Sealants

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  • Samantha Negraval
  • 08/29/2018

  Evidence Supports Using Pit & Fissure Sealant with Fluoride

  Are you using pit-and-fissure sealant? If you’re not, you’re in good company… but based on recent evidence-based clinical recommendations, you may want to reconsider and add this product to your armamentarium. Sealants have been around since the 1960s, and the general consensus among the dental community is that they prevent and control carious...

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  • Allison Walker
  • 10/05/2017

  Preventing Cavities with Prevent Seal

  Prevent Seal from Itena North America is a self-etching sealant intended to be used as a preventive measure in patients with a higher risk for developing cavities. It works by sealing the occlusal pits and fissures in permanent teeth with a waterproof layer of resin. This protects the tooth surfaces in patients with teeth that are difficult to...

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  • Julie Schmitt
  • 07/27/2017

  DPS Evaluators Choose Ultradent Products

  We recently asked our evaluators to select their favorite products in all kinds of categories for our “Evaluators’ Choice” issue, published in the June 2017 issue of Dental Product Shopper. One company’s products were repeatedly voted as top-notch in the industry. It shouldn’t be a surprise that 6 of Ultradent’s products were named as favorites...

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  • Allison Walker
  • 04/25/2017

  Fighting Cavities with Kidz Seal

  Kidz Seal Pit and Fissure Sealant from Taub Products was developed especially for use in public health sealant programs and pediatric dentistry, but of course it works just as well in the general dental practice treating kids, too. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in addition to guarding against cavities,...

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  • Julie Cullen
  • 12/11/2016

  Conseal f—Low Viscosity and More

  What’s important in a dental sealant? Ask just about any dentist or hygienist and top of the list is often low viscosity. Conseal f pit and fissure sealant from SDI has an incredibly low viscosity, which means it flows faster and deeper into all of the nooks and crannies so you have a tighter seal. End result? No place for bacteria to hide and...

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  • Julie Cullen
  • 10/06/2016

  Plan for the Future, Save a Bundle

  Almost like the annual spring cleaning ritual, this time of year we all start stocking up on all of the things we’ll need over the winter and into the new year. For me, that means buying lots of canned soups. My favorite is Amy’s Organic soup…tomato bisque, lentil, split pea. They’re quick to heat up on a cold afternoon, and they’re quite yummy....

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