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Zest Anchors now part of the Jordan Company

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The Jordan Company announced that its Resolute Fund II has acquired 100% of the assets and business of Zest Anchors, a family-owned and operated manufacturer of dental attachments.

January 11, 2010

Study finds weaker margins with self-etch

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Restorations placed with etch-and-rinse adhesives had tighter margins than restorations placed with single-bottle self-etch adhesives in a study published online January 5 in Clinical Oral Investigations.

January 11, 2010

CR newsletter: Disinfect your preparations

By Laird Harrison

Before bandaging a wound, you apply an antibiotic ointment. Before probing a tooth, you sterilize your explorer. So should you also disinfect a tooth before placing the restoration? Rella Christensen, R.D.H., Ph.D., says yes.

January 10, 2010

New Save-A-Tooth patent enhances product design

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Phoenix Lazerus, the makers of Save-A-Tooth, has been granted a U.S. patent for an enhanced method of saving and storing knocked-out teeth.

January 7, 2010

Survey: Komet the fastest growing diamond brand

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

For the second straight year, Komet is the fastest growing diamond brand in the U.S. dental rotary market, according to Strategic Dental Marketing's Dental Products Trial, Awareness, and Penetration Study for the first half of 2009.

January 6, 2010

Modern Plastics introduces implantable material

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Modern Plastics has launched an implantable medical-grade material, MediPEEK-IM (polyetheretherketone), a high-performance semicrystalline thermoplastic designed for long-term body contact.

January 6, 2010

Sirona introduces InEos Blue desktop scanner

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Sirona has launched the InEos Blue 3D desktop scanner for dental technicians.

January 5, 2010

Christensen picks best restorative products

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

In its most recent issue, Gordon J. Christensen Clinicians Report (CR) issued its annual list of best materials, devices, and techniques evaluated over the past year. Included were several restorative products to which the newsletter gave its check mark, indicating a best product from a comparison done by the CR researchers during 2009.

January 5, 2010

Kerr launches self-adhering flowable composite

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Kerr Dental has introduced its first self-adhering flowable composite, Vertise Flow.

January 3, 2010

Cone-beam CT better for detecting vertical root fractures

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

High-resolution cone-beam CT images are superior to intraoral charge-coupled device (CCD) images in detecting vertical root fractures, according to a study.

December 29, 2009

Man sues dentist over root canal

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

A Chicago man is suing his dentist for allegedly performing an unnecessary root canal and tooth extraction.

December 29, 2009

Australian dentist sued for doing too many root canals

By Donna Domino

An Australian dentist who left a patient a "dental cripple" after performing unnecessary root canals on all 28 of the man's teeth has been fined $345,000 ($309,000 U.S.) and may lose his license.

December 28, 2009

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