubborn films on teeth and gums harboring bacteria and odorous compounds. Additionally, chlorine dioxide, as a small non ionic molecule and a gas, easily penetrates between the teeth.

During a Facebook Q&A session with Thomas Trinkner, DDS, readers submitted questions regarding the

Photo:Top Row: Stuart Schultz, Cindy Murphy. Bryan Murphy Bottom Row: Helene Schultz, Juan Hamilton, Lorraine Golding

Basel, Switzerland, January 11, 2012 – The International Team for Implantology (ITI), a leading academic organization dedicated to the promotion of evidence-based education and research in the field of implant dentistry, is inviting submissions for the highly regarded André Schroeder Research Prize as of February 1, 2012.

In an open clearing, under the sunlight of Thailand and beneath the shade of a village tree in Burma, Dr. Joseph Whitehouse provided impromptu dental care that he never intended to practice abroad. Finding himself at the right place at the right time, while visiting remote villages in Southeast Asia, he began performing tooth extractions to local villagers that suffered from mild to severe dental complications.

01 What is the history of KOMET USA and of the globally known KOMET brand of rotary instruments?

January 2010 | Dental Products Report 10 questions: Rich Hirschland Q +A: Rich Hirschland President, Dental Systems Group for Carestream Health Inc.   Photo: President Dental Systems Group for Carestream Health Inc. 01 What sets PracticeWorks, a division of Carestream Health, apart from the rest of the industry?

With the economic prosperity of the eighties, and advances in esthetic dentistry and technology, many dentists became of the opinion that treating new patient emergencies was a waste of the dentist’s and team’s time. Symptomatic of this is what one heard when calling such a dental practice after hours: “If you are a patient of record with an extreme dental emergency you may call xxx-yyy-zzzz.” New patients were deliberately discouraged from calling.

Jensen Dental has acquired the assets of Chemichl AG, a world-class dental ceramic manufacturer located in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Chemichl is a diversified OEM developer and manufacturer of ceramic powders, ingots, and blocks for the worldwide market. Jensen, with headquarters in North Haven, CT, has purchased Chemichl as part of its strategy to develop new products to complement its long-term and ongoing commitment to the Willi Geller Creation line of ceramics.

February 12, 2010 | dentalproductsreport.com Web exclusive Adult products made kid-friendly A few modifications can be all it takes to turn a boring adult product into something fun th

January 8, 2010 | dlpmagzine.comNewsZest Anchors Inc. bought by Jordan Company LPA recent article published on the Web site of Buyouts magazine announced the purchase of Zest Anchors Inc. of E

The details that posterior teeth possess fascinate many dental professionals. The intricate lobes and forms that posteriors develop in nature are always fun and challenging to recreate when fabricating restorations. Many tools have been developed by companies to aid in this process, however I always have been fascinated by the handmade tools I have seen technicians create to aide in their quest to recreate nature.

In 20 minutes, Dr. David Grayson was able to help a 7-year-old girl to stop habitually sucking her thumb. He’s helped patients quit smoking, and he’s performed dental procedures without using a drop of anesthetic. He’s eased his patients’ fears and enabled them to get treatment they may otherwise have opted not to receive. And he’s done it all through clinical hypnosis.

Sometimes great ideas are just sitting out there waiting to happen. For William Provancher, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah, inspiration struck while he was watching a TV special about consummate Renaissance figure Leonardo Da Vinci.

Information available at belmontequip.com 1. Making adjustment easy, touchpad controls are built into the armrest castings on both the doctor’s and the assistant’s side of the chair. Easily accessed, these controls are used for adjusting seat positioning, selecting pre-set seat positions, Auto Return for patient dismissal and to unlock/lock seat rotation.

In early January, 3M ESPE announced that moving forward it would ensure the accurate fit of restorations created using its Lava™ Chairside Oral Scanner C.O.S., with a one-year guarantee for new doctors. The program is intended to highlight the system’s accuracy and demonstrate 3M ESPE’s commitment to customers who purchase this powerful technology.

  In the February 2012 issue of Dental Products Report, we featured Michael Augins in our 10 Questions profile. Augins had more information and comments than we could fit in print, so here we offer up the full interview.  1. Sirona has the distinction of introducing CAD/CAM to dentistry more than 25 years ago. How did that come about, and what has been its impact on dentistry?

The first study using an atomic-scale imaging tool to look at the chemical structure of a sea creature’s tooth has important implications for human dentistry including the potential for creating better, stronger materials for tooth replacement and for treating flouritis.

It was a colleague who first introduced Dr. Doug Thompson to OralDNA Labs and the MyPerio tests, but for quite some time he had been looking for a treatment modality that would allow him to figure out who among his patients might be susceptible to periodontal disease. “Typically, we wait for tissue destruction to happen before we identify disease,” he explains.

Treating edentulism pursues differing objectives: from a functional standpoint, restoring reasonable mastication and phonetic ability; and from an esthetic standpoint, restoring a patient’s natural smile in unison with age and personality. The aim is to give the individual a better quality of life and greater self-esteem.