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IDS 2017 meetings | Images courtesy of Koelnmesse GmbH. roots 2 2017 47 rescence mode enhances one microscope, which enables the intraoperative check for tooth decay during the substance removal. The newly designed interface allows one-handed control. The opportu- nities of such systems range from endodontics through to preserving dentistry, periodontology and implantology. Different functionalities are growing together in a different area too. Small lamps combine a lamp for the hardening of dental materials with fluorescence diagnostics. Both bacterial activities, such as the smallest leakages in the edges of fillings, become visible. However, this is more and more frequently avoided from the onset, among other things thanks to a constant reduction in polymerisation shrinkage with current values down to just 0.85 %. The terminal tooth always presents a special prob- lem in filling therapy: the matrix cannot be wedged, and after its removal, distocervical surplus compos- ites have to be laboriously filed away. The solution is a matrix that is produced in Germany in a completely manual process, which can be placed in one hand movement in four seconds and which automatically lies distocervically. Target figure = primary stability If a tooth is no longer worth preserving despite to- day's endodontic and tooth preserving possibilities, im- plantology treatment is more and more frequently an option, which is now becoming even more interesting: new instruments with sharp working tips and a thin profile enable a tissue-saving extraction and thus of- ten make elaborate bone augmentations superfluous. Fibre-reinforced composites are used as super- structure material to provide a “shock absorber” effect, which offers a plus in durability and biting feeling. Corresponding CAD/CAM blocks can be processed chairside in the meantime even without separate firing processes. When fixing implant prosthetic constructions us- ing locators (often an alternative to full dentures) a high pivoting capacity now allows divergences of up to 40 degrees between two implants. And thanks to a special holding mechanism, the dentures can be extracted particularly easily using a hydraulic release system during the recall appointment. If a conventional mucosa-supported full denture is chosen, cold curing resin with many of the material characteristics of heat curing polymer offer the dentist totally new possibilities. Such pink denture plastics are high impact, lie nicely on the gums of the patient and can nevertheless still be comfortably processed in the laboratory. Step towards the practice and laboratory of tomorrow New super-sharp scalers, new tiny mini implants, new ceramics for press technology processing, new embedding materials—this list is ongoing. The industry heads the ranks in many areas with both analogous and digital innovations. During their tour around IDS in Cologne the dentists and dental technicians took advantage of this to collect ideas for their practice and laboratory of tomorrow, based on well-founded knowledge thanks to the com- prehensive offer of the exhibitors._ New implant systems are appearing that consider- ably increase the primary stability through compre- hensive further developments. Certain engines now dispose of a non-invasive stability measurement so that the optimal service life of an implant can accurately be determined. Editorial note: IDS (International Dental Show) takes place in Cologne every two years and is organised by the GFDI Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Dental-Industrie mbH, the commercial enterprise of the Association of German Dental Manufacturers (VDDI) and is staged by Koelnmesse GmbH, Cologne.