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Carestream Dental is hosting two workshops at the 2014 Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting to teach attendees about the latest innovations in imaging and practice management software.

Midwinter 2014: Carestream Dental hosting hands-on courses on CAD/CAM, 3D imaging and practice management solutions

CAD/CAM Wax discs (Pack of 3) are specially formulated in-house by experienced technicians at Talladium.

Talladium formulates new brown wax discs for CAD/CAM

Sun Dental Labs has announced it now offers 3-D model scanners to labs and doctors interested in entering the digital age of dental technology.

Go digital without breaking the bank with Sun Dental Labs' scanner rental program [VIDEO]

Frontier Dental Laboratories has created Brilliance Z, a monolithic full-contour zirconia structure. Brilliance Z is made of pre-sintered yttria stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystalline ceramics (YTZP) for use as CAD/CAM milling blanks. It has a flexural strength of Mpa 1000 +/- 1-Mpa.

Frontier Dental Laboratories unleashes Brilliance Z full-contour zirconia

Roland DGA Corp.’s new DWX-4 compact dental mill has been qualified by 3M ESPE for use with the company's Lava Ultimate Restorative resin nano ceramic material. 

Roland DWX-4 Compact Dental Mill now certified for 3M ESPE Lava™ Ultimate Restorations

3Shape recently released its next generation Dental System™ 2014 to the market, which boasts new dental indications, a new user interface and optimized workflows for TRIOS® digital impressions.

3Shape’s Dental System™ 2014 includes a new user interface, optimized workflows and more

3Shape, manufacturer of 3D scanners and CAD/CAM software solutions, has released a CAD software tool to the dental market that enables labs to provide common dental appliances as a new service.

What the new splint module for 3Shape Dental System means for your lab [VIDEO]

Shareholders in Delcam, one of the world’s leading suppliers of advanced software for manufacturing industry, recently announced that they have voted to accept the offer made by Autodesk to acquire the company.

Delcam to become Autodesk subsidiary

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.  

Q&A with Chad Naughton, U.S. Chairside Marketer for 3M ESPE

How chairside scanning with the 3M True Definition Scanner can help you better practice dentistry

It’s truly becoming a digital world, known all too well to the dental lab industry. 