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Strong luting cement, falvored fluoride varnish, universal cleaning paste and laser safety glasses are what's new in the weekly dental products roundup for the week of Sept. 10, 2012. 

Weekly New dental products roundup – September 10, 2012

A Q&A with MDT founders Dr. Robert Gregg, Dr. Delwin McCarthy about the LANAP Protocol, PerioLase MVP-7 digital dental laser. 

Millennium Dental Technologies founders discuss the LANAP protocol, PerioLase MVP-7 digital dental laser

On the event of Sirona Dental Systems' launch of CEREC Omnicam, we look at technologies that take dental care to the next level. The criteria for the list is simple:  Does this product make clinical care better - more predictable, more efficient, more comfortable? Are you and your patients better off for incorporating this technology into the practice?

Top 5 Game-Changing Dental Technologies

There is no group of products quite like the “Best of Class” honorees, in large part because it would be almost impossible to recreate the process by which they were selected.

Why 5 of the Pride Institute "Best of Class" Technology Award Winners Stand Out

Designed to enable dental labs to manufacture fixed and removable metal frameworks, the PXS dental system laser sintering  machine gets the job done cost effectively and efficiently. Using laser sintering technology to create non-precious copings and frameworks from metal powder, the system produces high quality finished products with a very high degree of accuracy while significantly reducing build time.

Tech Brief: AMT Inc.'s PXS dental system is the latest laser sintering option

Renee Knight is a freelance writer and editor who's been covering the dental industry for 15 years. 

You’ve been thinking about adding new technologies to your practice, maybe a laser or chairside CAD/CAM, but you just haven’t made the move. You like the idea of it, but you’re just not sure it’s worth the investment.

What it takes to steal a patient

You don’t want to be the first. While there are no documented cases of a clinician acquiring a disease from laser plume, the possibility is there. That’s why it’s so important for you to wear the proper mask when using a laser.

Is your laser making you sick?

Steve Kokal joins Millennium Dental Technologies as VP of Sales and Marketing.

Millennium Dental Technologies has a new VP of Sales and Marketing

In the field of laser dentistry, patients and dentists are seeing benefits associated with the advancements in laser technology. Soft-tissue lasers cause far less patient discomfort with the ability to achieve simultaneous cutting and coagulation. The Food and Drug Administration has cleared the use of dental lasers in more than 20 dental procedures.

5 ways dental lasers are used to treat patients

 In restorative dentistry, close attention must be paid not only to the restoration, but to the area surrounding the restoration as well. This type of thinking should be applied to provide the esthetics and functionality the patient seeks. Therefore, to provide the best in patient comfort and minimally invasive procedures, practitioners must maintain familiarity with the newest instruments and techniques available through innovation and product development.

Laser Dentistry