IDS in a Pandemic: Smaller Crowds but Still Prime for Product Launches

Traditionally held every other March, the International Dental Show in Cologne, Germany was postponed to September 22-25 this year due to COVID-19 and was smaller in scale than usual, with 23,000 visitors and 830 exhibiting companies. For the first time, the show also included a virtual component through the IDSconnect digital platform, which featured additional exhibitors, seminars and networking opportunities. Here are some highlights of the show:

Amann Girrbach has added to the Ceramill Direct Restoration Solution suite of modular kits which, when coupled with the new AG.Live portal, is designed to include the laboratory in the chairside CAD/CAM workflow. In addition to the High-Speed Zirconia kit available now (including the Ceramill Therm DRS high-speed sintering furnace and the Zolid DRS multi-layer zirconia blocks), the Connection Kit (Ceramill Map DRS intraoral scanner, scan software and laptop) and the Production Kit (Ceramill Motion DRS 4-axis wet milling...