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The line's silver nanoparticles are designed to carry calcium and Xylitol to the tooth.

Elementa Hygiene Line Formulated with Silver Nanoparticles

These 5 tips will help your patients’ smiles stay healthy despite sugary temptations this Easter.

5 Tips to Help Your Patients Deal With Potential Easter Candy Sugar Problems

A team of researchers have discovered the reason why teeth may be sensitive to the cold by looking at the molecular and cellular levels. 

Researchers Pinpoint Why Teeth are Sensitive to the Cold

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.  

Dr. Lou Graham shares his experience using GreenMark Biomedical’s LumiCare™ Caries Detection Rinse which recently won a Cellerant Best of Class Technology Award.

BOC Winners in Practice: GreenMark Biomedical’s LumiCare™ Caries Detection Rinse

SDI’s Riva Star Silver Diamine Fluoride Desensitizer minimizes the risk of staining, reduces aerosols, and improves GIC bond strengths.

Solve My Problem: New SDF brings strength with less stains, aerosols 

GreenMark Biomedical Founder and CEO Steven Bloembergen, PhD explains the novel caries detection technology his company created and how it can be used to easily identify dental caries using a curing light likely already in the dental practice.

Dental Product Presentation: LumiCare from GreenMark Biomedical

Lynne Slim is an award-winning dental author who has published extensively in dental/dental hygiene journals including 

Journal of the Western Society of Periodontology

. She was the periodontal columnist for RDH magazine for about 17 years and is now a columnist for 

 and is a member of their advisory board. In 2003, Lynne founded Perio C Dent, a dental practice management company that specializes in the incorporation of non-surgical periodontal therapy into the hygiene department of the general dental practice.

As a key opinion leader in the dental industry, Lynne is frequently asked to review new products and write product reviews. She participates in product development and is consulted about consumer/RDH product awareness. Lynne received the Philips Oral Healthcare “Mentor of Distinction” award at the 2012 ADHA Annual Session.

Caries Management by Risk Assessment (CAMBRA) has been around since it was introduced in early 2001. Even though the caries paradigm shifted from a surgical to a medical approach, some practitioners are still spitting out the same tired recommendations.

Dental Caries Etiology and Personal Oral Hygiene: Let’s Query the Truth Fairy

Dr. Lou Shuman is the CEO of Cellerant Consulting Group, dentistry’s leading corporate incubator and accelerator; a venturer-in-residence at Harvard’s i-Lab; the chairman of the technology advisory board at WEO Media; a long-time contributor to Dental Products Report; and the founder and creator of the Cellerant Best of Class Technology Awards.

Dr. Wendy Bloembergen is an internist and nephrologist who is pursuing her entrepreneurial interests after spending a number of years raising her family. She received her MD from the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, and her internal medicine and nephrology fellowships at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario and University of Western Ontario. She subsequently completed a research fellowship at the University of Michigan Medical School and an MS in clinical research design and statistical analysis at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters, and has consulted for a venture capital firm as a medical analyst. 

Dr. Steven Bloembergen founded GreenMark Biomedical in Michigan in 2016, with a vision to deliver health based benefits to society through bio-based targeting technologies. He has 30 years of leadership experience in the development and commercialization of biomaterials. In 2012, Dr. Bloembergen received the Ernst and Young “2012 Entrepreneur of the Year Award”. He received his Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, and is the inventor of over 25 patent families related to biomaterials. 

Using nanotechnology, GreenMark Biomedical is developing a non-invasive approach to diagnosing and treating active, incipient carious lesions.

Bringing early-stage carious lesions to light

A new Icon-Etch Refill etching gel is now available in the U.S.

DMG expands its caries infiltration product line

USC’s Ostrow School of Dentistry adds this noninvasive early caries infiltration to its curriculum.