IDS 2025 Returns March 25-29, 2025, in Germany

IDS 2025 Returns March 25-29, 2025, in Germany

Expecting another big event in 2025, organizers of the International Dental Show (IDS) 2025 held a media breakfast Monday morning at the Greater New York Dental Meeting.

Hosted jointly by Koelnmesse and VDDI (Association of the German Dental Manufacturers), the press meeting shared updates with members of the media and dental industry officials on the next IDS, which will take place March 25-29, 2025, in Cologne, Germany.

Dr. Markus HeibachandMarkus Osterkicked off the morning bysharing success stories of previous IDS conferences, which take place every other year and draw attendees and exhibitors from across the globe.

IDS 2023 featured 1,788 exhibitors from 60 countries and 120,000 visitors from 162 countries.

“I believe it is vital that dental innovations are available worldwide,” Dr Heibach says.

Online registration opened early this year to help attendees with visa processing and travel arrangements. Once again, attendees who purchase tickets to IDS will be provided public transportation around Cologne.

Registration information can be found by clicking here.

Event organizers say the innovative strength of the dental industry is unabated. The rapid progress in research and development and the international competition are the drivers of the tireless product development. The companies of the dental industry are proving to be equally inventive and application-oriented.

Markus Oster (left) Dr. Markus Heibachtalk about IDS 2025 at a press breakfast in New York City on Sunday at the GNYDM. | Image Credit: Stan Goff

Below, IDS shared some examples designed to highlight how the manufacturers of dental medicine technology are bringing dentists, dental technicians and their teams forward.

Practices can rely on stronger support for caries diagnosis:

• The aggregation of different imaging techniques such as x-rays, fluorescence and transillumination ensures a good overall picture.
• The x-ray diagnosis occurs fully-automatically supported by artificial intelligence and is thus at the disposal of the dentist for the medical evaluation—enabling the improved detection of initial caries lesions.
• The magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) has been introduced as a further digital imaging technology—for the improved detection of secondary and occult caries.

MRT opens further opportunities:

• In the field of periodontal diagnostics, this already allows the detection of bone loss in its early stages.
• The MRT can be combined with intraoral scans, 3D x-rays and a computer tomography in implantology to enable successful backward-planning.

Furthermore, there are new developments in all sections of the practice:

• In the fields of periodontology and professional prophylaxis innovative multifunctional systems with an ultrasonic handpiece and a powder jet handpiece offer the team user-friendly operation and the patients a particularly pleasant therapy.
• More and more esthetic, tooth-colored materials are available for filling therapies, such as nanohybrid ormocers, while new self-adhesive composites that bond without the use of separate adhesives are eagerly awaited.
• In the field of endodontics, digital assistance systems reduce the risk of file breakage. Thanks to sensor-less control, the motor reacts immediately and a continual electronic length determination during the active processing helps keep the file always on the desired target.

At the same time, innovative trends are enriching the dental laboratory, and 3D printing and additive production continue to have larger impacts. IDS 2025 plans to provide something for the entire dental industry.

Other areas to be addressed include the aggregation of dental data in safe cloud systems that is making additional services accessible and depending on the structure promotes:

• predictive maintenance of the dental equipment
• increased patient satisfaction
• climate-friendly operation
• an improved economic balance
• safe and convenient data transmission between the laboratories, clinics and practices–for a seamless digital workflow regardless of the location and software licenses.

Furthermore, the industry is observing a larger spectrum of dental chairs from the pure chair with peripheral devices simply laid out in front through to strongly integrated units, as well as a concerted effort for more sustainability.

To what extent the current innovations will change the important framework conditions for running a dental practice or laboratory will ensue from the many expert discussions held at the 41st IDS, states organizers of the trade show.

For more information, you can reach out to Markus Majerus, public and media relations manager, at m.majerus@koelnmesse.de or visit the website www.koelnmesse.com.