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March 21, 2012

Tablet PCs are nothing new. Besides popping up in science fiction movies for decades, the real things have existed in one form or another for quite some time. So why then was the entire tech world and much of the media so excitedly agog a few weeks back when Apple unveiled its first tablet, the iPad?

March 21, 2012

With laptops, notebooks, and netbooks, not to mention smartphones, tablets, and cloud computing, computer portability has never been more accessible. But just because there are many ways to make a computer portable, doesn’t mean managing this portability is simple. If, like many people, you have a powerful desktop at the heart of your computing set up, using a smaller machine while traveling can make data management a nightmare.

March 21, 2012

Olivier Brix, MDT, will be presenting his two-day "Art of Esthetics and Ceramics Master Course" in June on the 25th and 26th at the Ivoclar Vivadent educational facility in Sarasota, Fla. and again on June 28th and 29th at Ivoclar's educational facility in Amherst, NY.

March 21, 2012

Primotec will sponsor a pair of courses in April and May designed to help technicians improve their efficiency and accuracy. The "Advanced Phaser Welding Course" will be held in Los Angeles May 29 and will cover everything from the basics of how to properly set up the phaser to how to weld partials, crowns and bridges, and implants quickly and easily without distortion.

March 21, 2012

Even as more and more intraoral digital impression capture systems come onto the marketplace, for labs working with dentists who prefer to follow the traditional tray-based route of impression capture yet want to eliminate models from there workflow procedures, there is an increasing number of options for scanning the tray impression from the dentist directly into a CAD system using a benchtop scanner.

March 21, 2012

The rising cost of gold and other precious metals combined with the relatively low profile of dental offices and laboratories has put them on the radar of crafty theives who see an easy target. The first month of 2010 witnessed at least 53 burglaries of West Coast dental laboratories and dental practices for their inventory of gold and platinum alloys or for the precious metal contained in metal-based cracked or chipped gold crowns that dentists removed from patients.

March 21, 2012

The National Board for Certification in Dental Laboratory Technology is pleased to announce Mr. Norbert Duepner, Master CDT, as the 2010 CDT of the year. The CDT award recognizes an individual Certified Dental Technician who has made contributions to his/her peers and the dental laboratory profession and has gone above and beyond the call of duty.

March 21, 2012

Long-time Vident employee Gil Villavecer has been recently promoted to Vice President, Business Development. In his new role, Villavecer will be responsible for building relationships and negotiating agreements with some of the nation’s major lab and dental practice groups.

March 21, 2012

The National Board for Certification in Dental Laboratory Technology (NBC) announces the full launching of the home-based Modularization Program.

March 21, 2012

Thermoplastic Comfort System, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of their new Web site. The site includes information for patients from FAQs to How to Care for TCS appliances. For dentists we feature before and after cases, insertion and adjustment techniques, and other useful information. And finally, a full product catalog for the laboratory including You-Tube clips with techniques on many of the processes. An authorized dealer locator is also included.

March 21, 2012

Nobel Biocare announced today that it has signed a preferred partnership agreement with Germany-based VITA Zahnfabrik, a global market leader in restorative and prosthetic materials for dentists and dental technicians.

March 21, 2012

On March 12, 2010 TCS will offer a hands-on TCS Unbreakable workshop at their training facility in Signal Hill, Calif. The four-hour course presents an overview of the tcs® Unbreakable fabrication process. Each participant receives an injected case to finish and polish using tcs® polishing technique and can take it home.

March 21, 2012

Louisiana State University (LSU) hosted Dr. Wolfgang Kirchner, CTO of Laserdenta and John Just CDT, the Director of Technical Services for Laserdenta Inc. located in Brea, Calif.  Dr.