Dental Tribune United Kingdom Edition

Rob Pounds receives his award For more information or to place an order please call 0800 169 9692 email sales.uk.csd@carestream.com or visit www.carestreamdental.co.uk © Carestream Dental Ltd., 2012. features of r4 R4 Mobile Direct link to PIN pad Patient Check-in Kiosk Care Pathways Communicator Steritrak E-Forms Patient Journey on-line appointment Booking Text Message and Email reminders Clinical Notes Appointment Book Digital X-Ray Managed Service Practice Accounts Give your patients the freedom to book their own appointments • From a Laptop • From an iPad • From a Smartphone R4 PracticeManagementSoftware GIVES YOU MORE Online Patient Appointment Booking allows patients to book appointments online, whenever they want to, or need to, even out of normal surgery hours. While this makes it very convenient for your patients, you still have complete control over who can make the bookings, the types they can book, with who and when. A quick glance will tell you when an appointment has been made so that you are able to accept, refuse or adjust any request. This gives your patients greater accessibility to you and your colleagues with increased feelings of inclusivity and you’ll have fewer missed appointments. 5CIC 2012June 4-10, 2012United Kingdom Edition cludes relevant anatomy that would be imaged with a 100mm circular diameter cross section but excludes irrelevant tissues outside the jawline. Not only was it previously considered impossible to achieve anything other than a circular cross sec- tion, but by achieving this, the X-ray dose to the patient is comparatively lower by around 15 per cent. With such powerful implications for enhanced pa- tient safety, the R100 is the de- serving winner of the first ever Clinical Innovations Award. The highly commended award went to W&H with its entry the Proface light probe. Despite all the years of research in the field, detecting caries re- mains difficult. Where previous caries detection devices have generally been chemical based leaving stains, the Proface light probe was commended for its innovative approach that, while not perfect, provides the right approach to ‘evidence’ in knowing when to stop treating. This new innovation allows di- rect visual identification of the caries-infected areas, thereby enabling selective treatment during caries excavation due to the ease of detecting the caries. Proface enables simple identifi- cation of the extent of a carious lesion allowing the clinician to ensure that subsequent excava- tion is minimally invasive and leaves healthy tooth structure intact. It also allows the clini- cian the confidence of knowing that they have eradicated the entire caries. The commended award went to NSK S-MAX PICO HANDPIECE. In the modern era of micro cutting and magni- fication, this handpiece reduces the size of its head to allow wid- er visibility and better access to the posterior regions of the mouth where mouth opening is restricted, or in children and patients where mouth open- ing is limited. This handpiece has the smallest neck and head size yet developed in dentistry and the NSK’s S-Max pico ultra- mini turbine has been specifi- cally developed for minimally invasive (MI) procedures. The technical specification of this handpiece’s cutting ability for such a small head is impres- sive. This is minimalistic func- tional art in action. Finalists for the award were: - The Carestream CS7600, the world’s first Intelligent Image Plate System - COMPONEER from Coltène/ Whaledent, Direct Composite Shells that represent a com- pletely new class of veneers - Tri Plaque ID Gel from GC UK, a gel that allows you and your patient to identify areas of plaque in three easy steps - Propoints from Smart Seal, the only obturation product to use hydrophilic polymers which ab- sorb water and expand laterally within the root canal, creating a 3D mechanical seal - TEPE Angle from TePe, de- signed to provide improved ac- cess and cleaning. A TePe Angle clip strip also offers a novel way of displaying the entire range in den- tal practices - The Nano Water Flosser with the Plaque from Waterpik, which has been described as the “pinna- cle of modern Water Flosser tech- nology.” - A piezo scaler developed by Ti- gon+ W&H that provides the pa- tient with temperature-controlled irrigant spray thus avoiding irrita- tion, even for sensitive teeth Smile-on and the AOG would like to congratulate all the win- ners of the Clinical Innovations Award, and would like to thank everyone who helped make the Clinical Innovations Con- ference such a resounding success. DT