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A veteran of DENTSPLY Midwest, responsible for many category-creating innovations, Chief Innovation Engineer Gene Novak has split his time between Manufacturing and R&D during his 30-year tenure. Gene has seen the Midwest brand change ownership many times, while staying loyal to the principles of innovation, quality, reliability and durability laid out by founder Martin Staunt.

Culver City, CA, July 22, 2010 – Today, Discus Dental LLC announced it has donated approximately $10,000 in oral hygiene products to Operation Gratitude, an organization that sends care packages to members of the U.S. Armed Forces overseas.  By collecting donations from attendees at recent tradeshows (AAE, AACD and CDA), and dedicating a percentage of all show sales to this effort, Discus has sent hundreds of units of BreathRx™ Oral Hygiene Products to Operation Gratitude.

Dentist Bia Kunze had a simple idea: If you can't make it to the dentist, the dentist will come to you. Kunze is a mobile dentist in Brazil, treating house or hospital-bound patients in and around the city of Curitiba. To manage her practice on the go, she uses Bento for iPhone.

The time has come to sell your dental practice. Your revenues and profits are at their peak. Your overhead is under control and your practice looks ready for listing. You have worked extremely hard for many years to set the stage for your transition. In your opinion, you have all of the pieces in place for a successful sale at the highest and best sale price and terms and conditions of settlement. What next?

01 Eleven years ago, Smile Reminder was the first company to introduce patient messaging. Where did the idea come from? Jim Higgins, our company founder, was working on a mobile messaging platform for the banking industry when he was approached by a dentist who wanted some help with last minute appointment reminders in the hopes of reducing his no-show rate. After some initial testing and success, Smile Reminder was born.

One of the unique things about Whip Mix is your commitment to Lean Manufacturing Initiatives. What first prompted the interest and how have the company benefitted?

With so much technology out there, which practice systems get first dibs? I recommend approaching your technology integration efforts as a puzzle, with each system acting as a piece that needs to fit into an overall strategy so that, when the puzzle is complete-and individual products selected-it reflects the right picture for your practice. The systems to evaluate are:

Changes in Reporting S Corporation Earnings It may have been too good to last. Even though there were many pitfalls regarding the S corporation and how earnings were reported after the dentist’s W-2 compensation, many still used that type of business entity because of the savings in payroll taxes not charged to the dividend portion of the S corporation’s earnings that flowed through to the owners.

In this Article we tackle the second key to a successful website, namely, attracting the visitor. Before your website can encourage patients to visit your office, they first must find your website. For this to happen, you need to position yourself so that, when people and businesses in your community are searching for dental care, it's your website, or a page within your site, that they find. Access Paths

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January 2010 | Dental Lab ProductsBench mastery: Kreyer on removables It’s all in the selectionThe needs and expectations placed on today’s removable prosthetic laboratory have changed

5/1/2010 MDI One Day Seminar Phoenix, Arizona Dr. Raymond Choi

February 5, 2010 | dentalproductsreport.comNewsAshtel Dental, 7 Day Dental donate 20,000 toothbrushes to Haiti The donation was given to the Giving Children Hope Foundation l

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.

October 2010 | Dental Products Report Clinical 360°: tech brief Applying Swerv³in your practice Compliled by Richard PalmerInformation provided by Hu-Friedy Mfg. Co.

Working in a cramped space in a dentist’s office no larger than a closet is how Robert Renstrom got his start in the dental industry. That job gave him the experience needed to start Renstrom Dental Studio Inc., which is still going strong and is now owned by his sons, Randy and Rick Renstrom.

    Photo: Getty Images/B2M Productions Your patients have a lot on their minds.   Some may have lost their jobs, while others who are still employed fear they’ll be standing in that unemployment line any day now. They’re stressed out about money and the struggling economy, and that could be hurting their dental health.

Louisiana State University (LSU) hosted Dr. Wolfgang Kirchner, CTO of Laserdenta and John Just CDT, the Director of Technical Services for Laserdenta Inc. located in Brea, Calif.  Dr.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recalled all SoftLase Pro Dental Lasers manufactured by Pleasant Hill, CA-based Zap Lasers LLC. All 1,375 SoftLase Lasers in commerce require several upgrades stemming from problems associated with a missing remote interlock connector, emission delay, user guide labels and locations, and calibration procedures and schedule.

Objet Geometries, the innovation leader in 3D printing, together with 3Shape A/S, a global leader in 3D scanners and CAD/CAM software solutions for the Dental Industry, today announced the availability of a jointly developed solution that integrates with the 3Shape Dental System(TM) 2010, enabling its 3D restoration designs to be produced on the Objet Eden line of 3D P

Dr. Dan Greenstein has been making those who work in saliva laugh since 1989. The GP from Boca Raton, FL saw his stand-up career take off after gaining exposure from television's America's Funniest People. "I was a winner on America's Funniest People in 1991, which led to a lot of local publicity in the local newspapers, including the Miami Herald," explains Greenstein.

Ronald Dubner, PhD, DDS, of the University of Maryland School of Dentistry was honored today with the 2012 Distinguished Scientist Award by the American Association for Dental Research (AADR).

January 2010 | Dental Products Report Products in practice Talk should be cheap Online communication is an economical way to reach out to your patients and bring extra money into your practice. by Renee Knight Photo: Asia Images Group/Getty Images

Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the largest distributor of health care products and services to office-based practitioners, today announced the promotion of Michael Porro to Director of CAD/CAM Sales for Henry Schein Dental.

EFFINGHAM, Ill., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Heartland Dental Care, Inc. has joined the global effort to help those affected by the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti by donating $40,500 to the American Red Cross Haitian Relief and Development Fund. For every ViziLite® Oral Cancer Screening kit sold in its dental offices from Jan. 18 through Feb. 12, the company donated $10 to the Fund. Throughout the month, the dental teams completed 4,050 ViziLite® exams to raise a total of $40,500 for the earthquake victims.

The science behind Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT ) sounds complicated. Technology jargon is filled with words such as resolution, signal-to-noise ratio, collimation and voxel sizes.

Over the past few years, using computers seems to have become a much more hands-on experience. From desktops to laptops to tablets and smartphones, touchscreen interfaces are popping up everywhere and offering us innovative and intuitive new ways to control our machines. With tapping, dragging, swiping, pinching and typing on virtual keyboards all quickly becoming familiar, the door is now open for novel approaches to computer design such as Toshiba’s laptop like no other, the libretto W100. Concept in action

Dental professionals, out of necessity, must pay close attention to detail. It is surprising, then, to learn how little attention is paid to monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of dentistry marketing tactics.

What is a blog, and why should a dentist care? “Blog” is short for “blind frog,” and if you believe that, I have some oceanfront Internet real estate that you’re going to love. Seriously, folks, “blog” is a word that Peter Merholtz created in 1999 from Jorn Berger’s term “weblog,” coined two years earlier. By definition, a blog is an online journal that can contain text, videos, and audio.

KENNEBUNK, Maine, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- After tallying nearly 100,000 consumer votes from around the country, Tom's of Maine announced today the five non-profit organizations that will each receive new volunteer support and $20,000 through its annual "50 States for Good" initiative. The program, designed to spotlight local nonprofit projects and volunteer needs, drew submissions from all 50 states.