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Dental Tribune United Kingdom Edition

“ This is fantastic!! I have never won anything ever before!” I emailed Suzy af- ter the good news that along with nine others who had made early bird bookings for the 2011 BACD conference, I had won an all-ex- penses paid trip to Hamburg! The purpose of the trip was to visit the DMG factory, where well known products, such as Luxacore and Luxatemp, are made and to be shown round Hamburg. Four months later, off we all went, meeting up at the airport as we flew into Hamburg from all over the British Isles. We arrived at DMG HQ (after a 4:30am start for many) to be told to don flimsy surgical gowns and disposable ‘shower’ caps for our tour of the factory – a great way to get a group of strangers to know each other and have a giggle together! The tour was very interesting: no matter how many times one has listened to lectures on the manufacture of various dental materials, a tour is worth much more than a thousand words. We were enlightened in the process- es required to make glass parti- cles fine enough to be the filler in composite restorative materials; and how pure the resin has to be in order to be accurate in shade matching, concocted in a yel- low room to prevent it from cur- ing while it is being processed. Equally enlightening were the processes to get the stuff into the dispensing tubes! Dinner on the first night was at an excellent traditional Ger- man pub, the Brauhaus Joh. Albrecht. It was an ‘eat loads of meat, drink lots of beer’ kind of affair followed by a relatively early night (except for a few) af- ter the 4:30am start. Friday consisted of a series of lectures by Felix, the highly en- tertaining, slightly ‘mad profes- sor’ expert chemist at the factory. He made, amongst other things, the chemistry of bonding reac- tions come alive and educated us in DMG’s exciting new product Icon which is designed to treat interproximal caries and remove white spot lesions in a non-in- vasive way. He interspersed his lectures with random quizzes for prizes. I got the wooden spoon for suggesting the tallest tree in the world would be 300m (what’s wrong with that? Only 200m out; can’t see the problem). However, the highlight of the trip for me was the amazing Safari dinner laid on for us that evening, with a tour of Hamburg between each course to take in all the sights of the city. We started on the roof top of the Atlantic Hotel Kempin- ski, with a view over the lake and seven spires of Hamburg. The pièce de résistance Dentist Clare Chavasse writes about winning the DMG prize draw trip to Hamburg The roof of the Atlantic Hotel Kempinski in Hamburg Sight seeing around Lubeck September 5-11, 2011United Kingdom EditionSee what you are missing... Carl Zeiss EyeMag Sports 2.5x loupes Carl Zeiss GTX Carl Zeiss EyeMag Pro prismatic loupes Carl Zeiss OPMI® Pico Nuview Ltd, Vine House, Selsley Road, North Woodchester, Gloucestershire GL5 5NN Tel: 01453 872266 Fax: 01453 872288 E-mail: info@nuview-ltd.com Web: www.voroscopes.co.uk V2 LED Illumination Carl Zeiss ProErgo ‘It was an ‘eat loads of meat, drink lots of beer’ kind of affair followed by a relatively early night (except for a few)