Align Technology, a global medical device company that designs, manufactures, and sells the Invisalign system of clear aligners, iTero intraoral scanners, and exocad CAD/CAM software for digital orthodontics and restorative dentistry, has announced a new collaboration with the European Aligner Society (EAS) at the Society’s Summer Meeting in Portugal held on...
Switching the electricity used at their headquarters and A1 Factory in Japan entirely to renewable energy including photovoltaic power, NSK paves their path to zero CO2 manufacturing.Addressing global warming, which is accompanied by severe climate change, has become an urgent problem and international efforts such as the Paris Agreement...
Ivoclar Inc. North America announced a major investment in solar energy to power its Amherst, NY corporate headquarters, transitioning from fossil fuel dependent to renewable energy as part of the company’s continued global commitment to a safer, healthier environment.The nearly US$1 million clean energy project started in 2020 and...
Amann Girrbach offers a new service: as part of the so-called Performance Plans, customers will not only have the option of buying software programs, but also of renting them. Lower entry costs, flexible selection options and included upgrades are the major benefits.The new Performance Plans represent an alternative to...
Panthera Dental, a provider of computer-aided design (CAD)/computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) implant solutions and dental sleep appliances, has partnered with Medit to provide patients custom-made sleep apnea devices from Panthera Dental that are integration within the Medit software.After scanning the patient’s arches and registering the bite, Medit users can open...
Dentsply Sirona has unveiled the DS Core, a new and open platform that integrates the whole workflow of digital dentistry in a virtual event, along with other services and solutions.Developed in collaboration with Google Cloud, DS Core is said to allow dentists to focus on their patients and create...
The Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology journal has recently published a study which concluded that the overall image quality was at a diagnostically acceptable level for the defined diagnostic task using the Planmeca Ultra Low Dose (ULD) protocol. Additionally, the study remarked that applying Planmeca...
DentalMonitoring has announced a new business unit, DM Lab, aimed at exploring, testing and validating business opportunities across the dental market, as the company expands its geographical presence in strategic regions, including China and Japan.As part of this change, Raphaël Pascaud has been appointed senior vice-president and executive director,...
BioHorizons Camlog, a supplier of dental implant systems, is committed to driving aesthetic implantology forward through science, innovation, and education. The company’s Global Education Tour (GET) aims to shape the world of implant dentistry by bringing educational programmes to numerous global locations in 2022, allowing clinicians to share their...
Planmeca, Henry Schein and ClearChoice have entered a partnership to further elevate patient experience with enhanced digital imaging technology.The ClearChoice doctors decided to integrate the Planmeca Viso G7, a cone-beam computed topography (CBCT) imaging unit that Planmeca offers, into the ClearChoice network of more than 75 centres across the...
