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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

DrBicuspid.com Restoratives Insider

By Laird Harrison

February 1, 2010

Restoratives Special Feature/Hot Topic -

January 31, 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

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

Woman sues over dental bur left in sinus 'for months'

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

A Florida woman is suing an oral surgeon after a bur that went missing during an extraction was left lodged in her right maxillary sinus for nearly a year, according to a story in the St. Petersburg Times.

January 25, 2010

Oragenics offers probiotic chew for kids

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Oragenics has launched EvoraKids, the first probiotic-based, all-natural oral care chewable created to promote oral health for children 3-10 years old. EvoraKids includes Oragenics' patent-pending ProBiora3 technology, specifically formulated for children to help maintain healthy teeth.

January 24, 2010

Will plasma jets 'replace' the handpiece?

By Laird Harrison

Physicists have been playing around with low-temperature plasma jets, a technology akin to a welder's arc, for over a decade. A recent study in which the jets were used in dentistry has spurred some publications to report that the technology will soon "replace the dentist's drill."

January 24, 2010

Patterson named sole U.S. distributor for ProDrive

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Effective January 20, Patterson Dental became the sole national distributor of the ProDrive System, a handpiece upgrade, ProDrive Systems announced. Patterson already has an exclusive agreement to distribute ProDrive products in Canada.

January 20, 2010

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