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2011 Product Awards
THE DENTAL ADVISOR has selected 34 products for special recognition. Our Product Awards are given to the dental products that have exceeded our standards of performance and quality. The products were selected for awards based on the clinical experience of our Editorial Board and Consulting Team.
Assistants’ Choice
Green Envy Tray Cleaner
Whip Mix Corp
Green Envy Tray Cleaner is a dental impression tray cleaner indicated for the removal of alginate and gypsum from impression trays.
- “Works well, pleasant scent and environmentally friendly.”
- “Dissolves alginate quickly - less time needed to scrub trays.”
- “My assistant, who has been in dentistry for 30+ years, thought this was the best tray cleaner she had ever used.”
- “Provide a stronger concentration so less is needed for larger holding tanks.”
- “Improve instructions for mixing larger volumes of solution.”
Hygienists' Choice
2Pro Total Access Disposable Prophy Angle
Premier Dental Products
2Pro Total Access Disposable Prophy Angle
Top 6th-generation Bonding Agent
ACE ALL-BOND SE
Bisco Dental Products
ACE ALL-BOND SE is a self-etching (6th-generation, Type II) bonding agent that combines etching, priming and bonding in a dual-chamber cartridge dispensing system. ALL-BOND SE is a light-cured, ethanol/water-based, self-etching, adhesive containing acidic monomers that can be used with both self- and dual-cured materials as well as indirect restorations without the need for additional activators.
Top 7th-generation Bonding Agent
BOND FORCE
Tokuyama Dental Corp./Tokuyama America Inc.
BOND FORCE is a single-component (7th-generation), self-etching, fluoride-releasing bonding agent. It requires one application and a light curing time of 10 seconds.
Top Dual Cure 7th-generation Bonding Agent
Futurabond DC
VOCO America, Inc.
Futurabond DC is a dual-cured, self-etching bonding agent (7th-generation) that is reinforced with nano-particles. It is indicated for use with direct light-, dual- or self-cured composite restorations and core build-ups plus cementation of posts and indirect restorations (inlays, crowns and bridges) with light-, dual-, or self-cured resin composite cements.
Air-Driven, High Speed Handpiece
STATIS ML
SciCan
STATIS is a line of air-driven handpieces available in two head sizes. These high-speed handpieces have a 25,000 LUX illumination, an innovative spray system, and a push-button chuck mechanism.
Top Alginate
imprESSIX Color Change
DENTSPLY Raintree Essix
imprESSIX Color Change is a fast-set, dust-free, berry-scented alginate impression material that changes color to indicate the stage of set.
Top Bite Registration Material
Flexitime Bite
Heraeus Kulzer, LLC
Flexitime Bite® is an addition silicone (PVS) bite registration material. Flexitime Bite may be used for conventional bite registration or in conjunction with CAD/CAM systems.
Top Ceramic Finishing & Polishing System
Jazz P3S Polishers
S.S. White Burs, Inc.
Jazz P3S Polishers are latch-type polishers indicated for use on porcelain restorations, but they can also be used on metal.
Top Composite
Estelite Sigma Quick
Tokuyama Dental Corp./Tokuyama America Inc.
Estelite Sigma Quick is a low-shrinkage, submicronfilled composite for use in both anterior and posterior restorations.
- "Works well with all of the bonding systems I use in my office."
- "Great handling!"
- "Not as sensitive to the operating light as other composites."
- "Huge variety of shades that blend very well with tooth."
- "It’s rare that I would get this excited about a composite, but this one blew me away!"
Top Composite Finishing & Polishing System
Super-Snap Singles
Shofu Dental Corp.
Super-Snap Singles are thin, flexible disks with a silicone rubber center. The plastic, latch-type mandrel is disposable.
- “Excellent polish!”
- “Plastic mandrels in each packet are great! No more hunting for the few metal mandrels in the office.”
- “No metal in the center of the disk is great!”
Top Core Material
Rebilda DC
VOCO America, Inc.
Rebilda DC is a dual-cured, radiopaque, flowable composite core build-up material.
Rebilda DC
- “The flow and dual-cured feature are great!”
- “Material is hard after setting, and it cuts very well.”
- “There is less waste and more control during placement.”
- “Good for block-out.”
- “Adapts well to pins/posts.”
Top Dispensing System
F-Splint Aid
Polydentia SA
F-Splint-Aid fiberglass ribbon is made of six layers of ultra-thin, 4 mm wide fiberglass band, sewn together and saturated with bonding agent.
- “Compact kit is easy to store.”
- “Dispensing is great! The pre-wetting with bonding agent saves a step.”
- “Ribbon does not fray when cut.”
- “Long shelf life - 5 years - is great for a product that is only needed occasionally.”
- “I would like a narrower size.”
Top Electric Handpiece System
NuTorque
DentalEZ
The NuTorque™ programmable electric handpiece system is lightweight and compact and is indicated for general dentistry procedures including crown preparation, cavity preparation, caries removal, finishing and polishing, and endodontic treatment.
- "Best electric handpiece I have used."
- "It was easy for our dental assistant to connect to the existing handpiece line."
- "Versatile; very easy to change from endo to restorative."
- "Very quiet."
Top Esthetic Post System
ParaPost Taper Lux
Coltene/Whaledent, Inc.
ParaPost Taper Lux is a tapered, glass-fiber post with unidirectional fibers in a resin matrix.
- “The posts have a retentive head design.”
- “The natural color of the posts enhances esthetics, especially in the anterior.”
- “Excellent product! ParaPost has been around for a long time and this is their best product.”
- “It is a big help that the drills are color-coded to the posts.”
Top Esthetic Resin Cement
Variolink II
Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc
Variolink II is dual-cured/light-cured esthetic resin cement for luting indirect ceramic and composite restorations.
- “Consistent, trustworthy product.”
- “Very complete kit.”
- “Easy to follow illustrated instructions.”
- “Great shade selection.”
- “Excellent viscosity.”
- “Ease to clean after snap set.”
- “When seating an inlay, it is difficult to transfer the cement from the mixing pad to the prepared tooth.”
- Refrigeration of catalyst is inconvenient.”
- “Include try-in pastes with the kit.”
- “I prefer a dual-barrel syringe (automix) system.”
Top Flowable Composite
Estelite Flow Quick
Tokuyama Dental Corp./Tokuyama America Inc.
ESTELITE FLOW QUICK is a low-viscosity, light-cured, radiopaque, submicron-filled resin composite.
- "Good esthetics and finishing characteristics."
- "Controlled flow and a lack of bubbles."
- “Increase the opacity of the opalescent shades.”
Top Green Product Award
ScanX Classic
Air Techniques
ScanX Classic (model PN B7200) is a digital radiography system that utilizes reusable Phosphor Storage Plates (PSP) in place of film to produce diagnostic quality intraoral and extraoral digital radiographs.
- “I liked the speed of developing films.”
- “Clarity of images was great.”
- “I used less chemicals.”
- “Films sometimes had blemishes.”
- “Training program would be helpful.”
Top Impression Material
Panasil
Kettenbach LP
Panasil is a line of addition-curing silicones (VPS) impression materials with hydrophilic properties.
- “I like the viscosity of the light body--little to no voids, bubbles or drags.”
- “The heavy-bodied material extruded easily compared with most heavy-bodied materials. The light- and heavy-bodied materials always blended together seamlessly and the heavy-bodied material provided excellent detail without drag.”
- “Easy to use, fast setting, good color contrast and good flow.”
- “The setting times seemed to be slower than indicated in the instructions.”
- “Put light and x-light materials in small syringes.”
Top Infection Control Product
Cavex ImpreSafe
Cavex Holland BV
Cavex ImpreSafe is a highly concentrated disinfectant for alginate, polyether and silicone impressions.
Top Innovative Product
OraVerse
Novalar Pharmaceuticals, Inc
OraVerse® is a local anesthesia reversal agent that accelerates the return to normal sensation and function for patients after routine dental procedures.
Top Innovative Consumer Product
Archtek Toothpaste Tablets
Archtek, Inc.
Archtek Toothpaste Tablets are chewable, unit-dose tablets to be used for regular tooth brushing instead of toothpaste. The tablets are easier for people with relevant physical limitations to use and are more sanitary than traditional tubes of toothpaste because there is no microbial transmission from the toothbrush swiping the end of the tube.
Top Innovative Equipment
COMFORTdrive 200XDR
KaVo Dental
The COMFORTdrive® 200XDR is a lightweight, high-speed electric handpiece featuring patented micro-motor technology.
Top Light-Curing Unit
bluephase G2
Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc.
The bluephase G2 is a cordless LED curing-light used for the polymerization of light-curing dental materials, including restoratives, bonding agents/adhesives, bases, liners, fissure sealants, temporaries, as well saluting materials for orthodontic brackets.
Top Long-term Performer
3M ESPE RelyX Unicem Self-Adhesive Resin Cement
3M ESPE
3M ESPE RelyX Unicem Self-Adhesive Universal Resin Cement is a dual-cured resin cement. It is self-adhesive, requiring no tooth surface preparation such as etching or priming. The cement is filled 72% by weight and contains fluoride.
Top Partial Denture Alloy
NobilStar Ultra
CMP Industries
NobilStar Ultra is a premium chromium-cobalt partial denture alloy.
Top Preventive Product
MI Paste Plus
GC America, Inc
MI Paste Plus™ is a water-based creme containing RECALDENT™ a milk derivative, (CPP-ACPF - casein phosphopeptide-amorphous calcium phosphate fluoride) with incorporated fluoride to aid in tooth remineralization and caries prevention.
Top Provisional Material
Luxatemp Fluorescence
DMG America
Luxatemp Fluorescence is a self-cured, hybrid Bis-GMA resin composite for fabrication of provisional crowns, bridges, inlays, onlays, temporary veneers, and long-term temporaries.
Top Sectional Matrix System
V3 Sectional Matrix System
Triodent Corp.
The V3 Sectional Matrix System is comprised of three components: the V3 Ring, a separator ring with V-shaped plastic tines, the V3 Tab-Matrix and the Wave-Wedge.
Top Self-adhesive Resin Cement
3M ESPE RelyX 2 Unicem Self-Adhesive Resin Cement
3M ESPE
3M ESPE RelyX™ Unicem 2 Automix Self-Adhesive Resin Cement is a dual-cured, self-adhesive resin cement.
Top Temporary Cement
TempBond NE
Kerr Corporation
Temp-Bond NE is a two-paste, non-eugenol temporary cement; therefore, it will not interfere with the setting of resin cements.
Top Whitening System Product Award
BEYOND Polus Whitening Accelerator with BEYOND Treatment Kits
Beyond Dental & Health
BEYOND Polus Whitening Accelerator with BEYOND Treatment Kits is an in-office whitening system designed to whiten within three, 10-minute sessions.
Top WOW Equipment
Spectra Caries Detection Aid
Air Techniques
Spectra Caries Detection Aid is a digital imaging product used as an aid in caries detection.
Top WOW Product
Surefil SDR Flow
DENTSPLY Caulk
Surefil SDR flow is a posterior bulk fill flowable base for Class I and II restorations.
