Monday, December 31, 2012
A massive amount of news makes it onto Dentalcompare during the course of a year.
News stories cover business moves, charitable activities and just about anything else dentists and the companies making products for dentistry do.
From the looks of this list of the 12 Most Popular Dentalcompare News Items of 2012, it’s clear that news of new product debuts is what people want to see.
12. PerioSciences Launches AO ProVantage Family of Antioxidant Oral Care Products
News of the launch of this line of oral care products designed to promote healing of soft tissue drew attention after they were announced at the 2012 Chicago Midwinter Meeting.
11. Ivoclar Vivadent Acquires Wieland Dental, Strengthens Position in All-Ceramics Marketplace
Mergers and takeovers have been regular news in the dental industry for the past few years, but news of Ivoclar taking over Wieland was the only one to make the Top 12 list for 2012.
10. New Dental Product: Carestream Dental CS 8100 Digital Panoramic System
The launch of new technology products always draws plenty of notice, and Carestream Dental certainly turned some heads at the ADA Annual Session with this sleek new panoramic imaging system.
9. Vatech America Launches PaX-i Dental Diagnostic X-ray System an Advanced Imaging Solution for Orthodontists
This attention getting product launch of a Pan/Ceph unit aimed at the orthodontist market is another example of how technology products are always of interest.
8. New Dental Products: DEXIS Announces New DEXIS Imaging Suite and Upcoming DEXIS go iPad App
Another big product launch from the ADA Annual Session, this one from DEXIS was announced at a gala event and the forthcoming iPad app was on display for attendees to test drive.
7. Zimmer Dental Launches Game-Changing Trabecular Metal Dental Implant
The launch of this new, dynamic looking implant was big news this year, but it turns out this wasn’t the most popular news item from Zimmer Dental in 2012.
6. Top-selling Dental Chair and Unit Now Available in North America
It’s probably the Italian styling that made so many people tune in to the announcement that Cefla’s Stern Weber S250 Dental Chair was coming to the U.S.
5. Sirona Introduces inLab Software 4.0
There were a number of major product launches for the dental lab market in 2012, but this major upgrade to Sirona’s laboratory CAD/CAM system drew the most attention.
4. New Dental Product: 3M ESPE Officially Announces 3M True Definition Scanner
Combining fast capture of highly detailed digital impressions with a price point far beneath the rest of its competition, 3M ESPE’s latest intraoral scanner was certainly one of the most talked about dental products of 2012…
3. 3M ESPE Announces Henry Schein as a Sales Partner for the New 3M True Definition Scanner, Also the Scanner Will Be Compatible with D4D’s Software and Mill
…And it turns out news of where you can buy a 3M True Definition Scanner and which other CAD/CAM systems it will work with was even more popular than the announcement of the new scanner itself.
2. Zimmer Dental Now Distributing IngeniOs Synthetic Bone Grafting Products
While Zimmer’s latest implant innovation drew some attention, it turns out more readers clicked over to learn about the company’s deal to distribute this line of synthetic bone graft materials.
1. Palodent Plus - Newest Sectional Matrix System from DENTSPLY Caulk
Why this short and sweet press release about this new sectional matrix system wound up as the most viewed news item of 2012 remains a mystery, but whatever the reason, it was seen by more readers than any other news item this year.