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Oxidized implants found better for immediate load
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Immediate loading of implant-supported mandibular overdentures was more successful when the implants had oxidized surfaces than when they had machined surfaces in a study reported in the International Journal of Prosthodontics.
January 20, 2010
AMD Lasers introduces Picasso Lite
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
AMD Lasers is now offering the Picasso Lite soft-tissue dental laser. It is designed to cut and coagulate tissue with reduced trauma, bleeding, and necrosis of tissue in soft-tissue surgery, including troughing, gingivectomies, frenectomies, exposing implants/teeth/ortho brackets, and treating aphthous ulcers and herpetic lesions.
January 17, 2010
Komet supports breast cancer research
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Komet USA is supporting breast cancer research in the U.S. by selling new pink aluminum bur blocks with a ribbon laser-etched on the lid in 2010. For each sale, Komet will donate 10% of the retail price to fund breast cancer research.
January 13, 2010
Nobel Biocare partners with Ivoclar on CAD/CAM materials
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Nobel Biocare is partnering with Ivoclar Vivadent to expand its line of restorative and prosthetic products. Ivoclar Vivadent will supply Nobel Biocare with ceramic and acrylic materials that the company will use to launch "better veneering solutions, cost-effective treatment options, and complete solutions for edentulous indications."
January 13, 2010
Water fluoridation debate heats up in Louisiana town
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Opponents of water fluoridation in Walker, LA, are calling on the Board of Aldermen to reconsider a decision to inject fluoride into the town water supply.
January 12, 2010
Delcam updates CAD/CAM software
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Delcam has released Delcam Dental 2010 SP2, which enhances previous versions of the program used by laboratories for CAD/CAM production of restorations.
January 11, 2010
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
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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
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