 from Coltene combines the various features of the Suvi® Premier and the Air Polisher into one versatile appliance that can be used for a wide range of ultrasonic and polishing treatments.

Dental Hygienist Shirley Gutkowski worked with Coltene for roughly two years on the development on the 

Working with Coltene, Gutkowski explains that the BioSonic® Suvi® Elite Plus was truly designed with the dental hygienist in mind.

“The No. 1 thing is that [Coltene] built this unit based on input from dental hygienists,” Gutkowski says. “The handpieces are thick and easily ergonomic, the sleeves come off … you can swap out the tips if you need to and there are over 60 different tips on the scaler side.”

She adds that the light on the working end is the “most outstanding” feature of the product.

“It really allows you to see what you’re doing and shows you where you’ve been.”

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The BioSonic® Suvi® Elite Plus from Coltene combines the various features of the Suvi® Premier and the Air Polisher into one versatile appliance that can be used for a wide range of ultrasonic and polishing treatments.

How Coltene’s BioSonic® Suvi® Elite Plus was designed with hygienists in mind [VIDEO]

We’ve all been there … talking to a person whose breath smells like they just finished off a buffet straight out of the trash can. Call it halitosis or bad breath or whatever you like, but it’s just plain nasty.

Bad breath seems to be an epidemic of times. So where in the United States are people most curious (or worried) about the odor coming out of their mouths? We went straight to Google to find out.

Google has become such a big part of our culture that it’s now a verb in many of our vocabularies. Hey, I know I’ve often said, “Hang on, let me Google that” as I pull out my iPhone. Your patients are no different.

For every search term out there, Google using a ranking system of 0-100 to see exactly how “hot” a search term is. According to Google, “The numbers on the graph reflect how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. They don't represent absolute search volume numbers, because the data is normalized and presented on a scale from 0-100. Each point on the graph is divided by the highest point, or 100. When we don't have enough data, 0 is shown.”

Looking specifically at the search term “bad breath”

As a historical background, we examined data dating back to January of 2004. The biggest month for searches was January of 2012 and 2013 when the term “bad breath” reached 96. The lowest month for “bad breath” searches was June 2006 when it plummeted to 39.

It’s been an interesting cycle for “bad breath” searches over the last 10 years. The highest month on average has been January (74.1), but then the search traffic trickles down to the lowest month (June at 55.4). However, it then begins to rise every month until it gets back to January (its highest point), when it begins to drop again.

So where are your patients searching for “bad breath?”

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How Coltene’s BioSonic® Suvi® Elite Plus was designed with hygienists in mind [VIDEO]

The stinkiest states? Where people across the United States are searching for 'bad breath'