Novel device eliminates dental drill noise
2011-01-09
A team of U.K. researchers has developed a device that cancels out the noise of a dental handpiece during use, potentially easing people’s anxiety about
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Argen acquires Captek Technology assets
2011-01-09
Dental gold producer Argen has acquired the worldwide exclusive manufacturing and distribution rights for all Captek products and technologies, the company announced. “We believe that
Align, Cadent to develop new Invisalign apps
2011-01-09
Align Technology and Cadent have entered into an agreement to jointly develop software applications that will run on Cadent iTero and iOC scanners for use
Crest Oral-B names 2nd hygienist award winner
2011-01-09
Trudy Meinberg, RDH, from the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) College of Dentistry, has been selected as the second recipient of the Crest Oral-B
Moxifloxacin beats clindamycin for some odontogenic infections
2011-01-09
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Moxifloxacin was significantly more effective than clindamycin at controlling the pain of odontogenic/gingival inflammatory infiltrates, in a small phase II
Ohio dentist in teen’s death settled prior lawsuit
2011-01-09
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
More dental labs documented materials quality in 2010
2011-01-09
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,
Ky. start-up wins $10K for new root canal tool
2011-01-09
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,
Go Smile sues founder over teeth-whitening trademarks
2011-01-06
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
U.S. regulators call for less fluoride in drinking water
2011-01-06
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
GSK, Dentsply to co-brand tooth sensitivity products
2011-01-06
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
GC America launches 3 flowable composites
2011-01-05
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
