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SybronEndo has announced that it has acquired the endodon- tic business unit from Discus Dental, a U.S. dental company currently held by Philips. The takeoverwilltakeeffectimmedi- ately and includes Discus’ entire product range of irrigation sys- tems and other products under the Smart Endo brand, as well as patents and licenses, the com- pany said in a press release. On their websites, both com- panies advise customers to con- tact their SybronEndo represen- tatives for all future Discus Den- talproduct orders. Further infor- mation were not disclosed. SybronEndo is a business di- vision of Sybron Dental Special- ties, a California-based dental conglomerate comprising busi- ness units involved in orthodon- tics, endodontics, infection pre- vention and dental implants. As part of the Kerr Corporation, the company has operated in the dental market for almost 100 years. Discus Dental was acquired byDutchconsumablesmanufac- turer Philips almost a year ago DENTALTRIBUNE Middle East & Africa Edition Industrial News 9 AD Zimmer reveals NextGen implant with osseoincorpo- ration functionality ATHENS, Greece: A Tapered Screw-Ventimplantfeaturingos- seoincorporation was revealed by Zimmer Dental this morning attheAnnualCongressoftheEu- ropean Association of Osseointe- gration (EAO) in Athens in Greece. The new implant has an osteoconductive midsection made of Trabecular Metal, a highly biocompatible material with a structure similar to can- cellous bone, and is compatible with the company’s Tapered Screw-Vent Surgical Kit and range of prosthetics. TrabecularMetalhasbeenal- ready used for more than a decade in many of Zimmer’s or- thopaedic devices. Made from tantalum, a rare and highly cor- rosion resistant metal already used for dental implants since the 1950s, it offers high porosity that allows bone around implant sites to grow not only onto the material but also into it—a process known as osseoincopo- ration. Zimmer acquired the tech- nology from an acquisition of the Implex Corporation in 2003 Philips divests Discus unit to SybronEndo Chemical luminescence can aid in the visualisation of oral leu- coplakia, new research has found. Following oral examinations, re- searchersatKing’sCollegeLondon Dental Institute evaluated the ac- curacy of chemiluminescence in detecting potentially malignant oral disorders using a commer- cially available detection kit. DT New light on oral leucoplakia