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It was in Greece this time: the semi-annual meeting of EDSA (European Dental Student Association). Thessaloniki, an important university, trading and cultural city, was the meeting place of more than 200 dental students from all over Europe for the week of 1-8 April 2012.

Proface provides a clinical aid in the detection of bacterially infected hard tooth tissue, particularly infected dentin. This way, caries excavation is more reliable than with traditional tools (probing the hardness, application of staining agents). The traditional tools only indirectly permit a conclusion on the bacterial infection of dentin.

Coming soon: The new Proface light probe by W&H enables direct visual detection of caries in opened cavities. While conventional methods only offer indirect information on the extent of caries in infected dentine, Proface gives dentists the ability to assess the treatment site at a glance.

With the Perfecta models, W&H has developed devices with which dental technicians can realise their full potential in the laboratory. An absolute world first: Both the motor handpiece and the high-speed handpiece include an integrated air-jet function. The user no longer has to keep reaching for the air gun and therefore saves a lot of time.

The weather could not have been better for the nineteen dental students from the University of Innsbruck for their tour of W&H Dentalwerk in Bürmoos on 23 March 2012. The students had the whole day for discussions of dental and business topics with experts.

The apprentices at W&H Dentalwerk had some prominent visitors looking over their shoulders on Friday 23 March: Mayor P. Eder and Austrian Minister of Social Affairs R. Hundstorfer discovered more about the high quality of training at W&H.

At the end of February "umwelt service salzburg" (Salzburg environment service), an institution for promoting environmentally friendly activities, recognised eight companies for their outstanding contributions to environmental protection. W&H was awarded a prize in the energy category.

W&H has been recognized as one of the leading companies in the field of dental hygiene and in particular in the sterilization area. This was much appreciated, thus W&H decided to further strengthen this contribution to the market in to emphasise its commitment towards partners and customers by introducing a person totally devoted to hygiene and sterilizer education, the hygiene "ambassador" of the W&H group.

For the third consecutive time, the "State of the Art – Surgical & Prosthetic Solutions in Implant Dentistry" congress was held in Zell am See (Salzburg, Austria). The enthusiasm of the participants and the extraordinary quality of the presentations of previous years persuaded Lorenzoni-Pertl (promoter) to organize a further programme of the congress: from 23 to 27 January 2012. The well-known Porsche Congress Centre was the venue for about 100 participating dentists from around Europe.

Since the launch of Lina at the IDS11, sales figures prove that Lina is a success not only in Europe. Lina is staying true to the W&H concept by offering exclusively type-B cycles and a short ECO-B cycle for your small loads.

Dental professionals and oral health industry specialists attended the three-day event from 31 January to 2 February 2012 in Dubai.It was a pleasure meeting you all at the AEEDC 2012 in Dubai, showing you our latest product innovations.

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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)