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Dental Excellence Awards 2012 winners
Congratulations to all the candidates who made it to the final round of the third annual DrBicuspid Dental Excellence Awards, along with our thanks to everyone who participated in the nominating and voting processes.
All candidates were nominated by members of DrBicuspid.com, who then voted in two subsequent rounds to determine the winners.
For a full list of the 2012 Dental Excellence Awards candidates, click here. For a list of the finalists, click here.
Below are the 12 winners of the 2012 DrBicuspid Dental Excellence Awards:
Most Influential Dental Researcher
Rella Christensen, RDH, PhD
CR Foundation
Most Effective Dentist Educator
Frank Spear, DDS, MSD
Spear Education
Most Effective Dental Hygienist Educator
Rachel Wall, RDH, BS
Inspired Hygiene
Most Effective Dental Assistant Educator
Shannon Pace-Brinker, CDA, CDD
Best Practice Management Consultant
Kerry Straine, President/CEO
Straine Consulting
Best New Material
SonicFill
Kerr Dental
Best New Instrument/Device
Midwest RDH Freedom Cordless Handpiece
Dentsply International
Best New Diagnostic/Imaging Device
VELscope Vx
LED Dental
Best New Software/Service
i-CAT Precise with TxStudio
Imaging Sciences International
Best New Consumer Product
Sonicare AirFloss
Royal Philips Electronics
Most Popular Clinical Procedure
Dental implants
Dental therapists/midlevel providers
Introducing Lava™ Ultimate CAD/CAM Restorative: A New Class of CAD/CAM Material
Fast and tough material for CEREC®, E4D® and Straumann.
3M ESPE‚ introduces Lava™ Ultimate CAD/CAM Restorative, a unique new CAD/CAM material with long-lasting esthetics and performance. Based on 3M ESPE’s renowned nanotechnology, Lava Ultimate CAD/CAM restorative offers a polish that lasts, and backs it up with a 10-year warranty—something no other chairside block can match.
x-tra base Bulk Fill Flowable Posterior Composite with 4mm cure in 10 seconds
VOCO introduces with x-tra base, a fast setting bulk fill posterior composite which allows curing of 4mm layers in only 10 seconds when using the universal shade. This is 50% faster than the leading brand. The 75% filled x-tra base has a low shrinkage stress and low shrinkage that combined with its high compressive strength (350 MPa) and flexural strength (133 MPa) makes it a perfect foundation for posterior fillings. X-tra base can therefore be used in the open and closed sandwich technique. The self-leveling effect allows easy adaption to the cavity walls. X-tra base is highly radiopaque (350% Al) for easy x-ray identification and available in VOCO’s patented non-dripping syringe or unit dose caps with extra long bendable metal tip in universal or A2 shade.
New Quick Up method eliminates the risk of accidental locking of dentures to the implant and cuts procedure time in half.
VOCO is introducing with Quick Up, an innovative and complete implant pick up system that virtually eliminates the risk of interlocking and cuts chair side time in half.
Designed specifically for bonding attachments, such as ball, Locator® and telescopic attachments as well as other attachments in acrylic-based dentures, Quick Up can also be used for reattaching secondary elements in a denture such as bar retainers. With everything in one system, Quick Up improves workflow and chairside efficiency—saving time and money. The system includes Quick Up self-curing composite in the QuickMix syringe. Easy to use, Quick Up SC demonstrates exceptionally high strength. Other components of the System include: Fit Test C&B—used to check whether the openings in the denture base provide enough space to receive the attachments and for blocking out undercuts in the overdenture; Quick Up adhesive—a strong adhesive material that is applied to the underside of the denture to improve composite retention; and Quick Up LC, a light-cure composite used to correct minor surface defects in the denture.
In the new quick up technique the recess holes will be filled only 2/3 with the self cured Quick Up SC and after intraoral setting finished with the light cured Quick up fill LC. This procedure does not require vent hole preparation and excess material removal, polishing time is significant reduced. The overall procedure time is cut in half compared to the classic methods.
Whip Mix and Glidewell are proud to announce a new partnership for the dental laboratory industry.
Immediately you can contact Whip Mix for the fabrication of BruxZir full contour Zirconia restorations, BruxZir blocks for milling, Inclusive abutments, Inclusive bars, and other Inclusive restorative components.
Jim Shuck: “This partnership between our two companies marks the beginning of a great relationship. Whip Mix has always been known as company that will do anything to take care of their dental laboratory customers. We believe dental laboratories will find it advantageous to be able to provide their dentists with the top selling brand of full contour zirconia, BruxZir. Considering the skyrocketing cost of precious metals, it is a perfect time to offer dentists the lower cost option of full zirconia restorations”.
Stuart Steinbock: “Working with Glidewell is really exciting for Whip Mix. Glidewell has consistently shown that they bring world class innovation to the dental market through their unique R&D capabilities and real world feedback with the number of cases that they process each day. Both BruxZir and Inclusive product lines are quality products and we are proud to be able to offer both to our customers”.
Whip Mix is now one of only two authorized BruxZir Milling Facility’s for laboratories located in the Eastern Time Zone. This enables us to extend service for those labs that need help during those business hours. Additionally, Whip Mix is located adjacent to a major UPS Hub, enabling fast shipping..
Founded in 1919, Whip Mix manufactures Hanau™, Denar® and Whip Mix articulators, dental gypsums, investments, waxes, furnaces, Jelrus burnout ovens, mixing equipment and model trimmers for use in dental labs and dental offices. Whip Mix, headquartered in Louisville, Ky, is ISO9001-2008 certified and sells its products through distributors in over 80 countries and also maintains an office and distribution center in Dortmund, Germany. For more information visit www.whipmix.com.
TotalCare, the Leader in Dental Disinfectants, Launches New Googles® Professional to their Personal Protective Eye Shield Line
NEW GOOGLES PROFESSIONAL is personal protective eyewear that delivers safety and comfort while offering high end style.
TotalCare, the leader in dental surface disinfectants launches a new style of personal protective eyewear with Googles Professional. This eyewear delivers a high level of safety with style.
Googles professional combines a sleek, stylish, re-usable frame with disposable optical grade plastic lenses that will help minimize the transmission of infectious materials. The stylish design keeps the product looking modern while the lenses wrap around enough to provide side protection. They are available in 4 different frame colors: Cobalt Blue, Pearl White, Pearlescent Pink and Composite Gray.
Now, the cost-effective choice to go disposable doesn’t have to be uncomfortable or look cheap. Effectively minimize cross contamination and turnover the patient room effortlessly with Googles Professional.
About TotalCare
TotalCare is a subsidiary of Sybron Dental Specialties. Our corporate headquarters is located in Orange, California, and our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility is in Romulus, Michigan. At TotalCare, we’re all about protecting people by providing high-quality infection-prevention products, including a complete line of pre-cleaners and enzymatic detergents, high-level disinfectants, surface disinfectants, liquid medical waste disposal products, eye protection and hand hygiene products. TotalCare products are sold through leading dental and medical product suppliers around the globe. To contact a TotalCare representative, call 800.841.1428 or visit www.kerrtotalcare.com.
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For more information, contact:
Kathy Wie
TotalCare
714.516.7982
kathy.wie@sybrondental.com
www.kerrtotalcare.com
Whip Mix Honors Breast Cancer Awareness with a Pink Articulator
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Whip Mix is offering a PINK Denar® Mark 320 Articulator. This is a limited edition model that is sure to be a collector’s item. Whip Mix will be donating a portion of the sales of these special articulators to the American Cancer Society to help fund cancer research.
The PINK Denar® Mark 320 Articulator has all the same great features as the original model. It’s a semi-adjustable articulator with progressive sideshift fixed at 15° and an adjustable condylar inclination (0° – 60°). The three point magnetic system ensures stability of cases and makes it interchangeable with any Mark 300 Series Articulator as it is accurate to within 20 microns.
This limited edition articulator will be available on October 1, 2011, contact you dealer to order today or call us at 800-626-5651.
Founded in 1919, Whip Mix manufactures Hanau™, Denar® and Whip Mix articulators, dental gypsums, investments, waxes, furnaces, Jelrus burnout ovens, mixing equipment and model trimmers for use in dental labs and dental offices. Whip Mix, headquartered in Louisville, Ky, is ISO9001-2008 certified and sells its products through distributors in over 80 countries and also maintains an office and distribution center in Dortmund, Germany. For more information visit www.whipmix.com.
Dental Organization iPhone/iPad App Now Available
New free App will aid offices in making decisions about tubs, trays, mirrors and other office organizational items
OXNARD, California, August 10, 2011- Dental office organization can be confusing and overwhelming. Questions like “why do I need so many trays?” or “should I buy cassettes?” and “am I in compliance?” come up all the time when speaking with dental professionals. That’s why the Office Organization Calculator iPhone/iPad App and PC desktop program were created. These new Apps will do the planning for you when you enter in some basic office information. The App will create a complete customized shopping list that you can submit for order or use to plan with your favorite dental dealer. Visit www.duxdental.com/calculator to download the App or desktop program. Call 1-800-833-8267 and ask for Mike if you have any questions.
About DUX Dental
DUX Dental has been manufacturing and distributing the highest level of dental products worldwide for over 50 years. Our goal is to manufacture products that outperform other products of their type, and to look for innovations wherever possible. No matter the product, our principle remains the same. We make high quality products that, we think, are better for the dental team. DUX Dental manufactures Identic and KromaFaze Alginate, ZONE temporary cement, ShortCut GingiBRAID, Xenolite™ Lead-Free X-Ray Aprons, PeelVue+ Pouches and Bib-Eze disposable bib holders to name a few products. To learn more about our extensive, quality product line please visit www.duxdental.com or call 1.800.833.8267 and speak with customer service.
Media Contact: Stacey Williams, DUX Dental, swilliams@duxdental.com, 1.800.833.8267
National Museum of Dentistry awarded grants from ADA Foundation, DentaQuest to improve children’s oral health
The National Museum of Dentistry has been awarded a Give Kids A Smile Champion Grant from the ADA Foundation to enhance children’s oral health, particularly those from low-income families. An additional award was given by the DentaQuest Foundation to help provide every first grader in Baltimore City public schools with educational resources to ensure good oral health practices.
“We decided to look in our own backyard and test a program that will intercept every child in Baltimore City early enough to teach oral health life skills that will change how they view and take care of their teeth,” said National Museum of Dentistry Executive Director Jonathan Landers.
The Museum will be taking its signature oral health education program—MouthPower—into the Baltimore City schools to help young people learn the importance of good oral health in a healthy life. The Museum will distribute MouthPower oral health kits, including tip posters and educational CD-ROMS, to every first grade classroom, as well as tip cards about how to brush and floss to 6,500 students. The program will also provide toothbrushes and toothpaste for the children to continue practicing what they’ve learned at home. The program will also offer subsidized field trips to the Museum for first-grade classes most in need of financial assistance.
The MouthPower educational program explores how to brush and floss, why to say no to tobacco, and how to make healthy food choices. It has been used by the Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Baltimore City Head Start to educate children during National Children’s Dental Health month, as well as organizations nationally to support oral health education initiatives. More than 5,000 students also encounter the program on site during field trips to the Museum each year.
“Unfortunately, many Baltimore City students–who are most in need of our programs–cannot afford to access them,” said Landers. “These grants will help provide every first grade teacher and student with oral health education resources in their classroom and will provide an opportunity for the most ‘in-need’ first grade classes to visit the museum without charge.”
Give Kids A Smile (GKAS) Champion Grantees are established national initiatives who collaborate with Give Kids A Smile to enhance children’s oral health. The goal of the grant is to provide a competitive funding opportunity to for GKAS Program Champions to receive support for initiatives that uphold the Give Kids A Smile vision. Give Kids A Smile is an annual program of the American Dental Association that works with thousands of the nation’s dentists and their dental team members to provide free oral health care services to children from low-income families.
The National Museum of Dentistry also received a grant from DentaQuest Foundation to support this program as an early intervention tool that will impact not only those children that are able to visit the Museum, but take these critical lessons into the classroom. The Museum’s work directly relates to the DentaQuest Foundation’s mission to promote and support optimal oral health.
The State of Maryland’s Office of Oral Health will also provide toothpaste and children’s toothbrushes to distribute to the classrooms, as well as a magnet with a phone number families can call for assistance in locating a dentist.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DENTISTRY
See amazing teeth feats, marvel at George Washington’s choppers, sing along to vintage toothpaste commercials, and discover fascinating hands-on exhibitions about the power of a healthy smile. Enjoy field trips, home school days, special events, and more. An Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, this one-of-a-kind museum is located at 31 South Greene Street, a short walk from the Inner Harbor. Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors, and students with ID, $3 for children age 3-19; and free for age 2 & under and active duty military & immediate family. Open Wednesday–Saturday 10 a.m.–4 p.m. and Sunday 1–4 p.m. Closed Mondays, Tuesdays, and major holidays. Call 410/706-0600 or visit www.smile-experience.org.
ADA FOUNDATION
The ADA Foundation is a catalyst for connecting people and changing lives. In its history, the ADA Foundation has disbursed nearly $36.5 million dollars to support charitable activities. These include grants for dental research and access to care, awards and scholarships. In addition, the ADA Foundation supports Charitable Assistance Programs such as relief grants to dentists and their dependents that are unable to support themselves due to injury, a medical condition or advanced age; and grants to dentists who are victims of disasters. For more information, visit www.adafoundation.org
DENTAQUEST FOUNDATION
The DentaQuest Foundation invests in national and community-based efforts to improve oral health for all Americans through its support of prevention and access to oral health care, and through its partnerships with funders, policymakers, and community leaders. For more information, please visit dentaquestfoundation.org. The DentaQuest Foundation is supported by DentaQuest. DentaQuest is a leading oral health company, administering prevention-focused dental benefits to nearly 15 million individuals across the United States.
ANOTHER AMAZING NEW PRACTICE RESOURCE, AVAILABLE NOW FROM CHARLES BLAIR, DDS…
CODING WITH CONFIDENCE is a unique reference guidebook that goes beyond the typical “list and describe” found in other coding handbooks. Developed using information compiled from thousands of interviews with doctors and staff and examining their practice data, the book uses PREDICTIVE ERROR CORRECTION technology to help predict common errors and mistakes before they are made.
This manual provides expert assistance to practice staff finding it difficult to keep up with the frequent changes, revisions and deletions in the CDT codes, now mandated every other year. Reader-friendly graphics like the Coding Correction, Warning, and Watch icons ensure you know what to look out for with hundreds of different CDT codes.
Introduction
Dr. Charles Blair is CEO of Dr. Charles Blair & Associates, Inc. located in North Carolina. A graduate of Erskine College, heearned his Doctorate of Dental Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition, Dr. Blair hold degreesin Accounting, Business Administration and Mathematics.
Dr. Charles Blair is dentistry’s leading authority on practice profitability, fee analysis, insurance coding strategies and overheadcontrol. He has individually consulted with thousands of practices, helping them identify and implement new strategies forgreater productivity and profitability. A widely-read and highly-respected author and publisher, Dr. Blair has authored andco-authored several business and finance books, as well as contributed numerous articles in various dental publications. Hecurrently offers two publications, Coding with Confidence: The “Go To” Dental Insurance Guide and the Insurance Solutions Newsletter. Also through his expertise, he has created the innovative PracticeBooster®, dentistry’s Clinical Treatment Intensifier (www.practicebooster.com).
In addition, Dr. Blair is a nationally acclaimed speaker for national, state and local dental groups, study clubs and otherprofessional organizations. He offers leading-edge presentations in the business, finance, and insurance coding arena ofdentistry. Dr. Blair’s extensive background and experience makes him uniquely qualified to share his wealth of knowledgewith the dental profession.
Dr. Charles Blair & Associates, Inc.
85 Catawba Street
3142P.O. Box 986, Belmont, North Carolina, North Carolina 28012-0986
Phone: (866) 858-7596
Fax: (704) 822-3142P