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Increase Your Practice’s Revenue Stream: Add Botox® to Your Services
Botox® is widely known for its cosmetic uses, but its therapeutic applications are just as impressive. When it comes to bruxism and TMJ disorders, Botox® can be a game-changer. It works by relaxing the muscles involved in teeth grinding and jaw clenching, which can reduce both the pain and the...
Introducing Silmet's New Self-Adhesive Cements Kit for Dental Professionals.
This Self-Adhesive Cement Kit is designed to meet thediverse needs of modern dental practices. It showcases a range of cementsolutions, developed by Silmet and also includes a complementary modulardrawer organizer to help the dentist keep their materials well-organized. Each material has its own strengths and idealapplications: ProGlass Plus Cem: Self-Adhesive Resin Modified...
Zirconia in Indirect Restorations: Clinical Insights on Cleaning, Cementing, Adhesion, and Primer Usage
Achieving strong adhesion to zirconia necessitates using a zirconia-specific primer. Traditional silanes used for ceramic restorations are ineffective with zirconia. A zirconia primer, such as Silmet’s ProLink Cem Primer, contains MDP-based chemistry that ensures proper chemical bonding to zirconia. This primer must be applied as the initial layer, followed by...
Exploring the Versatility and Performance of Glass Ionomer in Modern Restorative Dentistry
In the complex field of restorativedentistry, selecting the right restorative dentalrestorativedental material is essential to ensuring that dental procedures last a longtime and look good. Glass Ionomer (GI) cement stands out among the variety of materials available as a dependable and adaptable choice, valued for its excellent qualities and distinctive composition. Composition...
Unveiling the Bizarre: Exploring Weird and Unusual Dental Trends from Around the Globe
When it comes to dentistry, we often think of routine cleanings, fillings, and braces, yet people of many cultures see teeth not only as just an instrument for biting or chewing food, but also as a reflection of a person’s overall status and wealth. In today’s society, we view the...
Choosing and Using Dental Cements
The world of dentistry has come a long way in the past 50 years. Gone are the days when dentists had a simple choice between gold crowns and zinc phosphate cement. Today's dental professionals face a complex array of restorative materials and luting cements, each with its own strengths and...
We Love Silmet Dental Products!
We Love Silmet Products! High Quality at an Affordable Price We are proud to carry a large variety of Silmet products including restorative materials, composites, amalgam, ionomer cement, bonding agents and self-adhesive resins. Silmet Ltd. is an Israeli family owned business founded in 1967. Their products are comparable to Dentsply,...
Advances in Cosmetic Dentistry
Technological advances are getting increasingly smarter. 3D printing and AI are two areas that are a hot topic today. Let’s dive in and see how these advances are starting to be applied to cosmetic dentistry. 3D printing has been around for years now but has only been used more recently...