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Articles

 What a difference a day can make in your dental career. Here I was, like many of you-operating a very successful practice in a mid-size community-thinking I was keeping up with all of the advantages that modern dentistry could offer. I’d keep track of all that was new by reviewing publications like Dental Products Report and others on a monthly basis. I’d attend the regional tradeshows and attend CE courses.

The difference a day makes

 Information provided by 3Shape.  Improving on existing functions and adding expanded capabilities, 3Shape’s Dental System™ 2012 software is designed to provide CAD/CAM solutions for new indications, help dental labs increase productivity and help dental labs help their dentists.

A complete package

 The words “Quality Management System” get thrown around a lot, but at Vident, there is an actual process in place to bring meaning to the phrase. What can you tell us about that process?  At Vident, quality management is a continuous process of improvement that never ends. There is always room for increasing the customer experience and reducing nonconformance in an efficient way. VITA has had amazing quality processes in place since 1924, and we definitely benefit from being a VITA company.

Corporate Profile: Vident

 April 2010 | Dental Products Report web exclusive

Tip of the month

 Unless you can clone yourself, chances are you won’t be able to take in all of the lectures, workshops, hands-on demonstrations and forums you want to attend during the jam-packed days surrounding the Chicago Midwinter Meeting, Feb. 23-27. With some careful planning, however, you could hear the most important ideas and advice collectively offered by respected key opinion leaders through panel discussions that are designed to offer a number of viewpoints on a common topic and often are accompanied by interactive question-and-answer periods.

Talk of the town

 January 2010 | dlpmagazine.com Forward Trends  Dentistry without borders  How emerging technologies and new business models can connect you to a global market.  by Richard Palmer    Photo: Comstock/Getty Images  It is a small world after all.

Dentistry without borders

 CAD/CAM has been a topic of discussion in the dental lab business for a number of years now, and there are numerous opinions about it-examples of many appear in this issue of DLP. Now that we have you thinking about CAD/CAM, I figure this is a good opportunity to get my 2 cents worth out there too.

CAD/CAM: To buy or not to buy?

 January 2011 | Dental Lab Products   The CAD/CAM Chorus  View from an early adopter  Scott Udell – Manager, Udell Dental Laboratory   by Noah Levine, Senior Editor

The CAD/CAM Chorus: View from an early adopter

 The rising demand for elective and implant-based dental treatments has led to a direct increase in the use of temporary restorations.1 Properly fitted and reliable, patients benefit from the utility and esthetics that provisional materials offer.1 Further, dentists rely on provisionals to prevent deterioration of hard and soft tissues of the oral cavity while patients await the definitive restoration.1

Creating strong, durable provisionals

01. As the pioneer of chairside CAD/CAM, how does Sirona view the role of the lab technician now and in the future? We see it is a more and more integrated role in which the technology will allow the technician and the dentist to work more closely together and in a more efficient way and in ways that enhance the type of dentistry that they’re doing.