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3Shape's Dental System offers Dentsply CAD design

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

3Shape's Dental System is now able to design two-piece customized abutments using Dentsply Friadent premanufactured titanium bases.

July 4, 2012

Canadian city diverts $750K from fluoridation to kids' care

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The city of Calgary, Alberta, has earmarked $750,000 saved from discontinuing its water fluoridation program for oral health programs targeting children from poor families, according to a story in the Calgary Herald.

July 4, 2012

3M ESPE introduces Lava Ultimate restorative

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

3M ESPE is now offering Lava Ultimate, part of a new class of CAD/CAM restorative materials based on the company's nanotechnology.

July 1, 2012

Roydent releases new bite registration materials

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Roydent Dental Products has launched two new bite registration materials: Futar D Fast and Futar Scan.

July 1, 2012

Do oxalates reduce dentin hypersensitivity?

By Rob Goszkowski

A systematic review published last year in the Journal of Dental Research found little evidence to support the use of oxalates for treating dentin hypersensitivity. Now a critical summary by the ADA Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry's review council lends further support to these findings.

July 1, 2012

Oral Health America on pace to seal 2M teeth by 2012

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

After meeting its goal to seal 1 million teeth by 2010, Oral Health America (OHA) recommitted to America's Promise Alliance to seal 2 million teeth for more than 500,000 at-risk children by 2020.

June 27, 2012

Fluoride delivery gets due attention at IADR

By Rob Goszkowski

Three studies focusing on the effectiveness of fluoride delivered in several different ways, from milk to dentifrice and sealants, were presented at the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) meeting last week in Brazil.

June 27, 2012

Legislation addresses U.S. drug shortage issues

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA) is applauding U.S. Congress' passage of the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (S. 3187), which is designed to help avoid prescription drug shortages and facilitate the recall of faulty medical devices.

June 26, 2012

Report: Lack of preventive dental coverage costs Fla. big

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

A report by the Florida Public Health Institute has revealed that in 2010 there were 115,000 visits to the emergency room for dental conditions that were preventable at a cost of $88 million, Health News Florida reported.

June 26, 2012

Wash. town council tires of antifluoride activists

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The city council of Everett, WA, has grown weary of antifluoride activists lobbying to end water fluoridation in the area, according to an articl in the Herald.

June 26, 2012

Calif. dentist pleads no contest in disabled son's death

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

A Coalinga, CA, dentist whose developmentally disabled son died after the dentist gave him Valium and morphine before treating an abscessed tooth will not serve any prison time, according to a report by ABC 30 News.

June 26, 2012

AMT offers financing for laser sintering machines

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Additive Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) is now offering flexible financing options on PXS Dental and PXM Dental laser sintering machines.

June 25, 2012

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