Ivoclar Vivadent

Speed Up Your CAD/CAM Practice: Ivoclar Vivadent Presents New Open Combination Furnace for Quick Crystallizing, Sintering, and Characterizing

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For more than 40 years, Ivoclar Vivadent has been presenting continuous innovations in the field of dental furnaces with its Programat® series. Now, the success story continues with the introduction of the all new Programat CS6. The new open combination furnace can crystallize, sinter, characterize and glaze all-ceramic restorations faster than ever before with unsurpassed … Read more

Easy and Economical Zirconia Cementation

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ZirCAD® Cement is a new high performance resin modified glass ionomer cement designed for everyday use, and ideal for high-strength zirconia and metal-based restorations. ZirCAD Cement allows the clinician to deliver predictable cementation results case after case with its easy handling, tack-cure option and quick clean-up. ZirCAD Cement from Ivoclar Vivadent perfectly balances product reliability … Read more

Press Technique Turns 30: Laboratory-Tested and Future-Proof

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Every four seconds, somewhere in the world, a restoration made with Ivoclar Vivadent pressed ceramics is placed. Despite the arrival of other new fabrication methods, dentists and dental technicians continue to trust this unique procedure – using it with enthusiasm and conviction. What is the secret of the sustained success of this technique? We take … Read more

Trust Builds Confidence: 10-Year IPS e.max® guarantee.

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More than 150 million IPS e.max restorations placed[1] with a survival rate of 96%2 during more than 15 years of clinical use is the foundation of confidence upon which we offer the IPS e.max guarantee to our customers. The exclusive IPS e.max guarantee is as strong as the material itself.       Our complete confidence and … Read more

Taking Care of Each Other

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Ivoclar Vivadent is all about Making People Smile.  It is the spirit that inspires their employees to go the extra mile. It’s about developing innovative solutions that allow dental professionals to improve the patients quality of life rather than just simply fixing a tooth. It’s about creating relationships and Taking Care of Each Other.

An Interview With Christian Brutzer, President of Ivoclar Vivadent North America

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By: Howard S. Glazer, DDS FAGD Christian Brutzer was named the President of Ivoclar Vivadent North America in July and I recently caught up with him in San Francisco at the American Dental Association meeting. We have known each other for over 20 years and I was honored that Christian agreed to share the story … Read more

Henry Schein, Ivoclar Vivadent Announce Plans for Distribution of The New PrograMill One Milling System

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Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) and Ivoclar Vivadent AG announced today the plans for distribution of the new PrograMill One Milling System, where the companies do business together. As a wireless system, the PrograMill One is a self-contained unit that allows the mill to be placed anywhere within a practice and does not require any … Read more

Nifty Helper For The Dental Practice – Used A 100 Million Times Over*

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OptraGate: new sales record by Ivoclar Vivadent Thanks to its special design, the OptraGate lip and cheek retractor has achieved movie star status. Sprinkled with stardust though it may be, this ingenious little item is above all handy and comfortable. And now it hit the 100-million sales mark. Ivoclar Vivadent celebrated this success with international … Read more

Ivoclar Vivadent CEO Robert Ganley Receives Excellence in Health Care Award

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Ivoclar Vivadent congratulates Robert A. Ganley, CEO, for being honored with the Excellence in Health Care Award. Presented by Business First of Buffalo late last month at a special ceremony in downtown Buffalo, New York, the 2019 Excellence in Health Care Award recognizes Ganley as being among the top men and women in the Western … Read more

Ivoclar Vivadent Continues to Grow

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The business year has been characterized by different local currency growth rates. In Europe, Ivoclar Vivadent grew by 4%. Similarly positive growth rates were recorded for Latin America (+16%) and Asia/Pacific (+4%). “Our investments in the developing markets have proven to be extremely profitable. This is because Brazil, Mexico, Russia and China in particular have … Read more

How to place better composites…

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From the AACD blog….. AACD member, Dr. Amanda Seay, presents a how-to piece in the current issue of Dental Products Report, “How to better place posterior composites” using Ivoclar Vivadent‘s Tetric EvoCeram to help solve premature polymerization problems. Read it online here: http://bit.ly/qKrOUi Related articles Agenesis of the lateral incisors treated with Straumann Bone Level implants and Etkon … Read more

Veneer chipping: Is one fabrication process better than another?

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By Rob Goszkowski, Assistant Editor of Dr. Bicuspid May 16, 2011 — Joining CAD/CAM fabricated veneers to CAD/CAM fabricated zirconia frameworks can reduce veneer chipping frequency and speed the fabrication process. Researchers at Ivoclar Vivadent evaluated the fatigue behavior of two different systems during cyclic/static loading and found that the IPS e.max CAD-on fabrication technique with lithium disilicate … Read more

Ivoclar Vivadent Press Conference at the IDS

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My recent trip to the IDS in Cologne, Germany kicked off with the Ivoclar Vivadent press conference, held on Monday, March 21st. Mr. Robert Ganley, CEO of Ivoclar Vivadent AG, was “pleased to report a significant sales growth of 9.5% for the business year 2010”. Company performance was strong in all global markets–sales in Europe increased … Read more

Toronto CEREC Study Club and Ivoclar Vivadent Lecture

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I was privileged last week to be part of a special programme put on by the Toronto CEREC Study Club and Ivoclar Vivadent. The session was entitled “Contemporary Ceramics: A Closer Look at the Materials”. After a wonderful cocktail hour with generous refreshments and wonderful opportunities to network, the 30 plus attendees were ushered into … Read more