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Dental News
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...