I would like to invite you to join us in providing better overall dentistry to your patients.  The dental marketplace is constantly evolving with new and exciting products, materials, and techniques.  We would like to share with you our discovery of new products that can provide a significant advancement to your ability to provide better care and treatment to your patients.  These Product Promos are available directly from our laboratory to you.

Additional, product-specific information, is available in the following sections:

The Accuracy of a Custom Tray
The Convenience of a Disposable Tray

• The BORDER-LOCK system is designed to fit the most common arch shapes (not ‘small, medium, and large”).
  The Border Lock tray is available in:
  Normal (4 tray sizes); Square (3 tray sizes); and Gothic (1 Tray size)
• Because the fit is anatomically correct for your patient, the impression space is reduced.  This means it delivers superior dynamic pressure around the arch during insertion, while using 40% less impression material.
• The tray’s posterior edge helps prevent excess material flow, which in turn eliminates gagging.

1. The BORDER-LOCK tray system includes a caliper to measure both the width and unique shape of the patient’s arch. 
2. Place the caliper on the size chart to easily identify the ideal BORDER-LOCK tray.  The chart will indicate which shape (normal, square, or gothic) as well as which size.
3. BORDER-LOCK trays limit the impression space, saving material and providing better accuracy.

Now that you are familiar with the many benefits of the Border Lock Trays, we would like to introduce you to our Exclusive Tray Exchange Program.  These trays are specifically designed to provide you with the accuracy of a custom tray with the convenience of a disposable tray. Through a special arrangement, we are able to provide you, at no cost, with a full maxillary and mandibular set of these trays, complete with convenient storage cases.  The trays are disposable and after use, and the completion of your case, we will provide you with a replacement tray to add to your set.  We will then add the tray price to your patient’s lab invoice. In a small way, this will lower your cost and at the same time provide better service to your patients. There’s no need for you to inventory extra trays or be caught short of the correct tray size for your patient. 

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Border Lock Trays or our Tray Exchange Program, please give us a call.

Using the laws of fluid dynamics, a prosthodontist at the University of Illinois came up with this simple device consisting of two water pads, connected by an equalizing channel.  When placed in the mouth, the Aqualizer allows both left and right sides of posterior segments to equilibrate with each other, allowing the muscles of mastication to relax.  Its floating action makes it an excellent tool to simplify TMD diagnoses & treatment planning.  It can act as a temporary pain control splint, as well as guide your equilibration technique for either teeth or splints.  

Aqualizer Muscle Directed Bite Registration
a perfect bite the first try

Step 1: – Insert an Aqualizer™ into the mouth allowing the muscles to bring the mandible to its natural, most comfortable 3-D position, (great in combination with T.E.N.S. and jaw tracking). Add base plate wax under pads for small increases of less than 2mm, if there is no spasm in the muscles, step two can be performed 10 minutes after insertion.
Step 2: – Instruct the patient to bite down naturally with the Aqualizer™ still in place, while injecting silicone from cuspid to cuspid.
Step 3: – Remove the Aqualizer™ with the anterior bite still in place. Inject registration material between the occlusal surfaces of the left and           right posterior teeth. Instruct the patient to close carefully into the previously established anterior bite. Allow the silicone to set.
Step 4: – Remove the one-piece full arch bite registration from the mouth.
Step 5: – Assemble the patient's dental casts accurately into the bite registration. Send this assembly to the lab, or mount the combined casts/registration assembly on your articulator.
Step 6: – Remove the silicone bite registration. The Aqualizer™ allows you to preview, and then accurately reproduce for splints, the most functional cranio-mandibular occlusal relationships.

Providing you with useful and innovative products and techniques is just another way we are working harder and smarter for your practice!