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Study finds accelerated bone loss around implants
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Patients with implants lose bone at an accelerating rate, according to a study conducted at the University of Gothenburg. The findings show how important it is to detect and treat bone loss around implants at an early stage.
February 7, 2010
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
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
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
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January 31, 2010
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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
Photodynamic therapy effective on oral cancer
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) appears to be a useful modality for treating early-stage cancer of the mouth or oropharynx, according to a study published in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. Researchers from the Henry Ford Health System conducted a retrospective study of 30 patients with squamous cell carcinoma in the mouth or oropharynx.
January 28, 2010
FDA issues recall of SoftLase Pro lasers
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The U.S. FDA has issued a Class 2 recall of Zap Lasers' SoftLase Pro family of lasers, saying that the lasers are in need of compliance upgrades due to "lack of a remote interlock connector, an emission delay, user guide labels and locations, and calibration procedures."
January 26, 2010
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