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Tigon+ and Tigon - Scaling has never been so comfortable and easy. The new piezo scaler are ultrasonic scaler with an LED handpiece, a perfectly matched range of tips and is ideal for all applications – endodontics, restoration, prophylaxis, periodontology, implantology.

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Attractive and powerful are two words that perfectly describe the new W&H Implantmed. The new drive unit excels by virtue of its ease of operation, a powerful motor and a motorised thread cutter function.

What high-speed instruments are currently available for the field of restoration and prosthetics? What are the current technological trends and what new developments are being worked on in terms of motor, chuck system, light, cooling or maintenance? The following information is intended to provide up-to-date advice on the crucial issue of what to consider when buying your instruments.

Ozone gas also demonstrably helps in the treatment of surface caries, promotes wound healing and epithelization and supports professional prophylaxis.
Svea Baumgarten, Dr. med. dent., M Sc, accredited implantologist shares her experiences with ozone treatment.

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?

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 enclosed table should help you to find your way in the jungle of the various straight and contra-angle handpieces with the widest variety of step-up and step-down speed ratios.

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)