Dental Asia March/April 2022
For more than two decades, Dental Asia is the premium journal in linking dental innovators and manufacturers to its rightful audience. We devote ourselves in showcasing the latest dental technology and share evidence-based clinical philosophies to serve as an educational platform to dental professionals. Our combined portfolio of print and digital media also allows us to reach a wider market and secure our position as the leading dental media in the Asia Pacific region while facilitating global interactions among our readers.
For more than two decades, Dental Asia is the premium journal in linking dental innovators and manufacturers to its rightful audience. We devote ourselves in showcasing the latest dental technology and share evidence-based clinical philosophies to serve as an educational platform to dental professionals. Our combined portfolio of print and digital media also allows us to reach a wider market and secure our position as the leading dental media in the Asia Pacific region while facilitating global interactions among our readers.
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PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS<br />
Glidewell<br />
Glidewell offering new BruxZir Aesthetic Zirconia Milling Blanks<br />
Glidewell has launched the BruxZir Aesthetic<br />
Zirconia Milling Blanks, a new BruxZir family<br />
product.<br />
Produced in California by Prismatik<br />
<strong>Dental</strong>craft, a subsidiary of Glidewell, the<br />
aesthetic zirconia formulation is designed<br />
for dental technicians seeking a restorative<br />
solution that delivers beautiful results for<br />
any clinical situation. It will be introduced to<br />
dental laboratories in the US during LMT Lab<br />
Day Chicago.<br />
Over a decade ago, Glidewell unveiled<br />
BruxZir Zirconia, a monolithic ceramic<br />
material formulated to deliver hammerresistant<br />
strength and gentle opposing wear.<br />
The high demand and continued research<br />
and development led Glidewell to create the<br />
BruxZir Aesthetic formulation, which offers<br />
greater translucency to address anterior<br />
indications.<br />
Engineered specifically for the anterior, the<br />
new milling blanks offer an ideal combination<br />
of strength and translucency required to<br />
satisfy a range of clinical indications, from<br />
single-unit crowns to veneers, bridges,<br />
screw-retained restorations and even fullarch<br />
implant prostheses.<br />
"The introduction of BruxZir Zirconia spurred<br />
a change in dentistry that is still reverberating<br />
more than a decade later," said Jim Glidewell,<br />
founder and president of Glidewell. "Today,<br />
we think BruxZir Aesthetic is the best dental<br />
restorative material ever produced. With<br />
BruxZir Aesthetic, we're building the digital<br />
laboratory of the future."<br />
With an average flexural strength of 980MPa,<br />
BruxZir Aesthetic Milling Blanks meet the<br />
Class 5 requirement for dental ceramics.<br />
According to Glidewell, blanks are available<br />
in multiple thicknesses: 14, 16, 20 and 25mm.<br />
They can also be purchased in preshaded<br />
formulations equivalent to the<br />
16 shades from the VITA shade system,<br />
complemented by Glidewell's bleach<br />
shades. ■<br />
The new BruxZir exhibits high translucency<br />
while meeting ISO strength requirement for<br />
dental restorations<br />
Myerson<br />
Myerson announces successful validation of Trusana Premium 3D Printing Resin<br />
on Asiga Printers<br />
Myerson, a manufacturer of digital dental<br />
materials, announced that it has successfully<br />
completed its validation of its Trusana<br />
Premium 3D Printing Resin to print premium<br />
denture teeth using Asiga 3D Printers.<br />
Jim Swartout, president and CEO of<br />
Myerson, expressed the company’s<br />
enthusiasm at partnering with<br />
Asiga, who specialises in digital<br />
manufacturing: “Our material<br />
science team has been super<br />
impressed with the intelligent<br />
design of the Asiga printers.<br />
The accuracy of the Asiga<br />
printers is critical in ensuring<br />
Trusana’s ideal physical and<br />
optical properties.”<br />
Trusana Premium 3D Printing Resin by<br />
Myerson (Image: Myerson, via Zahn <strong>Dental</strong>)<br />
Myerson’s Trusana 3D printing resin<br />
recently won RadTech/UVA’s “Emerging<br />
Technology” award for additive<br />
manufacturing. Trusana’s chemistry<br />
delivers an aesthetic unfilled polymer<br />
with high strength, fracture toughness<br />
and wear resistance, beyond that of<br />
conventional filled 3D dental polymers.<br />
Trusana also mirrors the beauty and<br />
translucency of a natural smile.<br />
Stephanie Benight, Myerson’s director of<br />
3D Printing Projects, said, “As a scientist,<br />
I have spent my career characterising<br />
the properties of polymers, including<br />
photopolymers. Creating a 3D printing<br />
material that not only has toughness, but<br />
maintains that toughness in the presence<br />
of water, has been difficult to achieve, but<br />
Myerson’s Trusana does it. Materials that<br />
harness new chemistries are the future<br />
of photopolymer 3D printing, and<br />
Trusana represents the cutting-edge.”<br />
Zahn <strong>Dental</strong>, the US dental laboratory<br />
business of Henry Schein, is the<br />
exclusive distributor of Trusana.<br />
“Zahn’s dental laboratory customers<br />
rely on us to serve as their total<br />
solutions partner,” said Rita<br />
Acquafredda, president, Global<br />
Laboratory Business, Zahn Lab<br />
Group. “By offering Trusana — a<br />
game-changing material that can<br />
help advance the digitalisation of<br />
dentures — we can continue to deliver<br />
on our commitment of helping dental<br />
laboratories stay on the forefront of<br />
digital dentistry.” ■<br />
68 DENTAL ASIA MARCH / APRIL <strong>2022</strong>
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