Dental Tribune UK Edition, October 4-10, 2010, No.24 Vol.4

October 4-10, 201028 Industry News United Kingdom Edition An introduction to restoring implants for the GDP This November, Minesh Patel, BDS, MFGDP, MSc, PG Cert, will be running a one day course for GDPs on restoring implants, in association with BioHorizons. This London based course will be an essential introduction for all GDPs currently placing implants and who would like practical and theoretical training on the key issues around restoration. The course will cover occlusion, patient expectations, anatomy, aesthetics and gingival assessment, with additional guidance from Dr Patel on which prosthetic solution to use and when. The day will conclude with a discussion around the treatment and resolutions of prosthetic complications. This highly valuable course will be held at UCL Eastman CPD, 123 Gray’s Inn Road, London on 27th November 2010. CPD will be credited by BioHorizons and the course is competitively priced at £250. For more information or to book your place contact BioHorizons now on 01344 752560 or infouk@biohorizons.com or visit www.biohorizons.com. UCL Eastman graduate wins orthodontic prize The UCL Eastman Dental Institute would like to congratulate Joanne Birdsall, an orthodontic graduate student who recently won the prestigious J K Williams medal. The JK Williams medal is awarded annually in memory of John Williams, Consultant Orthodontist and outstanding teacher who was based atWakefield and Leeds and a former Board member of the Faculty of Dental Surgery. The winner is the individual achieving the most outstanding overall examination performance in all the diets of the Intercollegiate Membership in Orthodontics examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Glasgow (IMOrth) held in the academic year. Joanne is the 7th winner of the award to be trained at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute. The bi-collegiate award involves a three-hour written examination, followed by the presentation of a series of cases treated personally by the candidate, OSCEs and structured clinical reasoning exercises enabling the assessment of clinical knowledge, skills and communication abilities. Following completion of her three-year training, Joanne plans to continue pursuing a career as a hospital consultant, and is hoping to start a post-CCST training post in October 2010. For more details about the UCL Eastman Dental Institute, please visit www.eastman.ucl.ac.uk or telephone 020 7915 1038 Important product news from Prestige Medical Prestige Medical has announced the launch of their Advance autoclave. With a stylish new look and easy to clean smooth white surface, the Advance is designed to look smart in any dental surgery. Add to that its proven performance and reliability and you need look no further for the autoclave of choice for the dental market. Advance also retains everything that has proved so popular about the C3 Advance – it has one of the highest tray capacities available on the market, is supplied with a complete set of 6 trays, a choice of printer or data logger and a 2 year warranty as part of the package. Service is carried out by our own team of Prestige Medical engineers and, of course, the Advance comes complete with installation, commissioning and user training completely free of charge as standard. To experience the benefits of the new Advance for yourself, contact the sales office now on 01253 844 103 or email sales@prestigemedical.co.uk Cross Infection Control in primary dental care practices FREE for a limited period only Would your clinical staff members welcome a simplified clearer understanding of the requirements in ensuring that the whole team operate in accordance with professionally recognised guidelines for the control of cross infection? The Alkapharm‘Learning Lunch’ is designed as a refresher for the whole team and covers the day to day routine aspects of cross-infection control in the dental surgery, held in your own practice a session lasts just under 2 hours and can be scheduled during an extended lunch period or if preferred at the end of the clinical day. Sessions are designed for the whole team with each attendee receiving 2 hours of verifiable CPD. Learning Lunch is now being offered *FREE OF CHARGE to dental practices with a minimum of 6 staff members For more information and/or to arrange your own practice learning lunch call Alkapharm on 01785 714919. Get your career off the ground, care of DENTSPLY and the BDA As part of its continuing commitment to investing in better dentistry, DENTSPLY is proud to once again sponsor the 2011 BDA / DENTSPLY Student Clinician Research Awards. Held annually, this prestigious awards programme serves as a way to identify new talent from within undergraduate dental students as well as supporting any promising research with the potential to improve the way that future dentistry is practised. Held in three phases, the Awards Programme offers dental students the opportunity to further their career and gain recognition at local, national and international levels. Entrants compete, first within their schools, and then nationally, for the top honour, which includes the chance to present their research project to a panel on a non-competitive basis at the American Dental Association’s annual conference in October. Committed to innovation within dentistry, DENTSPLY is proud to be able to support emerging talent from within the profession alongside the BDA and the DDU. For more information, and entrance requirements, contact your local BDA/ DENTSPLY Student Clinician Research Awards Representative or visit http://www.bda.org/students/awards-competitions/ Diamond GIC Rapid Set Capsules – the way forward! Diamond Rapid Set Capsules are proving very popular with Dentists everywhere because they are very fast, convenient and easy to use. Why not take advantage of Kemdent’s special offer? Buy 3 packs of 20 capsules during October and get either 3 more packs at half price or a free gun and applicator; a great opportunity to experience the advantages of Diamond Capsules in your Dental Practice. The pliable, packable consistency of Diamond makes it extremely easy to carve; it won’t stick to metal instruments, and the restoration will set quickly to a rock hard state. No light curing is required as the restoration is chemically cured and rapid snap set into position. Diamond Rapid Set Capsules are packed in individual, easy to access foils and are suitable for Class 1 and 2 restorations, together with build-up fillings and linings, core build-up and retrograde root fillings. They are available in three matching tooth colour shades. For information on Kemdent’s full range of Diamond products call Helen or Jackie on 01793 770090 or visit our website, www.kemdent.co.uk. No Prep Veneers Delegates at the recent AACD/BACD meeting, ‘Esthetics meets Aesthetics’ in London, were fascinated by Luke Barnett, James Russell and Juergen Wahlmann’s discussion about the latest developments in ultra-thin and no-prep veneers. Item that they covered included: • The importance of orthodontics • Improved communication between dentist and technician • Minimally invasive contouring and how it can improve aesthetics • Advantages and disadvantages of layered and stack feldspathic ceramics To find out how we can help you deliver stunning veneers in the aesthetic zone, call Luke Barnett on 01923 251537 TN010“Double Cord Packer” Garrison Dental Solutions has partnered with well- known lecturing dentist Dr. Robert “Bob” Margeas (Iowa, USA) to produce a unique double bladedretraction cord packing instrument nicknamed ‘Bob’s Double Cord Packer’.This first-of-its-kind instrument has both orientations thin serrated packing blades on one end and both orientations of ultra-thin non- serrated blades on the other. This configuration allows the clinician to simply twist the instrument maintaining it in the current field of view if wearing loupes or using a microscope while continuously packing cord all the way around a tooth. Having both serrated and non-serrated blades on a single instrument allows for the packing of all sizes and types of retraction cord with only one instrument. Inaddition, blades with a more narrow profile have been utilized to prevent injury to the sulcus while packing cord around small teeth and irregularities. Garrison Dental Solutions, innovators of such popular restorative products as the Composi-Tight® 3D Sectional Matrix System, supplies its products directly to the dentist through select distributors in Europe. For further information please contact Garrison Dental Solutions Office Europe by phone +49 2451 971 409, via email info@garrisondental.net or your preferred Dental Dealer. UCL Eastman researcher wins prestigious Fellowship for work on cranio-facial deformities The UCL Eastman Dental Institute is pleased to announce the award of a two-year Fellowship by the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England to researcher, Rishma Shah, Lecturer in Orthodontics at the Institute. The prestigious award will support Miss Shah’s ongoing research, begun during her postgraduate studies, into the creation of in vitro craniofacial skeletal muscle tissue for use in the development of novel therapies to treat cranio-facial deformities such as cleft lip and palate, with the ultimate aim of providing tissue for use in facial implants to replace muscle tissue deficiencies. Currently, there are a number of limitations to conventional therapies used to treat patients with craniofacial deformities, including donor site morbidity and the failure of transplanted tissue to restore a defective site adequately It is anticipated that the Fellowship grant will allow Rishma to find a suitable way of integrating biologically engineered cranio-facial muscle with tendon and bone attachments, which would provide a valuable contribution to the field. For more details about the UCL Eastman Dental Institute, please visit www.eastman.ucl.ac.uk or telephone 020 7915 1038 AMD Picasso Laser Multi-tip and Bleaching Handpiece Kit The team at Velopex are delighted to announce the introduction, into stock of the latest multi-tip and bleaching handpiece from AMD Lasers. This new, easy to fit, accessory allows you to maximise the use of your Picasso laser. The new, fully sheathed fibre, can be wound onto the supplied spool and easily interchanged with the one supplied with your Picasso laser. The handpiece comes with a protective blue cover, which can be easily removed and replaced with a single use special tip. These disposable tips eliminate the cutting and stripping of the fibre and ensure that all you have to do pre-use, is initiate the fibre on the black spot on the disposable tip packaging. The Kit includes: • Fully Sheathed optical fiber with Picasso Laser connector • Bleaching Handpiece • Fiber spool • Protective cap • 5 x assorted disposable tips (sample pack) This kit is priced at £375.00 + VAT and available now Tips are available as follows: 25 pack assorted disposable tips 400 micron (5 x 45° 5mm, 5 x 45° 10mm, 5 x 90° 5mm, 5 x 90° 10mm, 5 x straight 5mm) priced at: £95.00 + VAT per pack Supported in the UK by Velopex Alkapharm Ultra-Wipes‘expert’. Multi Purpose extra large/strong antibacterial wipes Extra Large - Super Strong saturated wet wipes For the thorough Cleaning & Disinfection of all non-porous surfaces including dental chairs, furniture & equipment in one simple operation. Ultra-Wipes expert offers the perfect solution for the cleaning & disinfection of all non-porous surfaces quickly & efficiently. Antibacterial activity is triggered on application. No rinsing is required as treated areas dry quickly leaving all surfaces thoroughly clean &‘streak free’ Alkapharm Ultra-Wipes ‘expert’ are available from all good dental wholesalers in distinctive re-sealable flow-packs, each pack contains 20 extra large/strong saturated antibacterial cleaning wipes. www.alkapharm.co.uk KaVo ESTETICA E50: Simple to use. Simple to expand. Simply more reliable The new KaVo ESTETICA E50 treatment centre simply offers more comfort to make your working day easier. The E50 allows KaVo, the leading equipment supplier to close the gap between the time-proven Primus 1058 and the ESTETICA E70, whilst defining and occupying a new market segment. The E50 offers: intuitive user-interfaces of the dentist and assistant element, featuring direct selection buttons, for ease of use. The freely-selectable handpiece configuration on the dentist element has the option of 5 or 6 handpiece holders, providing essential flexibility today and in the future. The design minimises recesses making all surfaces hygienic and easy to clean, with removable components for easy disinfection/sterilisation. Panels are sealed or close-fitting, preventing dirt and debris entering the treatment centre.The automatic HYDROclean function ensures the continuing operability of your unit. For information regarding the full range of KaVo products, Freephone 0800 218020.