Stan Goff is a Managing Editor with MJH Life Sciences, which includes Dental Products Report, Dental Practice Management, Dental Lab Products, Modern Hygienist, and Dentist's Money Digest. He has covered the dental industry since 1999 and can be reached at sgoff@mjhlifesciences.com.
How Straumann USA's digital workflow helps Peterson Dental Lab increase its market presence
September 28th 2012Straumann® CARES® System 7.0 offers users full flexibility to choose a workflow through a single system. The validated workflow provides direct access to precise, high-quality Straumann materials and restorations through Straumann’s centralized milling facilities and pre-set design parameters.
CDA recommends mouthguards to prevent oral injuries, dental emergencies
August 10th 2012More and more people, young and old, are participating in sports these days. Student athletes are preparing for another school year, the Olympics are all over the news, and football season is just around the corner.
How to take great vertical bitewings using digital radiography
August 8th 2012Having served as a full-time dental hygienist prior to becoming a DEXIS Sales Manager, Lisa Brooks, RDH, gained extensive hands-on experience with both film and digital x-rays. In this article, Brooks will discuss the benefits of using digital radiography and DEXIS digital x-ray in particular. She also will share tips on how you can capture vertical bitewings for optimal diagnosis.
Philips Power of Innovation Challenge open to dental professionals, dental students
August 7th 2012Philips is celebrating the importance of technology by asking you-dental professionals and dental professional students-to develop an essay describing how technology and innovation have impacted the dental industry and helped to increase patient satisfaction and compliance.
Double Take: "...the efficiency of the dispensing machanism is truly a time saver."
July 24th 2012Dr. Philip Kroll was using another DUX product, the reversible hydrocolloid, when the company suggested he give ShortCut GingiBRAID a try a little more than a year ago. While quite satisfied with their existing retraction cord product, he and his staff at the California general practice were glad they made the switch.
The E4D Dentist System delivers quick, correct care
July 13th 2012Jim Tobolski had been looking for the right dentist for some time but just hadn’t “latched onto one.” That is before he started visiting Dr. Edmond Suh’s Supremia Dentistry in Wake Forest, N.C. When Jim first stepped foot inside the practice, he liked the atmosphere, the look and the friendly staff. But when he had his first crowns put in using Dr. Suh’s E4D Dentist System, he was blown away.
Minneapolis dentist, former NFL lineman Williams dies at 66
July 12th 2012Long before professional athletes’ salaries skyrocketed, it was common for even star athletes to find off-season work to earn a little extra cash. You might see baseball players bartending in the winter and football players serving as bouncers or furniture movers in the summer, while hockey and basketball players might be doubling up as insurance salesmen while not in action.
Real Time ROI: Whip Mix's Denar Mark 300 series articulators
July 12th 2012The lab Located in Lakeland, Fla., Al Fillastre and his team at Ceram-O-Arts started providing laboratory work for selected high quality dentists in 1981. Al learned the craft from his father, Dr. Alvin Fillastre, a dentist, and his mother Helga, a gifted lab technician. With an emphasis on high quality, attention to detail is evident in everything they do to deliver the best restorative dentistry possible.
One clinician's view on DENTSPLY Midwest's Quiet-air dental handpiece and Midwest Air Repair
May 14th 2012I have been a prosthodontist for more than three decades, concentrating in Oral Rehabilitation, and have done more than 50,000 units of crown and bridge. Each tooth has been prepared with a Midwest Quiet-air. A practice like mine is a litmus test of any highspeed. Probably the most severe service a handpiece can endure is cutting off old bridgework, particularly non precious prosthesis. For this you need a handpiece that can deliver high torque as well as high speed to get the job done.
Applying KaVo Dental's QUATTROCARE PLUS handpiece maintenance system in your practice
May 14th 2012The QUATTROcare PLUS handpiece maintenance system offers incomparable thoroughness, economy and ease of use. Four handpieces can be maintained in one minute with the press of a button. The system is designed to eliminate time consuming and expensive individual maintenance. The new QUATTROcare Plus offers a chuck care maintenance attachment that provides the optimum cleaning, lubrication and purging for the handpiece chuck.
Real Time ROI: IBEX Dental Technologies’ Summit Press
April 30th 2012The Lab Anderson Dental Studio is a 10 man lab located in Edina, Minn. It was started by Ken Anderson more than 50 years ago and its legacy has been preserved through his children who have continued to operate the lab with the same quality and ethical standards that their father had set many years ago. Being a small family business, owner Al Anderson respects and tries to patronize businesses such as his own. This is one of the several reasons he was so happy when he was introduced to IBEX Dental Technologies at the Chicago Midwinter Meeting in February 2011.
The Build-Up: Each lab has unique furniture requirements
April 24th 2012The right furniture for your dental laboratory is essential. It requires a big investment on the part of the lab owner or manager, but it can pay off big in terms of improved workflows and efficiency, opportunity for additional growth, and even in happier and healthier employees. That’s why it is important to allow plenty of planning and research before making such significant lab furniture investments.
Dentrix G5 practice management software works with integrated apps
April 24th 2012Dentrix G5 includes a number of new features, none bigger than the one that makes it an “open platform” that encourages software developers (including the three highlighted below) to write applications for the practice management system to share data with the new Dentrix database.
Stay at it: Expanded interview with Mary Borg and Gary Morgan, CDT
March 27th 2012SafeLink Consulting provides dental labs with the information they need to meet OSHA regulations and to prepare for FDA inspections, as well as providing consultation and advice on running the business profitably and safely. SafeLink President Mary A.