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New Year, New Office Gifts
As we begin 2020, the holiday season is officially in the
rear-view mirror and you should be arriving at work with
a fresh perspective on the year ahead. It would be easy to
list some of the resolutions I made for the year ahead, but
this month I'd rather spend some time on a few fun dental
purchases I made during the holiday season.
I travel to many dental meetings throughout the year
to meet with manufacturers and keep up to date on the
latest issues facing our profession. The last meeting of the
year, the Greater New York Dental meeting, starts the
Sunday after Thanksgiving, when New York City is filled
with dazzling holiday decorations and sidewalks of shoppers on Fifth Avenue. I, meanwhile, was inside the Javits
Convention Center,
shopping for things
that could improve
my dentistry.
The fi rst item I
purchased is one of
those things that's a
bit of a sleeper. The
Profin PDX handpiece
has been around for a long time, but I never appreciated
its appeal until I was with a group of opinion leaders
learning about a new product. A couple of them said
it was a must-have, so I made a note to check it out at
the next dental meeting. I was pleasantly surprised to
learn this handpiece could address some of the most
common frustrations with finishing restorations and
correcting the defects found in some existing fillings.
This Swedish handpiece has a 1.2mm reciprocating
movement and a wide range of thin tips designed to
recontour and polish the margins of direct and indirect restorations. Some of the most
common indications are overhangs on
Class II boxes and Class V finishing

and embrasures. There is even a series of tips for IPR,
if you specialize in clear aligners.
My next purchase was a smaller spend from Cosmedent-the CASI composite instruments in 3C (wide)
and 3L (universal). This clever design is a thin, curved
instrument for the manipulation of composite in the
anterior as well as Class V restorations. The curve generally
follows the natural curvature of the teeth and the thin
blade makes it easy
to trim away excess
material during shaping. Of course, the
coating is nonstick.
The final December discovery was
free. Ivoclar is promoting its SpeedCEM
Plus cement wit h a
Performance Made Easy
kit. Inside you'll find
everything you need to
deliver a zirconia crown.
There are samples of
OptraGate, for isolation;
Ivoclean which removes
salivary contamination
on zirconia; SpeedCEM
Plus, a self-adhesive,
self-curing resin cement with light-curing option;
liquid strips to prevent an oxygen inhibition layer;
and OptraGloss polishers. I'll have a special video on
Dentaltown.com this month with all the details.
Did you add something big or small to your practice for
a better 2020? If so, please share it online in the comments
section under this article at dentaltown.com/magazine.
I'm also available via email tom@dentaltown.com. ■

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by Thomas Giacobbi, DDS, FAGD, editorial director, Dentaltown magazine

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