Dental Asia January/February 2023

DENTAL UPDATES
Henry Schein partners with Biotech Dental Group
Henry Schein, provider of healthcare
solutions to office-based dental and medical
practitioners, has announced a definitive
agreement with the shareholders of Biotech
Dental, provider of clinical software and oral
surgery and orthodontic products based
in Salon-de-Provence, France, to acquire a
majority ownership stake in the company.
Henry Schein and Biotech Dental will partner
to bring Biotech Dental’s full line of software,
products, and services, including dental
prostheses, clear aligners, dental implants,
regenerative solutions, and biomaterials, to
more dentists and dental laboratories as
well as new geographies. The closing of this
transaction is subject to certain regulatory
approvals.
Biotech Dental has several important solutions,
including Nemotec, a comprehensive,
integrated suite of planning and diagnostic
software using open architecture that connects
disparate devices to create a digital view of the
patient’s oral health condition, offering greater
diagnostic accuracy and an improved patient
experience. Biotech Dental is also one of the
fastest-growing implant and custom abutment
brands in France, as well as the manufacturer of
the Smilers brand of clear aligners.
In addition, Biotech Dental has launched
LaGalaxy, a comprehensive, open, and secure
software platform where both clinical and
administrative tasks can be performed. Within a
single platform, dentists and dental laboratories
benefit from end-to-end integrated digital
solutions that help improve case outcomes
while speeding treatment time, shortening case
completion, and lowering the costs of implants,
orthodontic, and prosthetic treatments.
“Henry Schein and Biotech Dental are committed
to offering customers best-in-class, userfriendly,
customer-centric solutions based on
open architecture that help improve patient
outcomes,” said Stanley M. Bergman, chairman
of the Board and CEO of Henry Schein. “Henry
Schein will, over time, incorporate Biotech’s
Nemotec software as part of our solutions
offering, including integrating Biotech’s
software solutions with Henry Schein One’s
industry-leading practice management
software solutions to create a leading endto-end
clinical system and to help dental
practitioners streamline their clinical as well as
administrative workflow.”
“We have continually grown to meet the
specialised and unique needs of dentists,
orthodontists, and dental laboratories,” said
Philippe Veran, founder and president of
Biotech Dental. “For the past 35 years, the
growth of our business has been rooted in our
rich French heritage. This will remain as we
continue to manufacture our products in France
while bringing innovation and new technologies
to the global dental community. Together,
with Henry Schein, we look forward to helping
our customers enhance their surgical skills,
achieve better outcomes for their patients, and
maximise business success.” DA
W&H will exhibit at IDS 2023
Bigger than ever before and with plenty
of products to discover — W&H will take
part in IDS 2023. True to the slogan “From
innovative products to sustainable solutions“,
the company is presenting forward-thinking
and sustainable technologies for the dental
industry.
“We are taking our trade fair booth to a whole
new level for IDS 2023. Visitors can look
forward to fascinating topics, digital highlights
and a new look and feel,” said Anita Thallinger,
director of Marketing and Market Service.
W&H has plenty to offer when it comes to
innovative products. One example of the
innovations referred to in its IDS slogan is the
new Piezomed module, the game changer in
piezosurgery. With this easy add-on solution
for the Implantmed, W&H is revolutionising
the surgical workflow and creating entirely
new treatment options for patients. Visitors
to their booth can also experience the Lara
XL, another product innovation in the field of
sterilisation.
But it does not stop there. The Assistina One
provides perfect processing and maintenance
of straight and contra-angle handpieces,
turbine handpieces, air motors and air-powered
scalers. This device automatically dispenses
the exact amount of W&H Service Oil and W&H
Activefluid required. This means instruments
can be sustainably maintained while also
saving on both resources and costs.
The OsstellConnect is another smart product
innovation from W&H, which takes the strain
out of day-to-day treatments in the dental
practice. This tool enables users to access data
at the push of a button to improve their dental
implant treatment.
W&H attaches particular importance to quality,
longevity, reparability, and reliability for its
products. Customers benefit from reduced
costs and save resources, modular solutions
and innovative technologies enable safe and
efficient treatments.
Visitors can expect an entirely new trade fair
look and engaging live demonstrations. The
medical technology company will also be
unveiling its first ever climate-neutral booth.
This will involve reducing emissions wherever
possible and offsetting them through a
selected climate protection project. W&H is
thereby setting the agenda for active climate
protection and underlining once more its
position as a pioneer in the dental industry. DA
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