Dr. Steve Farley may be a dentist from a small town, but he’s making a big difference in the world. And he doesn’t plan on stopping any time soon.

With the popularity of laser dentistry increasing by the day, it’s fundamental that clinicians and their teams educate themselves on laser safety—to the benefit of themselves and their patients. Here are a few tips, as outlined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Laser Institute of America for keeping your patients and staff safe while enjoying the wonderful advantages dental lasers bring to your office. Ultradent's Gemini® 810 + 980 Diode Laser

Congratulations on taking the contest-winning photo spotlighted for the month of February in the Ultradent calendar and Facebook cover photo series! What is your name? Tony Harris What do you do here at Ultradent? I’m a Supplier Quality Engineer.

"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design." —Charles Eames “Creativity is sort of a well that you have to draw from constantly and if you don’t fill the well, you’ll begin drawing from poisoned waters. You constantly have to be looking for inspiration so that you don’t get stuck doing the same things over and over,” says JD Melville, a graphic designer at Ultradent Products, Inc., specializing in printed materials such as packaging, pamphlets, flyers, and hand-outs.

In 2016, Ultradent introduced the the highly-anticipated Jiffy Universal Finishing System —a universal finishing system of it’s kind in which the adjusters and polishers work interchangeably on all ceramics, including porcelain, lithium disilicate, and zirconia, and with equally good results. The adjusters and polishers contain specially formulated Ultradent diamond grit for optimal smoothness and outstanding polishing ability, which is essential to a quality good restoration. If a restoration isn’t finished properly, it can result in microfractures and abrasion of the softer natural dentition of adjacent teeth, as well as staining. Because of the extreme hardness of many of the modern restorative materials available today, effectively adjusting and polishing these restorations has become a challenge for dentists. So when Ultradent released the Jiffy Universal Finishing System, the reviews came pouring in. Based on a formal evaluation conducted by Dental Product Shopper in which ten randomly selected dentists used the Jiffy Universal Finishing System for several weeks, the Jiffy Universal Finishing System scored a 4.6 out of 5 rating, making it a Dental Product Shopper “Best Product.”

Hello! I hope you all got some fabulous R&R and have had a wonderful start to the new year, 2017. I’m very excited about what this new year has to offer. In fact, when contemplating what I am most looking forward to, it always comes back to the same thing—our people.