DENTSPLY Tulsa Dental Specialties serves a full spectrum of dentistry, with news on the latest developments arising often. Check out our latest announcements, press releases, and related information.
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DATE: 1/25/2013
DENTSPLY Tulsa Dental Specialties introduced today its newest innovation and an expansion of the world’s leading endodontic file system. PROTAPER NEXT is the same variable taper design found in the original ProTaper that clinicians have turned to for more than a decade, but refined to improve performance.
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DATE: 8/01/2012
The use of core carriers with attached guttapercha or root canal obturation is not new, as there was evidence in the late 1800s that indicates gutta-percha was softened and adapted to gold wires and placed in the root canal system. In the past 40 years, there have been additional attempts to use this approach to obturate prepared root canal systems, namely the use of silver cones wrapped in gutta-percha and the formation of softened gutta-percha on root canal files.
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DATE: 4/02/2012
The implant products offered by DENTSPLY Tulsa Dental Specialties, including ANKYLOS®, XiVE® and the Symbios™ line of regenerative solutions, are moving to a new DENTSPLY division, DENTSPLY Implants North America.
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DATE: 4/01/2012
Rotary root-canal instrumentation with NiTi files has been very successful over the last 20 years. Starting with ProFile (DENTSPLY) in 1994, the time-consuming and complicated hand instrumentation of root canals, which had dominated endo procedure for more than a century, was replaced with a totally new approach.
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DATE: 4/01/2012
Dental Products Report reported on QMix 2in1 Irrigating Solution in its April 2012 edition.
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DATE: 3/01/2012
WHAT IF ENDODONTICS WERE SIMPLE? WHAT IF ENDODONTICS WERE EASY?
Well, endodontics is not simple. In fact, the more we know about the novelty and curvatures of the root canal systems, the more that we are aware of nature's anatomic complexities. Endodontics is not easy, but it may be becoming easier...
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DATE: 2/22/2012
Presented by the Oklahoma Dental Association, the Oklahoma Dental Foundation and the Delta Dental of Oklahoma Oral Health Foundation, the two-day OkMOM clinic is designed to meet the critical needs of dental patients of all ages by providing free dental care to as many adults and children as time, volunteers and supplies will allow.
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DATE: 2/03/2012
In this article which appeared in the November, 2011 issue of Dentistry Today, Dr. James L. Gutmann discusses the GuttaCore Crosslinked Gutta-Percha Obturator.
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DATE: 2/03/2012
Utilizing a new and proprietary method of processing of NiTi wire that results in a Blue titanium oxide layer, Vortex Blue has a visibly new approach to metallurgy. Vortex Blue features the same patented variable helical angle design as the original ProFile® Vortex® that clinicians have come to know and trust for efficiency and dependable clinical outcomes.
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DATE: 1/01/2012
The mechanical objectives for endodontic canal preparation were brilliantly outlined almost 40 years ago.1 When properly performed, these mechanical objectives promote the biological objectives for shaping canals, 3-dimensional (3-D) cleaning, and filling root...