Renfert has introduced a new support arm for its Mobiloscope microscopes.

The new 360° swivel-mounted support arm allows a single microscope to be utilized from several workplaces for detail control and precision work. The popular-selling 5–10 times magnification model provides maximum precision with distortion-free vision coupled with uniform sharpness in the entire viewing field. The optimized and timeless support arm for the Mobiloscope S now comes with three hinges, which can be adjusted and fixed to any position. In addition, it also has an integrated power cable for LED lighting.

The new support arm is retained using a screw clamp for bench tops of 18–74mm (0.71–2.92 inches), or can also be screw retained.

Attleboro, MA – Sterngold now offers Implant Analogs for most popular implant systems. The analogs are made out of stainless steel and are used by the laboratory when making a model.

The analogs replicate the position and the prosthetic platform of the implant. To order or for more information, please visit www.sterngold.com or call 800-243-9942.

PITTSTON, PA — With the introduction of Roland’s DWX-4 Compact Dental Mill, Benco Dental has announced its partnership with Roland DGA Corp. The DWX-4 is expected to complement Benco’s OneVisit™ solution for chairside dentistry.

Benco Dental, the fastest growing privately-owned dental distributor in the country, will combine the Roland DWX-4 Compact Dental Mill with the Glidewell FastDesign^® Software, considered one of the easiest to use software platforms for chairside applications. The DWX-4 is a dry milling dental prosthetic solution, based on open architecture, for seamless integration with a variety of popular scanning systems.

Capable of unattended 4-axis milling, the DWX-4 offers the smallest footprint of any mill in the industry. The two-bur mill delivers a polished-looking restoration using nano-ceramic materials such as Lava™ Ultimate Restorative from 3M™ ESPE™. Final polishing takes only minutes before a crown is ready for bonding.

This new addition to the One Visit™ solution from Benco Dental affords several investment levels for dental offices desiring to move into digital dentistry to enhance their revenues, as well as increase patient satisfaction. The DWX-4, with the accompanying vacuum, provides a chairside milling solution, without software, for $20,000. Complete with the True Definition Scanner™ from 3M, along with the Glidewell design station, the DWX-4 provides an affordable, quick-turnaround solution under $48,000 for routine single-unit restorations.

For more information, visit benco.com or call 1.800.GO.BENCO.

Irvine, California – Roland DGA has announced the release of its new digital dentistry white paper, “e.max Press vs. e.max CAD – A Comparison.” The informative document, complete with detailed charts and images, includes in-depth comparative analysis of the e.max Press and e.max CAD restoration processes, providing expert insight and clinical data to help labs choose the best production method, materials, and equipment for this popular application. Lithium disilicate is one of the most prescribed materials for dental restorations. IPS e.max by Ivoclar is a common type of lithium disilicate and many dental laboratory technicians believe that wet grinding this material is the best way to produce e.max restorations. 

Roland’s white paper, which can be downloaded for free at https://www.rolanddga.com/solutions/dental/whitepaper/, explains why wet milling is not the only production platform well suited for performing e.max dental restorations and why laboratories should consider milling wax and pressing e.max for greater versatility, increased precision, simplified workflow, and lower operational costs.

In addition to the white paper on e.max restoration, Roland has published a new, informative technology brief, “Advantages of Roland DWX Digital Dental Prosthesis Production.”  The tech brief includes an overview of digital dental milling, detailed information on the benefits of Roland’s revolutionary DWX-50 and DWX-4 series mills, analysis of the ROI that labs can expect to achieve using these advanced devices, customer testimonials, and more. To download the tech brief, click here.

“Roland is committed not only to developing innovative products that are helping to usher in a new era of digital dentistry, but also to providing useful data and that helps labs make better-informed purchasing decisions,” said Brian Brooks, Roland DGA’s dental solutions product manager.

For more information on Roland’s innovative DWX series digital dental milling machines, visit www.rolanddga.com/products/milling/dwxseries.

Andover, Massachusetts – Global dental implant company Straumann celebrates its 25-year anniversary in the United States this month, marking the occasion with weeklong festivities at the Straumann North American Headquarters in Andover, Massachusetts. Straumann will commemorate this special occasion on Friday, October 10, when the organization will honor some of the most tenured customers in the United States, who will join the celebration. 

In 1989, Straumann opened a two-person US office based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, bringing Straumann dental implants to the US marketing. The operation later moved to Waltham, Massachusetts, with a training and education facility in Newport, California, before settling in the Andover headquarters. 

Straumann’s North American Headquarters in Andover officially opened its doors in June 2005 – combining training, education, marketing, manufacturing, and customer service under one roof to offer the highest quality of products and services. In addition to its corporate office and a state-of-the-art training center, the Andover facility is the proud home to Straumann’s first and only manufacturing site outside of its landmark facility in Villeret, Switzerland. The 80,000 square-foot Andover manufacturing floor employs more than 100 machinists, technicians, and inspectors who manufacture implants and components for global distribution. The Straumann North American operation now consists of more than 300 employees with a field sales team of over 200 across the United States and Canada. 

Today, Straumann is the No. 1 dental implant company worldwide. Over the past 25 years, Straumann North American has seen exponential growth in revenue, back office operations and sales. Beyond expanding its sales force and revenue, Straumann has continuously delivered some of the most advanced surgical, restorative, regenerative and digital dentistry technologies to the US market. 

Irwin, PA – Albensi Dental Laboratories, Inc. has been selected as one of Pittsburgh’s Top Workplaces.

The Top Workplaces are determined based solely on employee feedback. The employee survey is conducted by WorkplaceDynamics, LLP, a leading research firm on organizational health and employee engagement.

Albensi Dental Laboratory provides a whole gamut of benefits and perks for its employees and recently moved into a newly constructed 30,000-square-foot laboratory that has a 3,000-square-foot workout facility including locker rooms, saunas, and showers for the employees to use free of charge. The building also has a cafeteria with a full kitchen where local chefs will be offering breakfasts and lunches for a nominal fee. Albensi Dental Laboratory also holds an annual company picnic at a local amusement park for the employees and their families with a Chinese auction and catered lunch along with a first class holiday party in December.

“It’s the Golden Rule: Treat others the way you’d like to be treated,” says Chief Operating Officer Don Albensi. “For the new facility and our business, anything I’d like for myself in a workplace, I’m going to have here for everyone. It is an honor to be recognized by our employees for the efforts we make to ensure this is an exceptionally great place to work!”

For more information about the Top Workplaces lists and WorkplaceDynamics, visit www.topworkplaces.com and www.workplacedynamics.com.

North Haven, Conn. – Jensen Dental is experiencing what they are referring to as an InSync ‘Glaze Craze’ among their customers. A recent campaign focus on their InSync Glaze product revealed that laboratory technicians are excited over the ease of use and life-like results InSync Glaze is helping them achieve. 

Jensen’s Sales and Marketing team recently conducted a multi-channel customer outreach program to answer questions, offer tips and ensure customers were achieving the beautiful results, simply and efficiently, that the InSync Glaze paste was designed to achieve. Here are some of the responses they received: 

“Home run on this product. Awesome results with predictability and consistency. GREAT job!” - Jeff Singler, Singler Dental Lab 

“InSync Glaze is easy to handle, and so is the stain. Other brands can puddle, especially if you put it on thick. With the InSync Stain & Glaze system, your crowns become life-like and colors are heightened – close to a natural tooth color!” - Dan Feidt, Harrison Dental Lab 

“What I love about InSync Glaze is that I can use it straight from the jar. It fires smooth with no bubbles on the occlusal and is a great price! I highly recommend it!” - Michael DeSimone, Dental Ceramics Inc. 

InSync Glaze is part of a stain & glaze system offering an efficient method for staining and glazing full contour, layered zirconia and layered titanium restorations. Visit www.precisodental.com/insync for more information. 

Amherst, NY - Ivoclar Vivadent has introduced its “IPS e.max Lab Finder,” a new resource available at www.ivoclarvivadent.com to help dentists locate one of the more than 6,000 laboratories in North America currently using the clinically proven IPS e.max all-ceramic system. Created in response to the overwhelming demand from dentists to easily identify laboratories that can fabricate IPS e.max crowns, inlays, onlays, thin veneers, abutments, and bridges, the “IPS e.max Lab Finder” enables dentists to work with laboratories already skilled in utilizing IPS e.max materials to ensure the best possible results for the patients. 

From the www.ivoclarvivadent.com homepage, simply clicking on the “IPS e.max Lab Finder” icon brings dentists to a search page, where they can identify laboratories either by name or by location. Selecting “Search By Location” takes the dentist to a map of their geographic area, underneath which is a list of the closest IPS e.max laboratories within 10, 50, and 100 miles (or kilometers) from which to choose. Selecting “Search By Name” allows the dentist to choose the state and type in the name of their current laboratory to see if it utilizes IPS e.max. 

Considering that the vast majority of cases today can be restored with IPS e.max—including single-unit posterior crowns—it behooves dentists to consult with their laboratory to see if they utilize IPS e.max and, if they don’t, to be able to easily identify a nearby laboratory that does. With the new “IPS e.max Lab Finder” tool, dentists can easily find the best dental laboratory to partner with to deliver great-looking and durable restorations for their patients.

Garfield Heights, Ohio - The National Association of Dental Laboratories (NADL) has announced that ROE Dental Laboratory in Garfield Heights, Ohio, is the most recent dental laboratory to receive DAMAS accreditation in North America.

The DAMAS (Dental Appliance Manufacturers Audit System) is an internationally recognized process on quality assurance and manufacturing practices specifically developed for commercial dental laboratories. Achieving DAMAS accreditation requires passing a third party audit inspection and takes considerable investment by a laboratory operation to implement the comprehensive standards and requirements of the system. Forward-thinking laboratories go through the process of implementation to improve their manufacturing operations as well as to ensure better documentation and case handling of dental patient cases prescribed by dentists.

Less than 1% of dental laboratories in North America have been recognized as DAMAS accredited. The process was established originally in the United Kingdom and now is in place in Europe, Asia, and Australia in addition to North America.

“For our organization and the many dentists and patients we service, we are pleased to have met the DAMAS and FDA standard of excellence, traceability, and continuous improvement for quality and manufacturing practices (“cGMP”). Our clients are assured that ROE is a compliant laboratory that adheres to a universal standard of management practices; that our entire supply chain is held to the same standard; and that all our restorations are produced under the highest dental industry standards throughout the entire manufacturing process,” said ROE President B.J. Kowalski.

The DAMAS process is administered through the National Association of Dental Laboratories, which is a trade association representing commercial dental laboratories. NADL is the unified voice for the dental laboratory industry, supporting the dental profession and serving the public interest by promoting high standards.

ANDOVER, Massachusetts – Straumann® has announced the portfolio expansion of its popular Scan & Shape Service for dental laboratories to include new CARES® Milled and Basic Fixed Bar Solutions. These bars offer ideal restorations for fully edentulous patients and provide treatment flexibility on implant level or abutment level restorations and individual customization.

The Straumann CARES Milled Bar offers a direct connection to implants and delivers a one-piece solution milled to your specifications. The Straumann CARES Basic Fixed Bar has a sandblasted surface to save time with no visible metal and can be wrapped in acrylic, allowing for reline if desired.  CARES Basic Fixed Bar is a cost efficient alternative to a ceramic veneered bridge and an ideal fixed solution for ongoing tissue management. These new offerings will allow dental laboratories to stay competitive in today’s market by providing innovative implant borne solutions through a broader spectrum of product and material solutions that optimize workflows and allow them to adapt to the speed of technology.

The Straumann® CARES® screw-retained bars and bridges (SRBB) portfolio featuring the original Straumann implant connection enable dental labs to offer Straumann quality precision and mechanical performance to their customers for reliable Straumann implant platform restorations – without the need of additional abutments and without any changes to current workflow.  Offering excellent flexibility, fit and accessibility options, Straumann’s SRBB portfolio provides a solution to help dental labs stay competitive in today’s fastest growing market segment.

Steve Sheehan, Vice President of Straumann’s Lab Division North America, commented: “According to the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, there are more than 30 million Americans that are missing all their teeth in one or both jaws.  Dental laboratories need to be able to restore these cases with the functionality, esthetics and long-term stability today’s patients demand. Scan & Shape gives every dental laboratory access to original CARES bar solutions.  We are very pleased to address our customers’ needs with new bar designs and additional fixed edentulous solutions – that will give labs the opportunity to provide economical, efficient and high quality solutions.”

The Scan & Shape Service is for dental laboratories that do not own a CAD/CAM system but want to facilitate design of original Straumann CARES restorations for their referring clinicians.  Technicians submit a wax-up abutment or traditional stone model to the Arlington, TX facility where CDTs scan the information and send the digital design file back to the laboratory for approval prior to milling.  Scan & Shape expanded earlier in 2014 to include an Online Service for ordering, editing, and file sharing for Customized Abutments. SRBB will be added to the Online Service at a later date.