Dental Asia November/December 2022

DENTAL UPDATES
Dentsply Sirona will continue to support World Oral Health Day in 2023
Dentsply Sirona was the award sponsor for
this year’s World Oral Health Day (WOHD) “Best
Branded Photo” award and has congratulated
the winners of the award — the Dental
Students Association from Etugen University in
Mongolia. The winning photo features teachers
and students posing with the WOHD 2022
#MouthProud frame and personalised posters
created by the group to teach kindergarten
children how to keep their teeth healthy.
“We have seen some great initiatives come
out of the 2022 campaign and we commend
the Etugen Dental Students Association for
their efforts to instill good oral health practices
in the next generation,” said Erania Brackett,
senior vice-president and chief marketing
officer at Dentsply Sirona. “Oral health is such
a central part of a person’s overall health and
wellbeing, and we are proud to once again
support World Oral Health Day in 2023.”
The award-giving ceremony took place
during the FDI General Assembly in Geneva,
Switzerland, on 22 Sep 2022. At the same
event, key results from WOHD 2022 were
presented and the 2023 campaign’s theme and
concept were disclosed. The 2023 campaign
focuses on the importance of maintaining lifelong
good oral health with its motto: “Be proud
of your mouth for a lifetime of smiles”.
Dentsply Sirona partners with FDI World
Dental Federation for WOHD 2022 as part
of its sustainability strategy “Beyond: Taking
action for a brighter world”. At its core is the
ambition to lead the transformation towards
a sustainable dentistry, increase quality of
and access to oral care globally and create 25
million smiles by 2025.
Brackett presented Dentsply Sirona’s ongoing
activities in which the company partnered
with dental professionals to promote the
importance of oral health for overall health to
their patients at the event at the FDI General
Assembly. To continue the momentum of WOHD
throughout the year, Dentsply Sirona recently
ran a social media campaign that promoted
the WOHD themes of emotional, social and
physical wellbeing, with a mixture of culture and
information posts to highlight oral health issues
and ways to create healthy smiles. Meanwhile,
DS Women, an employee resource group at
Dentsply Sirona, organised an employee-led
initiative to further oral health by collecting and
donating more than 4000 toothbrushes and
oral hygiene products for community-based
organisations serving families and individuals in
need in the US and Canada. DA
Ivoclar and exocad extend the options for digital
dentures with integration in DentalCAD
By integrating the Ivotion Denture add-on
module in the DentalCAD software solution
from exocad, Ivoclar has expanded its
partnership with exocad in the area of digital
dental workflows.
As one of the manufacturers of dental
CAD/CAM software in the dental industry,
exocad has a large customer base as
well as comprehensive experience in
dental software products. Thanks to this
collaboration, customers of both companies
can now enjoy a seamless workflow for
rapid digital fabrication of removeable
dentures.
As part of this cooperation, the Ivotion
Denture add-on module will be integrated
with the exocad DentalCAD system so that
users of the software can design their digital
dentures in the environment to which they
are accustomed. The optimised workflow
enables custom fabrication and a result that
is adapted to the needs of the patient.
Moreover, the integration also provides users
with access to the popular Ivoclar tooth libraries
with full-arch setups, morphing tools, and setup
features. For even better offer customisation,
the third gingival shade that was introduced for
the first time last year can also be used.
The Ivotion Denture add-on module from
Ivoclar also contains all the features of
the oversize workflow in combination with
the proven Ivotion Base, Ivotion Dent, and
Ivotion Dent Multi discs. To round off the
range of applications, the features of the
monolithic workflow with Ivotion and Shell
Geometry are also on board. DA
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