Dental Specialties: Page 809

Water Pik website adds new online community

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Water Pik has launched a new online community on WaterPik.com in an effort to educate and inform consumers.

August 9, 2010

Komet introduces diamond bur kit for ceramics

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Komet USA has introduced a new laboratory bur kit designed especially for creating shapes and textures in ceramic restorations that mimic the design of natural teeth.

August 9, 2010

Overall fitness reduces risk of perio disease

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

People who maintain a healthy weight and good physical fitness have less periodontitis, according to a new study in the Journal of Periodontology

August 9, 2010

ADHA president talks healthcare reform, midlevel providers

By Kathy Kincade

Under the leadership of its newest president, Caryn Loftis-Solie, R.D.H., the American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA) is working to help its members navigate one of the most challenging chapters in U.S. healthcare history.

August 9, 2010

Elephant gets crown to repair broken tusk

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

An elephant at a Canadian zoo recently had dental surgery to repair the tusk it broke while playing with a tire last year.

August 8, 2010

Biochip analyzer may improve oral cancer diagnostics

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

A new test for oral cancer that a dentist could perform by simply using a brush to collect cells from a patient's mouth, then analyzing the cells using an LED-based device is being tested by researchers at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

August 8, 2010

Buffalo debuts model finisher with UV disinfection

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Buffalo Dental Manufacturing has launched the UV MT wet model trimmer finishing system, which features an internal ultraviolet (UV) LED interlock sanitizing system.

August 8, 2010

Breast-feeding found to reduce ortho problems

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Babies who breast-feed exclusively are less likely to engage in thumb sucking and other "non-nutritive sucking habits," with benefits for their teeth, researchers at the University of Naples have concluded.

August 8, 2010

Dentsply fails to overturn $44M verdict

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

A federal judge has rejected Dentsply International's bid to overturn a $44 million jury verdict in a breach of contract case with Guidance Endodontics, according to Law360.

August 8, 2010

Amann Girrbach to offer content-quality certificates

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Amann Girrbach will now provide IdentAlloy and IdentCeram certificates to all dental labs purchasing its Girobond NBS base metal alloy and Ceramill ZI zirconia milling block products.

August 8, 2010

Lawsuit questions Trident claims; FDA to review 510(k) system

By Kathy Kincade

August 8, 2010

Lawsuit challenges Trident calcium phosphate claims

By Laird Harrison

For years some of the world's top dental researchers have been debating the merits of calcium phosphate products without reaching a consensus. Now a lawsuit questioning Trident Xtra Care gum's restorative claims is putting the scientific evidence on trial.

August 5, 2010

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