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Full steam ahead for Australia’s best digital dentistry event June 3-6, 2022
Digital Dentistry and Dental Technology 2022 is a month away and registrations continue to grow for the 2-day face-to-face conference. The event is being held on Friday, June 3 and Saturday, June 4 at the Novotel Sydney Brighton Beach and if you haven’t registered already, then don’t miss this great experience (and early bird rates still apply).
Digital Dentistry and Dental Technology 2022 brings dentists and specialists, technicians and prosthetists together in a single program, as it should be.
Digital Dentistry and Dental Technology 2022 offers every delegate access to more than 80 session choices over two days that allows you to build your own program based on your needs.
There is no need to register for any session, you can choose your program ahead of time, on the day or minute-by-minute.
Access to real knowledge
The interactive nature of Digital Dentistry and Dental Technology 2022 means that you have unprecedented access to real knowledge and experience from over 40 speakers who are immersed in the digital workflow every day and the hundreds of delegates who share the same challenges you do.
Stellar line-up of speakers
This year, we welcome a stellar and still growing line-up of speaking talent, both favourites from past editions as well as many new faces with knowledge and experience to share. From clinicians and technicians, inventors, product and software developers, don’t miss this unique all access educational opportunity.
This year, we’re also continuing with the workshop stream including the opportunity to try scanning with all the latest intraoral scanners, all in one room, plus other workshops teaching, for example, stain and glaze techniques for monolithic restorations.
Whether you’re a dentist, prosthetist or technician, whether your interests are in products like intraoral scanners, 3D printers, mills or solutions for digital dentures, orthodontics, implants or endo, this program will give you the opportunity to learn and explore.
Digital Dentistry and Dental Technology 2022 is designed to be a fun learning experience. Located adjacent to the Sydney domestic airport, the Novotel Sydney Brighton Beach is an ideal venue - easy to fly-in or easy to park. Accommodation is available and full catering is provided.
To view the growing programme of education sessions or to register, visit at www.dentaltechnology.com.au.
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A new look and feel for the future: Ivoclar Group updates visual identity
For the Ivoclar Group, one of the world’s leading providers of integrated solutions for high-quality dental applications with a comprehensive product and system portfolio for dentists and dental technicians, values, convictions and a progressive, customeroriented corporate culture are the basis of its strong brand. For almost 100 years, the company, headquartered in Schaan, Liechtenstein, has been shaping the dental market with its name, product innovations and industry-leading pioneering achievements. Working with dental professionals to give people around the world a healthy and beautiful smile is the company’s stated mission. Already started in 2021, Ivoclar set new accents with targeted activities that are even more strongly focused on the needs of the customer. In order to visually underline the new departure into a customer-oriented, modern and innovative age, Ivoclar is starting the new year with a fresh appearance and an adapted logo. The most important change: the “Vivadent” in the brand name and logo has been dropped, as have some additional visual elements, so that in future, the company’s clear focus on the essentials will also be reflected in the logo.
The brand as a guiding principle
With its focus on putting people, partners and customers at the center of its activities, Ivoclar underpins its claim to make the workflows in the daily work of dental technicians and dentists easier and more efficient and likewise to make the patient experience as pleasant and personal as possible. The brand image is and remains a first point of contact with the company. This is precisely why it is so important that the brand’s appearance also serves the function of a mission statement and reflects the innovative strength that is lived out. At Ivoclar, the external understanding of the brand rests on three supporting pillars:
1. Partnership and customer
People, partners and customers are the focus of the daily actions and activities. The brand stands out with a straightforward design and consistent communication to the customer.
2. Innovation and technology
Ivoclar stands for progress through technological innovation. This carries the company’s mission: “Making People Smile”. Innovation, progress and continuous research and development, based on the needs of customers, ensure the success of tomorrow in the long term. With innonot least, the development and use of modern marketing tools pay directly into the mission “Making People Smile”. It is only logical that the logo has now also been redesigned. The most striking feature is the reduction of the brand name to its essential component: “Ivoclar Vivadent” becomes “Ivoclar”. And even here, the consistent orientation towards the customer is evident, because many of Ivoclar’s business partners have long since dispensed with the suffix “Vivadent” in their daily usage.
“With our long-standing tradition, our pioneering achievements and our constant innovation, we can rely on a strong corporate brand as a foundation”, explains Diego
vative products and services, Ivoclar not only makes dental technicians’ and dentists’ workflows easier and more efficient, but also makes the patient experience shine positively.
3. Family and friends
The Ivoclar Group is a family-owned company with heart and soul: reliability, transparency and communication at eye level are the basis of a good partnership - whether towards customers, employees or patients, who are all considered together as part of the Ivoclar family.
Focus on the essentials - the new look
Ivoclar already demonstrated a modern, fresh design approach last year with its new website, the appearance at its “The Live Experience Tour 2021” and in other communication areas. The reduction to the essentials, a lifestyle-oriented, emotional visual language that puts people in the foreground and, last but Gabathuler, CEO of the Ivoclar Group. “Nevertheless, I am convinced that there is still a lot of unused potential for us here, which we want to fully exploit in the future. A clearly structured positioning, which is also expressed in the visual appearance, is particularly important with regard to a future-oriented alignment of the company, which leads to the innovation that places our customers and their patients at the centre of our actions and activities. For us, this is not just a matter of giving our logo some tweaks. Rather, the new corporate identity with its clear, reduced and focused visual language represents everything that our brand understanding stands for.”
The new Ivoclar logo and corporate design will be used globally in all communication channels from now on - where this has not yet been incorporated - and will also be gradually applied to brochures and other printed collateral.
For more information, contact Ivoclar in Australia on 1300-IVOCLAR or in New Zealand, call 0508-IVOCLAR or visit www.ivoclar.com
Digital solutions lead the way into the dental practice
Ceramill Direct Restoration Solution (DRS) from Amann Girrbach for interdisciplinary future-oriented collaboration and speedy production
With its new Ceramill Direct Restoration Solution (DRS), Amann Girrbach is extending its integrated digital workflow to the dentist, thus closing the existing communication gap between the dental practice and the laboratory. In this process, both partners contribute their core competencies to provide patients with definitive and functional dentures even more quickly and less complicated - smaller units are also possible on the same day, depending on the local distance between the two partners.
Depending on the type of collaboration desired, three team workflows are available in combination with the corresponding Ceramill DRS Kits. The central basis of these workflows is the new AG.Live digital platform, which offers both an infrastructure and patient case management at a realizable consistency and efficiency previously unattainable. It takes the flow of information and work between the practice and the laboratory to an entirely new level.
Virtual platform AG.Live creates freedom, more efficient processes and greater customer proximity
With AG.Live, Amann Girrbach launched the largest digitisation offensive in the company’s history. This web-based portal for collaboration between laboratories and dentists offers perfect digital services at all levels. To give an example, AG.Live as a central tool for digital case management, a networking, infrastructure and material management, support and knowledge database will gradually replace the previous C3 customer portal. Figure 1. Ceramill DRS.
Figure 2. Amann Girrbach takes interdisciplinary collaboration between the laboratory and the dental practice to a new level with the new DRS product series and the AG.Live digital platform.
Figure 3. The Ceramill Direct Restoration System (DRS) joins dental technicians and practitioners together in an interdisciplinary and future-oriented team and enables easy entry into same-day denture fabrication (Same Day Dentistry).
On the one hand, the platform networks machines and materials in the laboratory, thereby simplifying processes and increasing quality and reproducibility. The biggest advance, however, is providing the link in a growing global network of digitally operating dental professionals. This bridges the interdisciplinary gap between dentists and dental technicians and facilitates future-oriented cooperation. In this network of optimised and new partnerships, the participants can focus on their strengths and better position themselves on the market.
Extending the digital Ceramill CAD/CAM workflow to the dentist
The Ceramill DRS Connection Kit acts as the basic and entry-level variant, with which dentists and laboratories can already take full advantage of digitisation. It consists of the intraoral scanner, the Ceramill Map DRS, the associated scan software and the connection to AG.Live. Any order data including all the required information can therefore be shared seamlessly and in real time with the laboratory. This eliminates the need for handwritten job sheets and conventional impressions. All that is necessary is a single physical transport: getting the restoration to the practice for insertion in the patient’s mouth, even on the same day in case of simple restorations. This leads to a better dental experience for the patient and ultimately attracts new patients to the practice and generates more orders for the laboratory.
And if the preferred material is zirconia, the High-Speed Zirconia Kit, consisting of the Zolid DRS high-speed sintering zirconia and a corresponding Ceramill Therm DRS sintering furnace, can optimally support the laboratory here in fabricating straightforward zirconia restorations on the same day.
To provide patients with dentures even quicker in a further step, the system can be expanded in the dental practice with the Ceramill DRS Production Kit at a later stage. This allows simple restorations to be fabricated in the practice and placed in the patient’s mouth in a single session.
DRS users benefit from a comprehensive range of training and services. Further information on the Ceramill DRS can be found here www.ceramill-drs.com
Free online presentation on Ceramill DRS
In a free online presentation, Amann Girrbach explains why the company places the dental laboratory at the centre of the prosthetic workflow and ensures the highest possible quality and patient satisfaction through close integration and digital exchange with the dentist. The full presentation is available free of charge at https://bit.ly/3gocZZM in various languages.
spectrum | NEWS 3Shape launches 3Shape Unite platform
Connecting dental professionals, technology and services to create digital dentistry workflows that just flow!
3Shape has launched 3Shape Unite – a new open platform that brings world-leading dental companies, solutions and labs together, enabling dentists to manage all their cases with choice and ease - from 3Shape
TRIOS scan to treatment completion.
Included free with every TRIOS®, the
Unite platform allows practitioners to enjoy the freedom to effortlessly manage and expand their digital dentistry via an ever-growing Unite Store app library.
Fully integrated with the multiple award-winning TRIOS intraoral scanner, the Unite platform and apps deliver an intuitive user interface including a simplified lab order form with built-in chat and best in class workflow between the dental practice and over 1000 labs; integrations with 50 plus clear aligner providers and patient management systems and easy-access to patient images - making digital dentistry more straight-forward and accessible than ever.
“3Shape Unite is a tremendous launch for 3Shape! It brings to life our historic vision of giving dentists freedom and open options. It is digital dentistry united under one platform. From labs and treatment solution partners to managing patient care, 3Shape Unite creates workflows that just flow,” says Jakob Just-Bomholt, 3Shape CEO. “For dentists, 3Shape Unite simply and openly connects them to the right dental partners and makes digital dentistry easy, end-to-end.”
In the true spirit of unity and openness, industry leaders Henry Schein, Ivoclar and the Straumann Group, have teamed up with 3Shape as Unite founding partners to launch the platform.
The partnership enables 3Shape Unite users to directly access with optimised integrations Henry Schein’s multiple Practice Management Software solutions, clear orthodontic aligners, implants and restorative solutions; Ivoclar’s dental applications for both dentists and dental technicians; and the Straumann Group’s clear aligner, implant, prosthetic solutions and services.
For dental laboratories, 3Shape Unite provides a platform and directory for them to become more visible to dental practices, market their services with a profile they create and take advantage of an optimised order workflow with practices.
Professionals can access the 3Shape Unite platform from their laptop and TRIOS MOVE via a software update.
By Terry Whitty
Figures 1-3. Adaptors for various brands.
Figure 4. Milling NT Trading abutment. Figure 5. Milled abutment.
Today, dental implant treatment is a commonplace and an excellent routine solution for replacing missing teeth. Implant systems and components are under continual development but the sheer number of brands on the market and the amount of parts available to restore the prosthetic components catalogues can be overwhelming. So many brands of implants and so many parts available can lead to a potentially expensive minefield, especially when trying to match up components.
The implant abutment is an integral component of the overall prosthetic restoration and the use of stock abutments is commonplace, however it often does come with shortcomings. The abutment itself must offer strength, stability and bio-compatibility and be able to fit the implant, support soft tissue and allow access for a screw, if desired, amongst other important factors. Pre-manufactured stock abutments have traditionally been the choice, however with the advancement in local manufacturing options, more labs and clinicians are looking for custom-milled abutments.
Custom-milled titanium abutments offer many advantages such as: • They assist in achieving a passive fit; • The final restoration is manufactured to the exact gingiva contour, providing the optimal emergence profile with a smooth transition to the final restoration; • Angle correction of the implant is easier; and • Chairside adjustments are fewer and appointments can be smoother and faster, resulting in a more efficient dental clinic.
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Figure 6. Blank ready to mill and milled abutment.
Figure 8. DGSHAPE DWX-42W. Figure 7. Special milling tools.
Figure 9. Milled Custom Abutment.
Custom abutments are an excellent treatment solution for the patient. They allow careful management of the soft tissues by creating a more desirable emergence profile, plus patients find oral hygiene maintenance easier when the gingival tissues are correctly contoured.
Dental implant treatment is regarded as a premium service and patients expect to receive implant restorations of a premium quality. Custom-milled titanium abutments ensure that implant-supported restorations are aesthetically pleasing and have excellent functionality. Clinicians that go from using stock abutments to custom abutments will often find improved implant treatment results.
The DGSHAPE DWX-42W wet mill is an incredibly adaptable machine for milling popular restoration applications that have the potential to grow your business and ultimately profit. Originally designed for milling glass ceramics and hybrid composites, it can now mill titanium custom abutments.
The new DGSHAPE AK-1 Abutment Kit that features selected equipment for use with your choice of the industry’s most popular attachments and pre-milled titanium blanks*.The AK-1 delivers an out-of-the-box solution with all the milling burs, filters and tools you need to set-up your DWX-42W for custom titanium abutments.
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With a better fit and greater overall aesthetics, custom titanium abutments are fast becoming the standard choice for dental implant and lab businesses. The AK-1 Abutment Kit accessory for the DGSHAPE DWX-42W wet mill brings production of custom abutments in-house to make the process faster, more convenient and more cost-effective. A simple yet elegant solution that connects a DWX-42W mill with AK-1 attachments for custom abutment milling eliminates the need and cost of outsourcing and adds a popular and profitable new wet-milling application for new or existing DWX-42W owners.
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ON DEMAND ONLINE LEARNING PROGRAMME ON DEMAND ONLINE LEARNING PROGRAMME 26 VIDEOS - 6+ HOURS OF EDUCATION 26 VIDEOS - 6+ HOURS OF EDUCATION INTERACTIVE Q&A SUPPORT WEBINARS INTERACTIVE Q&A SUPPORT WEBINARS Presented by Professor Laurence J. Walsh AO Presented by Professor Laurence J. Walsh AO
Learn firsthand from Australia’s leading authority on infection prevention and control in dentistry about recent changes in infection control that have come in over the past 12 Learn firsthand from Australia’s leading authority on infection prevention and control in dentistry about recent changes in infection control that have come in over the past 12 6 6 months, including the new guidelines from NHMRC (May 2019), Hand Hygiene Australia months, including the new guidelines from NHMRC (May 2019), Hand Hygiene Australia HOURS CPD HOURS CPD (Sept 2019) and the CDNA (Dec 2018) as well as recent changes in Australian Standards (Sept 2019) and the CDNA (Dec 2018) as well as recent changes in Australian Standards and TGA regulations that are relevant to infection control. The course will provide a summary and TGA regulations that are relevant to infection control. The course will provide a summary of how those changes interlink with one another. of how those changes interlink with one another. The course will cover practical implementation of the new requirements and what it means for everyday dental The course will cover practical implementation of the new requirements and what it means for everyday dental practice. Hear about the why and the how and keep up-to-date with the changes that are happening. Bring practice. Hear about the why and the how and keep up-to-date with the changes that are happening. Bring along your questions in writing or in person for one of the Q&A sessions that will be held during the day. along your questions in writing or in person for one of the Q&A sessions that will be held during the day.
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This one day course will cover changes in regulations and guidelines from 2018 to 2020 including: This one day course will cover changes in regulations and guidelines from 2018 to 2020 including: n n Risk-based precautions. Risk-based precautions. n n Hand hygiene and hand care practices. Hand hygiene and hand care practices. n n Addressing common errors in personal protective equipment. Addressing common errors in personal protective equipment. n n Biofilm reduction strategies. Biofilm reduction strategies. n n Efficiency-based measures to improve workflow in instrument reprocessing and patient changeover. Efficiency-based measures to improve workflow in instrument reprocessing and patient changeover. n n Correct operation of mechanical cleaners and steam sterilisers. Correct operation of mechanical cleaners and steam sterilisers. n n Wrapping and batch control identification. Wrapping and batch control identification. n n Requirements for record keeping for instrument reprocessing. Requirements for record keeping for instrument reprocessing. n n Correct use of chemical and biological indicators. Correct use of chemical and biological indicators.
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Professor Laurence Walsh AO is a clinically active specialist in special needs den-Professor Laurence Walsh AO is a clinically active specialist in special needs dentistry who is based at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Laurie has been tistry who is based at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Laurie has been teaching infection control and clinical microbiology for over 25 years at postgrad-teaching infection control and clinical microbiology for over 25 years at postgraduate level and has been the chief examiner in microbiology for the RACDS for the uate level and has been the chief examiner in microbiology for the RACDS for the past 20 years. He has presented invited courses and lectures on infection control past 20 years. He has presented invited courses and lectures on infection control across Australia and internationally. Laurie has written over 60 articles on infection across Australia and internationally. Laurie has written over 60 articles on infection control and in addition published over 320 journal papers and a further 190 technical reports and control and in addition published over 320 journal papers and a further 190 technical reports and literature reviews. He serves on two committees of Standards Australia (personal protecting equip-literature reviews. He serves on two committees of Standards Australia (personal protecting equipment; and instrument reprocessing) and in recent years has been an adviser to the Communicable ment; and instrument reprocessing) and in recent years has been an adviser to the Communicable Diseases Network of Australia and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Diseases Network of Australia and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Laurie has been a member of the ADA Infection Control Committee since 1998. He has contributed Laurie has been a member of the ADA Infection Control Committee since 1998. He has contributed to various protocols, guidelines and checklists and manuals used in Australia. to various protocols, guidelines and checklists and manuals used in Australia.
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n n On-Demand access to 26 Online Learning Videos On-Demand access to 26 Online Learning Videos (Over 6 hours of education). (Over 6 hours of education). n n Online Learning Companion Booklet. Online Learning Companion Booklet. n n Suggested Reading Material Booklet. Suggested Reading Material Booklet. n n Access to regular Q&A Webinar(s). Access to regular Q&A Webinar(s). n n Online Questionnaire to earn 6 Hours of CPD. Online Questionnaire to earn 6 Hours of CPD.
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