Henry Mazorow, DDS, the 80-year-old Ohio dentist who performed oral surgery on a 13-year-old who died after he extracted two of her teeth, settled a wrongful death lawsuit regarding another patient more than a decade ago, according to a story in the Chronicle-Telegram. Marissa Kingery from Elyria, OH, died January 3 following surgery by Dr. Mazorow to extract two deciduous teeth and uncover an impacted tooth on December 21. The
The IdentAlloy/IdentCeram Council shipped a record 17.6 million certificates for dental labs to use in documenting the content and quality of restorative materials last year, the council announced. The 8% increase was driven by much greater interest among labs, dentists, and patients in the material content of dental restorations, said council director Charles Yenkner. Additionally, seven new companies have applied for and received licenses to use the council’s materials verification
The Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Program at New York University’s (NYU) College of Dentistry recently released print and Internet ads urging healthcare providers to make quitting a priority with their patients who smoke, according to a press release. Donna Shelley, MD, MPH, clinical associate professor at the NYU College of Dentistry and School of Medicine, is encouraging healthcare providers to make a New Year’s resolution to treat smoking as a chronic
A Kentucky dental technology company founded in 2010 by three young entrepreneurs has won a statewide business idea competition sponsored by Kentucky Highlands Investment. Inven, which has developed an endodontic file designed to save time and lower risks associated with root canals, won $10,000 and free office space for a year in Kentucky Highlands’ new business accelerator in London, KY, the company announced. The patent-pending Intellidontic file features a marker
The Iowa Dental Board is looking more closely at corporate dental practices in the wake of last week’s abrupt closure of all 38 Allcare Dental and Dentures offices in the U.S., including Iowa. Emergency Dental Care USA in Clive, IA, is now working with Allcare Dental to accept the transfer of records for Iowa patients, the board noted in a press release. The dental board also said it has seen
Go Smile has filed two lawsuits against its founder, Jonathan B. Levine, DMD, alleging that his use of trademarks for a line of home-based teeth-whitening products are “confusingly similar” to Go Smiles’ and that he violated a noncompete agreement. Dr. Levine, who practices in New York, counts celebrities such as Christie Brinkley among his clients and has appeared on the Dr. Oz television show. He cofounded Go Smile in 2002
Americans are getting fluoride from a variety of sources that did not exist in the 1940s, when community water fluoridation first got under way. Water consumption patterns have changed too. So, while continuing to stress the benefits of fluoride, officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have proposed that the recommended level of fluoride in drinking water be set at the lowest end of the current
The Florida Attorney General’s Office has settled allegations of deceptive marketing practices with XM Brands, which sells nonprescription dietary aids, nutritional supplements, teeth-whitening products, and other products over the Internet. The settlement resolves issues related to XM’s trial offers, automatic subscription renewals, and automatic shipments. The Attorney General’s Economic Crimes Division began investigating XM in December 2009 when consumers complained that they received and were billed for products they did
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Dentsply have entered into an agreement to create a portfolio of co-branded oral care products to be used in the dental office by patients suffering from tooth sensitivity. In December 2009, GSK acquired NovaMin, a patent-protected calcium phosphate technology that has been clinically proven to relieve tooth sensitivity, according to the company. The new agreement will allow Dentsply to co-brand its Nupro products, which contain the NovaMin
Henry Schein Dental is now the exclusive distributor of LED Dental’s new VELscope Vx Enhanced Oral Assessment system in North America, the companies announced. The VELscope Vx system is the latest generation of VELscope technology. While retaining all of the capabilities of prior generations, its cordless design provides significantly greater portability and convenience, according to LED Dental. It sells for less than half that of previous models, and a reimbursement
GC America has launched a three-product family of flowable composites. G-ænial Universal Flo is a nanohybrid light-cured composite that has the easy handling of a low-flow flowable. Advancements in filler technology led to a new silanation process resulting in a product that is 69% (by weight) filled with 200 nm homogeneously dispersed particles. Tests have shown G-ænial Universal Flo is stronger and has better wear resistance than leading flowable and
Acetaldehyde, a flavoring compound found in many beverages and foods, appears to be a major underlying factor for the carcinogenicity of alcoholic beverages, especially for esophageal and oral cancers, according to a new study in the Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research (January 6, 2011). A team of German and Russian researchers evaluated the role of acetaldehyde in alcoholic beverages as an additional factor in the etiology of oral
