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www.dental-tribune.com DentalTribuneAmerica 116West23rdStreet Suite#500 NewYork,N.Y.10011 DENTAL TRIBUNE The World’s Dental Newspaper · U.S. Edition OCTOBER 2012 — Vol. 7, No. 10 From the editor in ChieF a3 • Dental Tribune U.S. EIC suggests colorfully confusing communication meetings a4–a12 • American Dental Association takes ‘future of dentistry’ to San Francisco • Academy of Microscope Enhanced Dentistry plans big meeting • NYC dressing up for the Greater New York Dental Meeting • Yankee Dental Congress highlights include mid-conference comic • C.E. credits, beautiful beaches make Smiles in the Sun unique event indUstrY a14–a28 • Aribex donates ‘unit No. 10,000’ NOMAD Pro Handheld X-ray device • New: Inclusive Tooth Replacement Solution from Glidewell Laboratories • Arm & Hammer sponsors high- profile events at ADA annual meeting • Philips Zoom WhiteSpeed gives clinician control of sensitivity settings • Blind spot costing you thousands? • PhilipsWandSTA:painlessinjection • Next xpAPce video features top oral surgeon with three-part C.E. course • Pink FlashTips support cancer fight • SchedulingInstitutefindslearning's sweet spot, where everything clicks • OrthoBanc online payroll services comprehensive but low priced • Patterson Dental’s Eaglesoft 16 makes daily practice life easier www.dental-tribune.com DentalTribuneAmerica 116West23rdStreet Suite#500 NewYork,N.Y.10011 DENTAL TRIBUNE The World’s Dental Newspaper · U.S. Edition adam eetingPreview Ad A team of Italian and Austra- lian researches appears to have found physical proof that restorative dentistry dates to the Stone Age. The researchers identified traces of a dental filling made of beeswax in a Neolithic human tooth discovered in Slovenia — and they are saying it may be the “earliest known direct evidence of [a] therapeutic-palliative dental fill- ing.” The research findings were pub- lished Sept. 19 in PLoS ONE, the peer- reviewed, open-access journal, acces- sible at www.plosone.org. The team acknowledges in its paper that it cannot be absolutely certain that the beeswax filling was placed in the tooth in an effort to address a dental problem the individual was ex- periencing while alive. But the paper identifies that as being the most likely of the possible scenarios that would explain the presence of the substance on a worn-down tooth that otherwise would have had exposed dentin. “The tooth probably became very sensitive, limiting the functionality of the jaw during occlusion. The oc- clusal surface could have been filled with beeswax in an attempt to reduce the pain [by] sealing exposed dentin tubules and the fracture from changes in osmotic pressure (as occurs on con- tact with sugar) and temperature (hot or cold relative to the oral cavity),” the team wrote. The piece of jawbone with five teeth still attached was discovered long before the team’s research was con- ducted. It was excavated from a cave wall near the village of Loche, Istria, in Slovenia and was initially dated based on associated fauna remains, which traced to the Upper Pleistocene era. The team reported that the speci- men was considered to be “one of the most ancient anthropological remains from the northern-Adriatic area.” But the find had never been subjected to detailed analysis until the researchers secured permission to study the man- dible using state-of-the-art scanning technology and radiocarbon dating techniques. Stone-age dental filling identified 6,500-year-old human mandible shows evidence of beeswax used to seal a cracked, upper canine By Robert Selleck, Managing Editor ” See FILLING, page A2 ” See page A4 The American Dental Association’s 153rd Annual Session and World Marketplace Exhibition is Oct. 18–21 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The meeting brings together leaders in dental practice, research, academia and industry and includes more than 280 continuing education courses and more than 600 suppliers of dental products and services. Photo/Provided by California Travel and Tourism Commission/Christian Heeb CoLorFUL ‘soLUtion’ For dentistrY’s aLPhaBet soUP Confused by abbreviations identifying dental groups? The problem isn't as black and white as you think. ” page A3 Implant trIbune iCoi CeLeBrates 40th anniversarY Implantologists get together for World Congress in Florida. ” page B1 endo trIbune eFFiCient, ergonomiC aPiCaL reseCtion Revision and rehabilitation surgery: Better prognosis than even just 10 years ago. ” page C1 PRSRTSTD U.S.Postage PAID SanAntonio,TX Permit#1396 American Dental Association, San Francisco, Oct. 18–21