MRSA-Golden Staph (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) is a serious topic in the dental industry. Dental nurses may rarely know what blood disorders or pathogens/viruses a patient may have when they walk into the surgery. Standards and precautions should be at the highest level at all times. Patients can have a transmissible infectious condition and in dentistry saliva is considered a potentially infectious material that often contains blood, secretions and excretions. Golden Staph can kill almost 20% of its carriers according to Peter Collington a physician and microbiologist at the ..read more

Mäkinen KK1, Bennett CA, Hujoel PP, Isokangas PJ, Isotupa KP, Pape HR Jr, Mäkinen PL. Abstract Dental caries is a pandemic infectious disease which can affect the quality of life and consumes considerable health care resources. The chewing of xylitol, sorbitol, and even sugar gum has been suggested to reduce caries rates. No clinical study has simultaneously investigated the effectiveness of these gums when compared with a group receiving no chewing gum. A 40-month double-blind cohort study on the relationship between the use of chewing gum and dental caries was performed in 1989-1993 in Beli ..read more

Bisco Dental Products www.bisco.com Here’s a little “inventory pop quiz” for you: How many different bonding agents are you currently purchasing? How many bottles of bonding agent do you have on hand in your clinic? How much bonding agent are you throwing away each year because you don’t manage to use it before it expires? If you’re like many of your peers, your answers are “a bunch,” “4 or 5 in each room,” and “25 or 30%.” Not a desirable situation! As Dr. Todd Snyder, a cosmetic dentist, author, international lecturer and researcher, puts it, “Can’t we simplify it and find a sys ..read more

– Increased purchases due to excellent quality, applicability, and low-dose irradiation – Expand business to medical and industrial markets based on stable CNT X-ray technology Vatech, a global leader in dental imaging market, reported that EzRay, an intraoral scanner based on CNT(Carbon nanotube) digital X-ray, has reached sales of 30,000 units worldwide. The EzRay Air series is a digital X-ray generator, that Vatech commercialized for the fir time in the dental industry with the CNT X-ray technology. It’s used with intraoral sensors for oral imaging as a basic dental diagnosis tool. Unlike t ..read more

SockIt! is available in boxes of 5 - click here to buy As a patient-centered dental practice, you are committed to delivering the highest standard of care and patient comfort as possible. And Sockit Gel - an all natural, FDA-approved treatment for all oral wounds, is the perfect solution for improving outcomes with your patients and your practice. With over 12 years in-market and a million-plus units sold. Sockit Gel has been proven time and again by dentists worldwide to be effective in both pain management and acceleration of healing from oral procedures. Wound dressings are defined as ther ..read more