Solventum has long been trusted to solve dental professionals’ clinical needs with quality solutions rooted in science—a commitment that's led to a dozen Readers’ Choice awards spanning the popular Clinpro, Filtek, RelyX, and Scotchbond product families. Here, we highlight key solutions in those product lines.
Giving High-Risk Patients an Added Boost
Used in place of conventional toothpaste and available in Bubble Gum, Vanilla Mint, and Spearmint flavors, Clinpro 5000 provides strong protection against early lesions and lesion progression by delivering high-quality mineral throughout the tooth —not just at the surface.
“When used regularly, we notice that decalcifications on the facial get very inactive and harden up,” Dr. DeStefano explained. “Many small lesions do not get worse, and the rate of new caries is much less than without Clinpro. Overall, it's an excellent product!”
Hygienist Lydia Pope couldn't agree more, recommending Clinpro 5000 to her high-caries-risk, ortho, and perio patients.
"For those with high caries risk, it gives the patient an added boost of fluoride to help lower the risk of decay," she said. "For ortho patients, it protects around brackets to prevent white spot lesions, and for perio patients, it helps protect root exposures and sensitive areas after scaling and root planing.”
Pope's high-risk patients use Clinpro 5000 daily and receive in-office fluoride treatments every 3 months.
"I have found it helps arrest areas that have potential for decay," she added. "Patients who use it seem to be more aware of their teeth and want to do better. It’s a win-win! Plus, everyone likes the flavors.”
3M Clinpro Sealant
A light-curing and fluoride-releasing pit-and-fissure sealant infused with color-changing technology, 3M Clinpro Sealant goes on pink when applied to the tooth surface, and then changes to white when exposed to light. The pink color enhances visibility, making sealant placement faster and easier.
“I like when sealants go on pink and turn white when cured so I can see where the flow of sealant material is,” said Allison Koska, RDH, who applies Clinpro Sealant to both her adult and pediatric patients.
Offering long-lasting protection, Clinpro Sealant’s low-viscosity formula flows easily into pits and fissures, securely bonding to enamel and aiding in caries prevention.
Filtek Universal’s longer, 8-mm tip and flexible opening enable easy placement, allowing the material to extrude like a flowable and then become viscous during shaping.
Filtek Universal’s longer, 8-mm tip and flexible opening enable easy placement, allowing the material to extrude like a flowable and then become viscous during shaping.
“The tip design really allows for easy placement, and the angle makes it accessible to hard-to-reach spots,” noted Keith Schwartz, DMD. Dr. James Yang agreed that “the rede-signed tip makes it a breeze to access Class IIs and Vs.”
“It’s always discouraging to place a visible composite and have it not blend into the tooth’s color,” Dr. Francis Jacobyansky said. “Filtek Easy Match was an improvement as it tended to pick up underlying tooth color. It truly simplified my shade matching.”
3M Filtek Supreme Flowable
Filtek composites are always improving, and Filtek Supreme Flowable Restorative is a prime example. Several years ago, a new ergonomic syringe design and user-friendly triangle fi nger plate made the composite easier to hold and inject, while also virtually eliminating bubbles and material run-on during dispensing.
“There were no bubbles that had to be retreated,” Dr. Gregg Fink shared. “It provided excellent-quality restorations and a great dispensing design.”
The cannula is easily bendable by hand for access to the prep area, which led Ira Biderman, DDS, FAGD, to declare: “It was easy to use in any Class II restoration. It flows great into all areas where it's needed and stacks well."
Filtek Supreme Flowable can be warmed up to 158º F for up to an hour, up to 25 times, which lowers extrusion force to improve adaptation to the tooth.

Scotchbond and RelyX: A Dynamic Duo for Excellent Adhesion
Like peanut butter and jelly and sunshine and rainbows, some things are simply better together—designed not just to complement, but also to elevate each other’s performance. In restorative dentistry, few pairings demonstrate that synergy as seamlessly as 3M Scotchbond Universal Plus Adhesive and 3M RelyX Universal Resin Cement. Engineered to function as a unified system, this duo brings efficiency, reliability, and versatility to the cementation workflow.
Just ask Stephen Gordon, DDS, who dared to tell DPS, “This is the best cementation system I have used in my 42 years of dental practice.”
Fewer Steps Lead to Success
The powerful duo is composed of RelyX Universal, a self-adhesive resin cement with excellent adhesion, and 3M Scotchbond Universal Plus Adhesive, a single-bottle solution compatible with all direct and indirect bonding techniques. Used together, the 2 products eliminate the need for multiple cementation materials, while streamlining workflows and simplifying inventory.

The adhesive also bonds and seals caries-affected dentin, forming a well-defined, void-free hybrid layer that helps prevent secondary decay. This encourages more minimally invasive procedures while maximizing preservation of natural tooth structure.
"The challenge was always that you needed to get rid of anything with decay,” Dr. Hodges said. "And often, you’d create a situation where you’re deeper than you’d like to be. Now, you can be sure that you don’t have to remove all of the sclerotic dentin because this will seal it and bond to it.”
RelyX Universal: Waste Not, Want Not
For Dr. Peter Dantini Jr., the ability to cement any type of crown or restoration without needing extra materials sounded like a dream come true. Lucky for him, his dream became a reality after trying out RelyX Universal Resin Cement at Dantini Dental in Stamford, CT.
The self-adhesive resin cement delivers exceptional bond strength for virtually all direct and indirect bonding indications—with or without light curing—and with no need for an additional adhesive.