SprintRay, Inc. is proud to announce the release of three new 3D printing resins designed specifically for dental production:

-Die & Model 2 Gray

-Die & Model 2 Tan

-Study Model White

With reduced odor, improved adhesion to the build plate, and better mechanical properties, these resins are incredibly easy to work with and produce stunning, consistent results for all manner of models, from waxups to aligner models.

With reduced odor, improved adhesion to the build plate, and better mechanical properties, these resins are incredibly easy to work with and produce stunning, consistent results for all manner of models, from waxups to aligner models.

Building on the success of the company's prior Die & Model material formulations, the new resins feature targeted improvements over their predecessors that are designed to improve the efficiency of the dental 3D printing workflow. These new resins will begin shipping early September.

Die & Model 2 Tan and Gray

The new Die & Model 2 resins feature a reduced odor, improved mechanical properties, virtually no pigment settling, and improved color. Since Die & Model resins are frequently used for the production of clear aligner devices, the material has been specifically designed to be easier to separate from thermoforming materials. Die & Model 2 resins are faster than the outgoing material, with increased print speeds of around 10% for most print jobs.

Study Model White

Study Model White draws on all of the same improvements as Die & Model 2 materials. Additionally, this all-new resin provides a rapid, accurate option for 3D printing models for case presentation and education - a growing practice among technology-savvy dentists - and helps doctors communicate the value of restorative and aesthetic procedures in a new, innovative way.

"The success of our Die & Model resins came down to their speed, reliability, and accuracy," Amir Mansouri, CEO of SprintRay, said. "Die & Model 2 and Study Model White build on this great foundation. Thanks to the continuous input from our community of users, we've been able to target development areas that will have the biggest impact on day-to-day clinical use. These changes will help empower a whole new wave of adoption of 3D printing in dentistry, breaking down barriers to entry by improving the user experience."

About SprintRay

SprintRay is a leader in the dental 3D printing space, combining user-friendly design with highly functional tools for in-office production. 2019 saw the release of the transformational SprintRay Pro 3D printer and Pro Cure post-processing unit which catapulted the company to the forefront of dental 3D printing. The company sets itself apart with total alignment around one goal: to help dental professionals use 3D printing to revolutionize dentistry.

Kerr Dental announces the launch of SimpliShadeTM Universal Composite, the newest addition to its Simplicity line of products. With just three shades (Light, Medium, and Dark), SimpliShade matches all 16 VITA® Classical shades to streamline restoration workflows and inventory management for busy practices. SimpliShade is also powered by Adaptive Response Technology (ART), the same proven technology found in Harmonize™, for lifelike restorations with exceptional strength and esthetics.

“Doctors are confronting a wide range of challenges right now and are looking for ways to help simplify and streamline their practices without compromising patient care and results,” explains Lea Pagaduan, Marketing Manager at Kerr Dental. “SimpliShade three-shade composite covers all 16 VITA shades, making it faster and easier to match shades. This helps accelerate chair time so patients can get in and out of the operatory faster. That’s good for the patient as well as the practitioner.”

By reducing the number of shades, SimpliShade also helps streamline inventory management requirements. “Because of changes brought about by COVID-19, doctors are focused on securing PPE and infection-prevention items they need to practice safely,” says Pagaduan. “By reducing the amount of product needed for shade-matching, SimpliShade saves doctors significant time stocking shelves, re-ordering, and keeping track of expired products. It also declutters storage space and makes more room for items that are critical to patient and staff safety.”

Along with simplified workflows and inventory management, SimpliShade delivers the performance and results doctors want and patients expect. “Yes, doctors appreciate simplicity, but they also need a product that delivers excellent strength,” says Kerr Dental Senior Product Manager Christine Schuesler. “SimpliShade meets those demands on both fronts. It also outperforms other leading brands when it comes to resisting chipping and wear.”

“While strength is important to doctors, so are esthetics,” adds Schuesler. “With optimal opacity, SimpliShade mimics tooth structure to better mask underlying tooth stains and blend more seamlessly with surrounding dentition. This results in a more lifelike restoration.” She adds that comparisons show SimpliShade offers better blending than competing brands with no blocker needed.

With the time savings, increased workflow efficiencies, reduced inventory management, and high performance, SimpliShade provides a cost-effective solution for practices facing today’s unique challenges. SimpliShade will be available to order starting August 24, 2020. To learn more, visit Go.Kerrdental.com/SimpliShade.  

Ten Massachusetts dentists have been recognized as the 2020 “10 Under Ten” by the Massachusetts Dental Society (MDS). Established by the MDS in 2005, the annual 10 Under Ten list highlights new dentists in Massachusetts and their diverse impacts on the dental profession. To qualify for the recognition, dentists must have graduated from dental school within the past 10 years, be an MDS member, and have made significant contributions to the profession, their community, and organized dentistry.

The 10 Under Ten honorees are featured in the Spring 2020 issue of the Journal of the Massachusetts Dental Society. The dentists were honored earlier this year at the Yankee Dental Congress® 2020 (Yankee) Awards Ceremony at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. Yankee is New England’s largest dental meeting and is presented by the MDS in cooperation with the dental societies of Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

This year’s honorees are:

Lea El Hachem, DDS, CAGS, MS, a periodontist who has since relocated to Texas

Matthew Freitas, DMD, a pediatric dentist practicing in Reading and Winchester

Michael Golub, DMD, an orthodontist practicing in New Jersey after completing an orthodontics residency in Boston

Ana Keohane, DDS, DMD, FICD, a general dentist practicing in Boston, Everett, and Wellesley

Luri Lee, DMD, CAGS, a general dentist practicing in Boston and Seekonk

James E. Lee, DMD, a general dentist practicing in Malden

Sabina Malla, DDS, a general dentist practicing in Fall River

Claire A. McCarthy, DMD, a general dentist practicing in Norwood and Quincy

Richard Senatore, DMD, FAGD, FICOI, a general dentist practicing in Boston and Stoneham

Christopher Jacob Ward, DMD, a general dentist practicing in Quincy

The Massachusetts Dental Society (MDS), a professional association representing 5,000-plus member dentists and a statewide constituent of the American Dental Association, is dedicated to the professional development of its member dentists through initiatives in education, advocacy, the promotion of the highest professional standards, and championing oral health in the Commonwealth. For more information, visit massdental.org, and follow the MDS on Twitter @MassDental.

Fifteen minutes per patient.1,000 professional hours per day. With the launch of a new digital patient check-in experience, that’s the reduction in administrative time across Aspen Dental’s network of 820 plus offices. The time is directly invested in one-to-one time with the more than 4,500 new patients seen across the network daily.

At first thought, fifteen minutes may feel insignificant, but the impact for patients is big. The benefits go beyond time savings and efficiency, cutting down waiting room time amidst patients’ growing expectation for digital care with the new ‘COVID-19’ normal that is reshaping healthcare experience. But more importantly, the shift reduces administrative time for clinical teams, and increases the value-add time providers get to spend with each patient, ultimately providing an even better in-chair experience.

Aspen Dental, with support from Aspen Dental Management, Inc. (ADMI), is the first large scale dental office network to offer a consistent on line and digital check-in experience, which rolled out across the network in June.

A case for comfort

Remember your last experience as a new patient, at the dentist or with a traditional health provider. First visits are usually based on a treatment need that includes pain. Mix that discomfort with nerves, and the prospect of filling out half a dozen paper forms has little appeal. The idea of paperwork becomes exponentially less appealing in the middle of a global pandemic, when experts say the less time we spend in waiting rooms, the better off we are.

By comparison, it is much more attractive to go to an appointment and provide the office’s Patient Service Representative (PSR) with a driver’s license and insurance card. The simple exchange means patients can arrive on time, not early, and wait in the car to limit patient waiting and encourage social distancing.

Efficient. Safe. Familiar.

For quite some time, before an appointment, patients coming to the Aspen Dental network for care have had the option to complete their patient intake forms at www.AspenDental.com. Despite the availability, historically less than 25% of new patients did this homework. Instead on average, care teams have labored to manually enter a patient’s information, including the dentist, taking up to 15 minutes per patient and 1,000 cumulative hours in practice network each day.

Fast forward to present day. The workflow is streamlined when the PSR scans the driver’s license and insurance card and in ten seconds, the information is uploaded into the patient file and safely stored in Aspen Dental’s digitally secure practice management system.

From there, the patient gets an iPad and in about three minutes, confirms the accuracy of their information and approves it with a signature on-screen. The iPad follows the patient to the treatment room, where the dental assistant and dentist complete the patient’s medical history in a one-to-one setting where care teams connect and get to know each patient.

So far patients and staff have welcomed the paperless process, which is similar to best practices that are becoming common across traditional healthcare experience. The virtual process is also akin to digital technology patients use in their daily lives— from banking, to dining to retail.

Back to business: Digital check-in is just the beginning

As communities begin to apply what we have all learned from the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis, we know that dentistry – like most aspects of life – must change to better protect patients and care teams. As social distancing and virtual versus face-to-face lifestyles become cultural norms, there is even greater potential for digital transformation and artificial intelligence in the patient’s dental journey.

Electronic check-in is one of many digital enablers ADMI plans to offer across the Aspen Dental network. Between March and June when state and local guidance limited dental care to emergency only procedures, ADMI implemented a virtual care offering to enable greater access to patient care. Today, in all 41 states where Aspen Dental has offices, patients can consult with a licensed dentist to determine whether in-office treatment is needed.

Likewise, a digital charting and notes system already enables greater continuity in care, while a pilot to bring AI enabled voice-activated perio-charting system to all offices will help patients better understand their proposed treatment plans.

Down the road, facial recognition technologies, along with digital billing & payment, have the potential to make patient check-in and check-out simpler and more secure, digitally and with regard to infectious disease protocol.

Aspen Dental exists to provide care for all—removing friction that often prevents patients from getting the treatment they need. ADMI takes care of dental professionals who care for their patients and we are proud of our growing technology leadership in the healthcare industry. It is improving every aspect of the patient experience, from check-in to chair, at a time when patients expect nothing less and look to us for more.

Yogish Suvarna (YSuvarna@aspendental.com) is Chief Information Officer at Aspen Dental Management Inc. (ADMI), one of the largest and fastest-growing dental support organizations (DSO) in the U.S., supporting the Aspen Dental network of more than 820 offices in 41 states.

MouthWatch, LLC, a leader in innovative teledentistry solutions, digital case presentation tools and intraoral imaging devices, was recently awarded a 2020 Cellerant Best of Class Award for its professional grade teledentistry platform, TeleDent™.

According to MouthWatch founder and CEO, Brant Herman, “We’re deeply honored and appreciative to be recognized by the renowned panel of Cellerant judges for TeleDent™, our provider-focused, patient-friendly teledentistry solution. Although TeleDent was selected for the Best of Class Award back in February, more recently it has been proving itself to be indispensable dental technology in the new normal of COVID-19.”

TeleDent was designed to put dentists in the driver’s seat for sharing patient data, clinical information, and intraoral images and videos in real-time or via store and forward technology. The cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant software enhances referrals, oral health screenings, clinician/patient consultations and collaboration between GPs and specialists, group practice locations, and hygienists working under remote supervision. With TeleDent, dentists in public health and private practice settings can reach new patients, increase production, and elevate the standard of care. Watch a quick TeleDent overview.

“Announcing the award winners is especially meaningful this year,” said Dr. Lou Shuman, CEO of Cellerant and founder of the Best of Class Technology Awards. "The Chicago Midwinter, where the Best of Class Panel selected the award winners, was really the last in person event for the dental community in 2020. Dentists and their staffs, as well as these companies have overcome many unbelievable challenges since then. So, it’s exciting and uplifting to change the narrative for a moment by recognizing these deserving award winners and sharing these amazing technologies with our colleagues.”

About MouthWatch LLC:

Headquartered in Metuchen, New Jersey, MouthWatch, LLC is a leader in innovative teledentistry solutions, digital case presentation tools and intraoral imaging devices. The company is dedicated to finding new ways to constantly improve the dental health experience for both patient and provider.

In 2020, the company received the following awards and accolades: The 2020 Cellerant Best of Class Award for TeleDent™, the provider-focused, patient-friendly teledentistry platform; TeleDent also won Dentistry Today’s 2020 Top Innovative Products Award and the affordable / high quality MouthWatch Intraoral Camera was awarded the Dentistry Today Top 100 Products Award. MouthWatch was also ranked #1303 in the 2020 Inc. 5000 list of the Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies. For more information, visit www.MouthWatch.com.

About the Cellerant Best of Class Technology Award:

Since the inaugural presentation in 2009, the Best of Class Technology Awards have grown to occupy a unique space in dentistry by creating awareness to the dental community what technologies and products of the thousands available can truly impact how practices will operate now and in the future.

The selection process relies on an expert panel of dentists recognized as thought leaders and educators. It includes, Dr. John Flucke, Dr. Marty Jablow, Dr. Paul Feuerstein, Dr. Chris Salierno, Dr. Pamela Maragliano-Muniz, and Dr. Lou Shuman. Over the course of each year, the panel members seek out and conduct research on potentially practice-changing technologies, with deliberations on nominees and final voting taking place in February. Panelists are precluded from voting in any category where they have consulting relationships. The entire selection process is conducted and managed on a not-for-profit basis. For more information go to cellerantconsulting.com/bestofclass.

Apteryx Imaging, a subsidiary of Planet DDS, is pleased to announce that XVWeb cloud imaging has been selected as a 2020 Cellerant Best of Class Technology Award recipient for the “Dental Imaging Software” category. This is the second consecutive year that XVWeb has been recognized with the Best of Class Technology Award.

“Announcing the award winners is especially meaningful this year,” said Dr. Lou Shuman, CEO of Cellerant and founder of the Best of Class Technology Awards. "The Chicago Midwinter, where the Best of Class Panel selected the award winners, was really the last in person event for the dental community in 2020. Dentists and their staffs, as well as these companies have overcome many unbelievable challenges since then. So, it’s exciting and uplifting to change the narrative for a moment by recognizing these deserving award winners and sharing these amazing technologies with our colleagues.”

XVWeb is the industry’s leading cloud dental imaging solution, delivering state-of-the-art clinical image capture, visualization, analysis, backup and secure data sharing as a cost-effective SaaS (software-as-a-service) subscription. XVWeb subscribers can access their 2D and 3D clinical image database 24 hours per day, 7 days per week from compatible web-connected devices, including tablets and smartphones. Enhanced security and off-site backup ensure the safety of patient data and HIPAA compliance. XVWeb’s cloud technology also provides efficient, HIPAA-compliant sharing of 2D and 3D patient images between healthcare providers, greatly improving the efficiency of case collaboration in comparison to premise-based software systems. Finally, XVWeb’s open-architecture design allows for integration with all practice management solutions and compatibility with all major brands of imaging devices.

“Cloud computing is continuing to drive technological change in dental imaging applications and XVWeb is at the forefront of that movement,” stated Patrick Williams, director of operations for Apteryx Imaging. “Our entire team is extremely proud that XVWeb has again been recognized by the Best of Class committee as a stand-out solution among its peers.”

“Winning a Best of Class Award says a lot about the recipient’s ability to innovate and establish category leadership,” said Pam Maragliano-Muniz, DMD, Cellerant Best of Class panel member. “In any given year, the panel may skip a category if there’s no standout technology. To be chosen a product must be truly exceptional.” The 2020 Cellerant Best of Class Technology Award is selected by a panel of the most prominent technology leaders in dentistry: John Flucke, DDS, technology editor and chief dental editor for Dental Products Report, Marty Jablow, DMD, known as America’s dental technology coach, Paul Feuerstein, technology editor for Dentistry Today, Pamela Maragliano-Muniz, DMD, chief editor of Dentistry IQ and editorial director of DACE, Chris Salierno, DDS, Chief Editor of Dental Economics, and Lou Shuman, DMD, CAGS, founder and creator of the Best of Class Technology Award with national columns on technology in Dental Economics, Dental Products Report, and Canada’s Oral Health journals.

Chris Koch, director of marketing for Apteryx, concluded, “To be recognized as Best of Class by a panel comprised by many of the top thought leaders in dental technology is an honor that the Apteryx team can take great pride in. We are very thankful to have XVWeb included among the top technologies in our industry.”

For more information on Apteryx and XVWeb, please visit www.apteryx.com.

About Apteryx Imaging Inc.

Apteryx Imaging, a subsidiary of Planet DDS, has provided dentists and oral health specialists with advanced diagnostic imaging software and device technologies for over 20 years. Apteryx's proprietary technologies include XrayVision, XVWeb and XrayVision DCV imaging software solutions, the VELscope Vx Enhanced Oral Assessment and TUXEDO Intraoral Sensors.

Backed by an experienced leadership team and dedicated to a higher level of service and support, Apteryx is committed to providing dental practitioners with the best technology available by identifying and adding leading products to its growing portfolio.

For more information about Apteryx, its products and services, please visit www.apteryx.com or call 877-278-3799.

About Planet DDS

Planet DDS is the largest independent provider of cloud-native practice management software to the dental industry. The company's flagship product, Denticon, is the only proven, time-tested software offering that was built from the ground up for multi-location groups in the cloud. Denticon has the largest footprint among emerging and established dental groups of any cloud software provider, allowing clients to break free from the constraints of desktop software with a comprehensive solution that includes the tools needed to standardize, centralize, and grow. All while reducing IT cost and enhancing security. Learn more about Denticon at www.planetdds.com. Planet DDS is a portfolio company of Level Equity Management, LLC.

The Compo-Brushes, developed with Styleitaliano, are intended for composite staining.

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