W&H News

With the risk of cross-infection, the increasing need to legally protect dental practices and stricter norms, buying a sterilizer can be a minefield. Here is a brief guide to what a dentist should know before investing in a new sterilizer.

Ozone therapy is used to describe procedures that use the gas ozone (a triatomic oxygen module, O₃). The germ-killing and disinfecting effect of ozone has been scientifically proven. What is the effect of ozone on bacteria from a scientific point of view?

Prozone is a medical ozone generator that produces air with a specific ozone content. Prozone is suitable for disinfection in all dental applications.

A dental technician works continuously with handpieces and turbines. Wolfgang Weisser has worked with most drive systems from a wide range of manufacturers for many years. Here, he talks about one of his favourite systems. User report: Wolfgang Weisser (Germany)

The effectiveness of dental treatment depends largely on how well the oral structures that are to be treated can be recognised. Delicate instruments with fibre optics and press button chuck systems are available to dentists in conservative/prosthetic dentistry today. User report: Dr. Neugebauer, Dr. Karapetian, Dr. Lingohr, Dr. Scheer, Univ. Prof. Zöller (Cologne)

The application of intraoperative positioning aids in the form of implant drilling templates allows those who are new to implantological procedures, and also experts, to work confidently when carrying out targeted prosthetic oriented implant insertion.
User report: Dr. Neugebauer, Dr. Karapetian, Dr. Lingohr, Univ. Prof. Zöller (Cologne)

An innovative implant positioning aid makes it easier to find the optimum implant position – will it therefore replace the drilling template?
User report: Dr. Lang, Dr. Michalides (Bremen)

The new W&H laboratory equipment was presented for the first time at IDS 2007 in Cologne and less than a year later, the multi-functional Perfecta devices are enjoying great popularity and receiving excellent feedback. An Italian dental laboratory offered the following praise for the Perfecta 900.

Here are commments from dentists, oral surgeons and maxillofacial surgeons regarding the new surgical straight and contra-angle handpieces with LED and generator.

Excellent lighting conditions facilitate perfect treatment results. That is why W&H has developed a new generation of surgical instruments that enable you to operate with daylight quality light - and with light sources that are self-sufficient.

White, light emitting diode (LED) is the future for illuminating the operation site during treatment. Halogen bulbs in dental instruments are a thing of the past.