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Icon: Treatment for Incipient Caries and White Spots
Icon has a new approach to the treatment of incipient caries with a breakthrough micro-invasive technology that fills and reinforces demineralized enamel without drilling or anesthesia.
>>Read More and Comment Griptab Veneer and Crown Delivery System
The Griptab Veneer and Crown Delivery System organizes and streamlines multiple restoration cases. It eliminates the risk of error and saves time.
>>Read More and Comment Impregum Soft Polyether Tray Impression Material: Better than any VPS?
Impregum Soft Polyether tray impression material provides dental professionals with the benefits of a polyether and the convenient dispensing style of a vinyl polysiloxane (VPS).
>>Read More and Comment Flexi-Overdenture: Dentures In A Snap!
Additionally, you get a better, more secure fit at the area where the canal widens, because the Flexi-Overdenture post has a second tier that widens at the same point. This makes Flexi-Overdenture the most retentive overdenture around.
>>Read More and Comment FenderMate: A Revolutionary One-Piece Wedge and Matrix Application
Choosing a matrix technique for normal sized Class II preparation often ends up with a sectional matrix for a good result. Most sectional matrix systems are applied starting with the placing of the matrix which is secured with a wedge of suitable size.
>>Read More and Comment Clearfil SE Bond: Zero Post Operative Pain?
I love Clearfil SE Bond [Kuraray]. Gordon Christensen recommended this and told the audience that it would result in zero post-operative pain
>>Read More and Comment Composi-Tight 3D: Worth the Expense to Buy This New Generation of Rings?
I have been using the Garrison rings very successfully. They are dependable, durable and can easily be tightened when they start wearing out. They have come out with a new generation of rings – the Composi-Tight 3D.
>>Read More and Comment No-Prep Veneers: Have You Done These Successfully?
Can you really do a no-prep veneer? Some of my patients have seen advertisements for Lumineers and they do not want their teeth prepared and do not want injections. What are the rest of you doing?
>>Read More and Comment Best Incisal Wrap Preparation?
Could somebody please describe the best incisal-wrap preparation? I have been to three courses and been told at each course that one particular design is the best.
>>Read More and Comment Breeze Self-Adhesive Resin Cement
Any thoughts on Breeze, a new Self-Adhesive Resin Cement from Pentron?
>>Read More and Comment Stratos Articulator: A Better Choice?
I have taken some courses in using new kinds of articulators like the Stratos favored by the Las Vegas Institute. One of its features is that you do not need to take a facebow because you use the hamular notches and the incisive papilla for orientation of the maxillary cast.
>>Read More and Comment PhysioStar NFC: Better than Conventional Acrylic Dentures?
PhysioStar NFC has recently come out with a new kind of denture tooth made partly out of polyethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and composite.
>>Read More and Comment Vitallium Plus: How is This Alloy Different?
There is a new removable partial denture alloy from DENTSPLY called Vitallium Plus. Does anybody know how this is any different from plain old vitallium?
>>Read More and Comment SmartCem2 : The Ideal Cement?
DENTSPLY has recently come out with SmartCem2 which is supposed to be better than the original SmartCem.
>>Read More and Comment Carbides for Crown Preps
There are a number of carbides now being pushed for doing crown preps, but some don’t seem to work as well as they are supposed to.
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