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Online conferences and live streaming: CAPP supports dental professionals during pandemic

DUBAI, UAE: Despite the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic on its event business, the Centre for Advanced Professional Practices (CAPP) is committed to...

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New coating method allows stronger adhesion of dental implant

SEOUL, South Korea: The history of dental implantology dates back to ancient times, yet researchers are still trying solve a number of issues, such as ...

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FDA changes stance on dental amalgam

WHITE OAK, Md., U.S.: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its guidance for the use of dental amalgam in tooth restorations. The agency ...

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Intelligent simplification with the new CLEARFIL MAJESTY ES-2 Universal

HATTERSHEIM AM MAIN, Germany: Time has always been limited in dental offices, and COVID-19 sanitisation requirements have led to even greater constraints in...

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Piezotome extractions favour bone preservation with immediate implant placement

BORDEAUX, France: Tooth extraction is the most common procedure performed in oral surgery.1 For example, ten million third molars are removed each year in ...

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Interview: Building rapport between dental technicians and dentists

Romeo Giuseppe is a dental technician and owner of a prosthetic dentistry laboratory in Turin in Italy. In this interview, he speaks to Dental Tribune ...

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Teachers crucial to development of healthy eating habits, study finds

SYDNEY, Australia: When it comes to the development of children’s habits, the influence their teachers hold in this regard is clear. In a new review study...

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Koelnmesse presents awaited concept for safe IDS 2021

COLOGNE, Germany: Over the past months, concerns have arisen about the likelihood of the International Dental Show (IDS) taking place in March 2021 owing to...

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BIOLASE reports revenue rebound

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., U.S.: Medical device company BIOLASE expects that its U.S. sales revenue for the third quarter of 2020 will be in line with that of ...

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Interview: "SugarByHalf’s mission is for people to live better and healthier lives"

In recent years, numerous studies have established conclusively that there is a link between oral health and systemic disease. More than 50% of Australian ...

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“Mere theory does not benefit patients”—Putting prevention into practice with iTOP

ITOP, short for individually trained oral prophylaxis, is a training programme for achieving and maintaining perfect oral health. Aimed at dental students ...

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Leading dental schools unite

LONDON, UK: Four of the world’s top dental colleges have entered into an alliance that aims to advance dental education and pursue new research ...

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What we know about a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine so far

LEIPZIG, Germany: As the race to develop a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine continues, certain questions may arise that need clarification. While some still doubt the ...

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Produits Dentaires launches new IrriFlex website

VEVEY, Switzerland: Produits Dentaires (PD), a leading Swiss manufacturer specialising in safe and efficient solutions for dental therapy, has launched a ...

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Align versus 3Shape: A patent battle for the ages

LEIPZIG, Germany: For the American legal teams of both Align Technology and 3Shape, 19 October was an exceptionally busy day. While Align dropped a patent ...

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Organisers eventually cancel CEDE live event

ŁÓDŹ, Poland: The organisers of the Central European Dental Exhibition (CEDE) have announced that the on-site event scheduled for 3 to 5 December in ...

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Interview: Sex hormones and periodontal health

Changes in sex hormone levels are associated with the onset and progression of periodontal disease. Dr Ali Çekici, an associate professor at the department...

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Study indicates 16% of UK dental professionals may have had COVID-19

BIRMINGHAM, UK: Across the UK, local lockdowns are proliferating as SARS-CoV-2 case numbers continue to increase. Though the initial nationwide lockdown ...

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MIS celebrates 25 years of making it simple

AHIHUD, Israel: This year, MIS Implants Technologies is celebrating its 25th anniversary. During these two and a half decades, the company has taken on ...

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Less than 1% of dentists in the U.S. affected by COVID-19, study finds

CHICAGO, U.S.: Since SARS-CoV-2 is an airborne virus and very easily spreads through aerosols, dentists were believed to be at a high infection risk at the ...

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Interview: “Thanks to this app, patients take ownership of their bodies”

Getting patients to brush interdentally can be an arduous task, but the BOB-App does exactly that. BOB stands for “bleeding on brushing”, which is the ...

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KATANA Zirconia: The science behind superior product properties

Users of dental zirconia are really spoilt for choice these days. Countless manufacturers offer zirconia materials that differ in their mechanical and ...

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World’s first digital implant receives European CE mark certification

HÜNENBERG, Switzerland: TRI Dental Implants recently announced that it has obtained CE mark certification, enabling it to market its digital implant, ...

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Sunshine vitamin D and COVID-19: Is there a correlation?

LEIPZIG, Germany: Vitamin D, also referred to as the sunshine vitamin, is increasingly more difficult to obtain from sun exposure. The increase in the ...

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The future is now: Revolutionising dentistry with digital dentures

COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Whereas it was previously impossible to imagine a dental laboratory adopting a fully digital workflow, digital dentistry has already ...

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Dentsply Sirona delivers smart workflows to make work flow in implant dentistry

CHARLOTTE, N.C., U.S./BENSHEIM, Germany: After a series of groundbreaking product and solution launches, Dentsply Sirona’s sights are now set on creating ...

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A hybrid dental hygienist

A periodontist once told me that a good dental hygienist leaves behind around 15% of calculus after initial therapy. As a dental hygiene student, I failed ...

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Accelerated aligners with photobiomodulation

When I first heard about clear aligners in the early 2000s (the US Food and Drug Administration approved the use of clear aligners to straighten teeth in ...

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Convicted hoverboard-riding dentist will serve 12 years in jail

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, U.S.: Videos of an Alaskan dentist treating a patient while riding a hoverboard went viral during an investigation of his practice last ...

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Fallow time calculator launched after AGP review

LONDON, UK: A review of the evidence relating to the use of aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) and the risk that they pose for the transmission of ...

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