In the industry today, dental offices are fast becoming high-tech hubs. As digital cameras, computers, and internet become integrated with practices, technology is turning into an essential dental tool.
One of the latest tools comes from Dentsply, called the Cercon Coach.
This revolutionary piece of software is designed to empower your practice by providing you with three things; patient education, clinical procedures, and a digital link with the laboratory.
Empower your patient
When it comes to patients, there is nothing more valuable than trust. Cercon Coach provides a series of customized 3D animations for crown, bridge, and implant procedures. These allow the dentist, dental assistant, or hygenist to explain why the patient needs an indirect restoration.
During these 15-20 second animations, the user can stop, draw, fast-forward, or pause and discuss what’s being presented. The second part of the animation presents restorative options, with enough information to educate but not confuse.
When your patients have this knowledge, it gives them a sense of trust. The result is greater patient acceptance and satisfaction.
Empower your practice
Keeping up with cosmetic dentistry innovations is crucial to the success of any practice. While clinical photography and videos can be helpful, they often lack the tips and tricks needed to utilize new products to their fullest potential. Cercon Coach’s series of customized animations and actual clinical videos result in an improved visualization of proper techniques as well as added features for advanced clinicians.
Elements addressed include step-by-step animations for preparation procedures, temporization techniques, burs, tissue management, endodontic design and restorative steps, and cementation protocols.
This practice component can help dentists train their team and improve overall consistency in their practice. And training new dental assistants and staff members on procedures has never been easier.
Empower your prescription
Cercon Coach’s lab prescription tool delivers customized, highly detailed scripts electronically to the lab. This convenient procedure improves communication, reduces errors, and saves time for the lab and practice alike. You can customize anterior and posterior teeth, specify shades, add patient photos, and add notes, all with drag-and-drop simplicity.
Patient – Practice – Prescription. Connections made simple.
Cercon Coach combines patient treatment plan animations, comprehensive clinical procedures and an electronic lab prescription tool into an affordable interactive software program. The Results are greater patient acceptance and satisfaction. A better educated and effective team. And a digital link with the lab for stronger efficiency and accuracy.
As we approach the 75th anniversary of Vitallium, this is an ideal opportunity to briefly revisit the history of Vitallium and Austenal. The Austenal story spans over 70 years, offering a rich account that mirrors changes in the dental industry itself.
It all began with the original partnership of Reiner Erdle and Charles Prange in 1926 when Austenal was founded. These men began their company based on the concept of offering innovative material and techniques and the highest quality products for the dental industry. In 1928, at the company’s inception, this meant swedging Austenitic steel into metal bases for full dentures, an advanced procedure in its day.
By 1932, Erdle and Prange had been working with a new cobalt-chromium alloy that was showing great promise for strength and tarnish resistance. The method of casting it, however, was radically different and required considerable training for laboratories to embrace the new technique. As its biocompatible properties were further understood, Vitallium was considered to be a miracle alloy, offering tremendous benefits not only for dental patients but for orthopedic patients as well. The demand for Vitallium grew rapidly, and with it the demand for training and further innovation.
The Austenal Company went on to pioneer a host of new products, from porcelain denture teeth to pre-formed wax patterns. All the while, the family of Austenal Laboratories continued to grow, as did Austenal’s reputation for service and quality products.
The 1970s and early 80s ushered in the merger and acquisition phase of the laboratory industry and Austenal was acquired and re-acquired, eventually residing with large European conglomerate. In 1992, a group of American investors succeeded in acquiring Austenal with the mission of returning the company to its original philosophy of innovation, product development and service.
By 1996, advances in metallurgy made possible to introduce Vitallium 2000. This new alloy provided laboratories with improved handling and advanced physical characteristics. This was shortly followed by Vitalluim 2000 Plus, a formulation that allowed for the creation of even lighter, more refined partial castings.
The acquastion of Austenal in 2002 by Dentsply International made Austenal stronger than ever and ready to embrace the laboratory industry with innovation in products and support for the 21st century.
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Until now, splints were typically constructed from hard acrylic material that is subject to breakage and is difficult to work with. Now, with thermo-elastic acrylic, all that has been changed. Splints that have been constructed from this special acrylic become pliable when placed in warm tap water. As it cools, the splint returns to its original processed shape and conforms to the teeth.
Some of the advantages of thermo-elastic acrylic are:
- The fit of the thermo-elastic acrylic is such that chairtime is dramatically reduced
- Thermo-elastic acrylic is comfortable to wear, and is easy for the patient to insert and remove, therby increasing patient compliance
- Thermo-elastic acrylic has such an accurate fit that the need for metal clasps is practically eliminated
- Thermo-elastic acrylic can be chemically bonded with other types of acrylic, to produce a hard occlussal surface for the treatment of bruxism. This material can also be used in many other orthodontic applications
