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Indie Dental Showcase

Fresh entrepreneurs, wheel re-imaginers, and over-the-edge dental products and services are what makes these independent businesses so crazy good. You need some of this stuff, seriously, and you won’t find all these suppliers listed anywhere else but here. You don’t even have to ask Schein or Patterson to move over because there’s nothing getting in the way of you having good products at good prices from real people in dentistry.

Don’t see your product listed or know of something that should be here but isn’t? Then you MUST stop what you’re doing and send us a quick email or tweet or something before you leave this page. Thank you for your word-spreading part in keeping your supplier in business. Because how else are you going to continue getting the best of the best?
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LumaDent

If you’ve never used a headlight for illumination before, boy, are you in for a wow moment! Dentist Don Ton has created an affordable headlamp with everything you need to bring that focused macro world into full spectrum. Wanna good unbiased review before you purchase? We gotcha one right here on DentalBuzz.

Blue Boa™

Who would have ever thought that a four foot long blue tube could make such an ergonomic difference in the professional lives of so many dental hygienists? Ann Arrington, RDH did, and her dream is your aching back’s good night sleep as well. You can get this suction adapter and well-priced hygoformic saliva ejectors sent to you with a few shopping cart clicks.

SandyGrendel® TTL Loupes and Shield

It’s all about being lightweight in the end. Or in the front, of your eyes, of course. These are the least-expensive through-the-lens (TTL) loupes with a splatter shield available anywhere. They totally conform to your face, with bendable earpads, nosepads, and excellent optics. You’ll also love the personal service from this father-son duo in Switzerland (and a few other family members). You can’t beat Swiss-made precision, plus they also have featherweight headlights that boast good battery life. You’ll never cinch up a pair of loupes to your head again once you’ve gone with SandyGrendel SwissLoupes.

The Dental Rat

Or R.A.T., to be more precise. This “Remote Access Terminal”, invented by hygienist Becky Logue, is an effortless foot mouse that enables hands-free access to perio charting, intraoral cameras, digital x-rays and probably any other control that you can think of on your computer.

BlueNote Lights Dental Communication Software

Come on, you knew we had to bury this business website in here somewhere! From its debut in 2005, BlueNote Communicator has become the top-selling and most comprehensive intra-office software messaging system created especially for dental offices. The powerful concept of BlueNoting takes office communications to a level of intuition where team members hear a broadcast and instinctively know what to do.  BlueNote Communicator Classic is also still available for you nostalgia buffs. Both include 30 day free trials and are the lowest-priced dental communication software available.

Kona Adapter

Tongues and lips and spit and gagging must really be a problem because there are a lot of solutions out there. Mark Frias, RDH has come up with a great way to get supreme isolation for a lot less than you may have been paying before. Quick, read this DentalBuzz article about the Kona Adapter and then purchase a few for your office before anyone complains that a dental company is NOT ripping them off.

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DentalBuzz explores rising trends in dentistry with its own slant. The speed at which new products and ideas enter the dental field can often outpace our ability to understand just exactly the direction in which we are heading. But somehow, by being a little less serious about dentistry and dental care, we might get closer to making sense of it all.

So yeah, a tongue-in-cheek pun would fit really nicely here, but that would be in bad taste. Never mind, it just happened anyways. Stop reading sidebars already and click on some content instead.

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