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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

Dentsply rehearing request denied in Cavitron suit

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The judge in a California lawsuit alleging that Cavitron is unsafe for open surgical procedures has denied a request by Dentsply, the maker of the ultrasonic scaler, to rehear the company's request that he dismiss the case.

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

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

Lawsuits question Cavitron safety

By Laird Harrison

A California appeals court has allowed a class-action lawsuit against Dentsply International that alleges dentists who purchased the company's popular Cavitron ultrasonic scaler were harmed because the device is hazardous for procedures that involve open surgery. Similar lawsuits are pending in two other U.S. courts.

January 17, 2010

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