Dentsply Sirona Articles

This year's Dentsply Sirona World offered attendees a hybrid format with both in-person and virtual programming along with several company announcements.

By Wendy Auclair Clark, DDS, MS, and Ibrahim Duqum, DDS, MS

Dental Team

Wendy Auclair Clark, DDS, MS, and Ibrahim Duqum, DDS, MS, Division of Prosthodontics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and Chris Love, CDT, Digital Removables Manager, Absolute Dental Lab, Durham, NC.

Dental Team Statement

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This year’s LMT LAB DAY Chicago set records in more ways than one: it was the first time the show featured TWO Exhibit Halls and the first time ever show attendance broke 4,900!

“Sixty-nine percent of Americans are on Facebook and 400 new users sign up every minute. Facebook is where you need to be,” said Justin Zegar, Dentsply Sirona Lab Product Marketing Manager during his lecture at this year’s Dentsply Sirona Lab Marketing Summit, held September 19-20 in...

Nearly 700 attendees were energized by the wealth of educational opportunities at LMT LAB DAY East on October 12 in Philadelphia. Even before the Exhibit Hall opened, over 100 lab owners, managers and dentists took advantage of a special LMT-sponsored keynote presentation,

Departing from the usual laid-back California approach, attendees were literally waiting at the door for LAB DAY West exhibits to open.

During the Midwinter Meeting in Chicago, Dentsply Sirona donated $20,000 to Dental Lifeline Network’s Every Smile Counts Day, celebrated in February. Fred Leviton (left), CEO and President of the Dental Lifeline Network, and Gregory Sheehan, Group Vice President Dentsply Sirona Americas.

With a dozen booth locations spread throughout the exhibit halls, Dentsply Sirona had a significant presence at the show.

For the one-year anniversary of the merger between Dentsply and Sirona, the company showcased all of its lab products together in the Ultimate Dental Laboratory housed in Dentsply Sirona’s LAB DAY ballroom. To simulate a real laboratory, it was set up with stations, each manned by a CDT and dedicated...

The patient requested an esthetic, durable and stable restoration for teeth #23-25; she rejected an implant-supported crown on #24. After considering several alternatives, the dental team opted for an all-ceramic bridge.

Dentsply Sirona held its inaugural Siroworld event in August, bringing together all members of the dental team for education, entertainment and top-level speakers.

Highlights from LMT’s 26th annual LAB DAY West

Affordable Dentures Dental Laboratories (ADDL) Vice President Mike Thomas, CDT, explains the key strategies used to teach more than 350 technicians to consistently and accurately fabricate implant overdentures.

DENTSPLY launched two new products at LMT LAB DAY:

The ATLANTIS CustomBase solution is a combination of an ATLANTIS patient-specific abutment and an ATLANTIS Core File with a screw access hole already indicated, providing a proper foundation for screw-retained restorations. Available for all major implant...

Eric Nunnally discusses the high-tech dental practice he joined, as well as cutting-edge technology he will and won’t include in his office.

As part of our ongoing State of the Industry 2015 coverage, LMT Editors visited the world’s largest dental show to bring you the scoop on the latest product and process innovations worldwide—including digital dentures, laser milling and more—and what else is coming down the pike for the U.S. market.

LMT LAB DAY is always the place for new U.S. product launches and this year didn’t disappoint: attendees got the first look at new lab and intraoral scanners, 3D printers and milling units; digital fabrication materials, such as zirconia for anterior use and PEEK; and solutions for removable prostheses,...

Following an agreement between DENTSPLY Implants and Align Technology, laboratories offering ATLANTIS patient-specific abutments can order them based upon scans from the iTero intraoral scanner starting in the second half of 2014. “Moving forward in this expanding area of digital dentistry, dental...

In this steb-by-step case study, Jonathan Brooks, CDT, MDT, demonstrates how he uses the Sirona inLab system with his Smile-Vision Template TechniqueTM.

York, PA--Introducing the two new premium Multimat® NTX and NTXPRESS units. Both furnaces include programs for firing porcelain. The NTXPRESS also presses all-ceramics, including lithium disilicates. These furnaces provide easy program customization, and excellent...