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Komet launches bur block for lab techs
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Komet USA has introduced a new bur block for laboratory technicians that enables them to more easily organize and arrange their rotary instruments, according to the company. The block comes with a nonslip base and can hold up to 50 rotary instruments with handpiece shank.
February 4, 2010
AAOMR sports a new look
By Kathy Kincade
Under the tutelage of its newest president, Dr. Allan Farman, the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (AAOMR) is working to gain a higher profile with the public and within dentistry itself.
February 4, 2010
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NovaBone relocates to meet growing demand
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
NovaBone Products has relocated its operations division to expanded and upgraded facilities to meet increasing demands for its bioengineered bone graft substitutes, the company announced.
February 3, 2010
Astra Tech makes Atlantis abutments for NobelActive
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Astra Tech is now making Atlantis abutments for the NobelActive NP 3.5 and RP 4.3, 5.0 implants for North American customers. Astra Tech provides patient-specific abutments in a choice of four material options: titanium, gold-shaded titanium, white zirconia, and shaded zirconia.
February 2, 2010
New coating improves implant bond with bone
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a "smart coating" that helps dental and other surgical implants bond more closely with bone and ward off infection. When patients have hip, knee, or dental replacement surgery, they run the risk of their bodies rejecting the implant. But the new coating mitigates that risk by fostering bone growth into the implant. T
February 2, 2010
Implantable 'tooth chip' holds personal health records
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Kevin Brunski, D.D.S., hopes to one day see every person in the U.S. wearing his invention: an ID chip, containing their entire medical history, that is implanted in a tooth. The Crown Point, IN, dentist gave up his nearly 20-year practice two years ago to devote his time to marketing the patent-pending I-Denti-Fied.
February 1, 2010
Zimmer dental sales down in 2009
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Zimmer Holdings, which makes dental implants and a variety of medical products, reported a year-over-year decline in net dental sales for 2009. For the fourth quarter (end-December 31), the company reported $57 million in net sales of dental products, the same as in the fourth quarter of 2008, but a 4% decline in constant currency.
February 1, 2010
Sargenti paste still widely used despite controversy
By Donna Domino
The FDA, ADA, and AAE do not condone it, nor do U.S. dental schools. Dozens of lawsuits have been filed by patients claiming permanent jaw damage and other debilitating side effects following its use. So why do dentists continue to use Sargenti paste for endodontic obturation?
February 1, 2010
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DrBicuspid.com Restoratives Insider
By Laird Harrison
February 1, 2010
Restoratives Special Feature/Hot Topic -
January 31, 2010
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CDA journal showcases cone-beam CT pros and cons
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Cone-beam CT gets the royal treatment in a series of articles published in the January 2010 Journal of the California Dental Association. Having been used in oral and maxillofacial imaging for more than a decade, cone-beam CT is gaining ground in clinical use, with new applications ranging from diagnosing dental disease to evaluating the temporomandibular joint and enhancing maxillofacial pathology.
January 28, 2010
AAE pained by Obama's root canal remark
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
As popular as a what? The American Association of Endodontists (AAE) is tired of hearing its raison d'être used as the symbol for everything painful. Following U.S. President Barack Obama's State of the Union address January 27, the AAE put the president on notice that he should not have compared the government's bailout of failing banks to root canal therapy.
January 28, 2010
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