Product news The future starts now Dr Matthew Burton from
Loughborough Road Dental Practice has been using the CS 3500 intraoral scanner from Carestream Dental for the last three months. “The CS 3500 has provided a completely new experience for me, a totally different way of working. I mostly use it for milling posterior restorations, but it has opened new opportunities for improved patient experience and care.
“Not only does it eliminate the need for traditional impressions but it also vastly increases the speed of treatment. As such, I was recently able to provide two restorations for a patient who had been waiting years:
Fast and easy placement
with only short visits to the area of a couple of days at a time, we had been unable to take impressions and create restorations fast enough with traditional techniques.”
For more information, contact Carestream Dental on 0800 169 9692 or visit
www.carestreamdental.co.uk
Secure LDU record storage
Dolby Medical, Scotland’s leading dental LDU supply and servicing company has announced the development of a new facility for its customers – COMPLY-SAFE.
COMPLY-SAFE is a secure online storage system enabling Dolby Medical to hold an individual dental customer’s LDU service records digitally – so they can be accessed by the client at anytime, by the simple click of a button.
Iain Pryde, product manager at Dolby Medical said: “Our aim is to make things as easy as possible for our dental customers. Storing their LDU service records digitally on their behalf helps to do this.
COMPLY-SAFE will take the hassle away from our customers of having to file and store these records themselves. All the servicing records required for any compliance checks can be held securely in one place and can be accessed in seconds.”
More details on COMPLY-SAFE and multi-service contracts can be obtained by calling Dolby Medical on 01786 235 500.
Visit us at IPS Glasgow Schülke will be exhibiting at
the Infection Prevention Society (IPS) Conference in Glasgow from 29 September to 1 October. Come and visit us on Stand 54 to find out more about our extensive infection prevention and control product range. You can also watch our new DVD showing how schülke watersafe completely
removes biofilm in DUWLs and then provides continual protection against biofilm reforming. If you’re not already enjoying the benefits of our Plus Points Reward scheme, we can help you join and start receiving rewards that can be exchanged for free products!
Contact Allan Wright, on 07976 513 439, or visit
www.schulke.co.uk
Filtek Bulk Fill flowable restorative from 3M ESPE offers fast and easy placement in just one increment of 4mm, is 50 per cent stronger than the leading bulk fill flowable and has nearly twice the wear resistance. This allows for increased efficiency without compromising on professional standards. Dr Nikhil Arolker from Eckington Dental, Sheffield is extremely impressed. He said: “I really like Filtek Bulk Fill flowable restorative
and have been using it since it was launched. I more or less use it every day and have had absolutely no problems with it. “I find that the restorative saves me time, handles really well and patients appear to have experienced no problems with sensitivity. It’s radiopaque, and it does what I need it to do.”
Call 0845 602 5094 or visit
www.3Mespe.co.uk 3M, ESPE and Filtek are trademarks of the 3M Company.
Cochrane conclusions
on oscillating brushes For the third consecutive time, the independent, not-for-profit Cochrane Collaboration has concluded that oscillating-rotating technology – used in Oral-B power toothbrushes – is the only type of power brush consistently proven to reduce more plaque and gingivitis versus manual brushing in the short and long term. This outcome was derived from a larger study that concluded power brushes outperform manual toothbrushing.
The conclusions of this most recent report, published in June 2014, were derived from reviews of 56 studies published from 1964 to 2011 and included no less than seven types of power brush technologies, based on brush head movement.
More than 50 per cent of the studies reviewed focused on oscillating-rotating technology, reinforcing the robustness of Oral-B’s body of scientific evidence versus other power brushing technologies.
Up for a challenge?
Philips Oral Healthcare is recruiting dentists, dental hygienists and therapists to ‘Take the Sonicare EasyClean Challenge’; trialling the brush and reporting their findings about its effectiveness. The Philips Sonicare EasyClean will come coupled with an InterCare brush head which is Sonicare’s best brush head for an all-round clean. At the end of the four week period every trialist will be able to keep the brush to thank them for participating.
Dentists and hygienists wanting to take part in the trial should visit
www.philips-tsp.
co.uk to sign up.
The recruitment process will continue at the BDIA Showcase in October at the Philips Oral Healthcare stand (P09).
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