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SOPA in your mouth

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I have a soft spot in my heart for funny Engrish. Except when the person writing it has a blatant disrespect for patents, trademarks, and such. Isolite Systems has a slam-dunk product that has been previously featured here on DentalBuzz, and yes, we’ve even suggested that a clever hack was available which still gives the Isolite company a repeat source of income. There’s hacking, and then there’s design forgery.

 

This introductory email should sufficiently scare you away from even thinking about going to the dark side:

Dear Sir/Madam:

Good day! I am very pleasure to send you an E-mail to introduce our product– ISOlight Shining Suction! Pls check attachment. This product can bring a few of advantage for dentistry:

1. Work Faster, Brighter, Drier

ISOlight Shining Suction is with a continuous, powerful and shadowless illumination. Dentist can see it mach more clearly inside mouth, then they can work accurately and faster. The special design mouthpiece can supply a widely space for dentist. Operation become more convenience. This device can connect with high/low suction. then the water will go throuth mouthpiece and maintain mouth drier. The patient doesn’t need to get up the spit the water.

2. Shining Suction Stop Interruption and save more time, dentst can get more appointment

Base of the advantage, dentst can complete the operation faster and patient become more comfortable. EACH OPERATION WILL BE FAST 25%-30%. In the same working time, dentist can take more appointment and create more profit. In the same time, dentist and patient would not feel tried.

3.  Save Work

Shining Suction supply self-suction. Nurse doesn’t need to stay beside patient and hold high/low suction. She/he will be free to do the other assistance such as: mix the colophony and materail, clean the instrument, do autoclavable, pass and take the instrument etc. Then dentist can do operation more dedicated.

4. Safe

Special Mouthpiece will protect tongue and cheek. Patient will not be easy to get hurt.

5. Better Ergonomics

The ergonomic design of Shining Suction reduces fatigue and repetitive stress associated with retraction, suctioning, eyestrain, and motion spent adjusting headlights, overhead light or otherwise positioning the patient for better access or visibility.

6. Save Cost

The bright shining suction will supply the powerful light in mouth. Dentist doesn’t need to buy expensive fiber optic product, such as: Fiber optic handpice, fiber optic scaler, headlight, etc.

ISOlight Shining Suction is the new revolution dental product with many useful advantage. It will definitely help you increase your efficiency and profit. ISOlight will be your best assistant on your job.

If you have any question, pls feel free to contact me.

Do you still fight in the hard competition of old product? Do you still think about how to increase your business? Do you still warry about the profit reduce of old product? I think it is time to indraught ISOlight Shining Suction to help you.

For more detail and best distributor price, pls send E-mail to reference with your company detail.

Sincerely waitting for your reply. Have a nice day! Best regard

Kevin Guan, Export Manager, Codent Technology Co., Ltd

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If you ever see any other dental product knockoffs let us know here at DentalBuzz so we can “out” the dastardly company. SOPA and PIPA censoring isn’t the answer to problems like this on the internet. Awareness can only go so far, too. The real stand today has to be internal, so make sure that you continue to promote good enterprise instead of just free enterprise.

And it’s so hard for me to stand firm on my ethics because they make some REALLY CUTE HERMES BAG knockoffs out there! But I must stand up. For Isolite. And for every innovative company online that does its best to stay honest.

Suction supermod

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by Trish Walraven

Rubber dams, meet silicone simplicity! Awkward assistants, take your cheek retraction and spit-sucking attempts elsewhere. You have both been banned from the operatories where isolation mouthpieces rule supreme.

First brought to market in 2005, Isolite™ Systems originated the idea of combining dryfield illumination and isolation in a patented product called the Isolite, which costs about $1700 per operatory to set up. Whoa, steeeeep. The tubing and LED Smart Stick sure isn’t their loss leader, now, is it? Then you still have to buy a $2.50 mouthpiece for each patient because they’re not sterilizable. All of it together is still easier and less expensive than your assistant.

But what if you want to keep your assistant, even though she kicks you under the chair all those times you say something stupid to a patient or start getting all OCD over a procedure? You’ve already ditched your overhead lamp for loupe-mounted headlights, so maybe you don’t even need the Lite part of the Isolite.

About a year ago, Isolite™ Systems indroduced a non-illuminating version called the IsoDry that runs a little less than half the cost of the original product. Both systems come with extra tubing. Tooobing. Makes me want to laze down the Guadalupe River with a six-pack in a styrofoam cooler. Don’t we have enough tubes and hoses to twist around each other already?

This brings us to the essence, the soul, the very magic of what makes the Isolite System the game-changer that it has become. It’s all about the mouthpiece. This transparent, comfortable, easy-to-insert soft piece of silicone not only attaches to high-speed suction to create a dry field, it replaces bite blocks, throat packs, cotton rolls, drying angles, and everything else that you used to cram in your patient’s mouth to create a perfect restorative environment.

But in order to use the mouthpiece, the rule is, you have to buy an Isolite or an Isodry. You can’t just stick it onto your high-speed suction and use it solo.

Or can you?

Mark Frias, RDH, can hook you up to go commando. Literally. He’s invented a hook-up mod for the Isolite mouthpieces that must have been driven by the frustration of trying to keep a squirmy six year old’s teeth dry for sealants with traditional isolation. You can see the differences between his design and the original Isolite on the left. It’s not sleek and sexy, but from a cost perspective this little adapter is a no-brainer. Mark calls it the Kona Adapter. Why? Is he an Ironman Triathlete from Hawaii? Actually, I think he named it after his dog.

Whatever the case, the ingenuity here is striking at a great moment. Mark is having difficulty keeping Kona Adapters in stock if that’s any indication of its demand.

For those who are concerned about taking business away from Isolite, Mark suggests purchasing a single system for one of your operatories and fitting the rest with Kona Adapters. This will give you the privilege of being an official Isolite customer so that you can be assured that you aren’t buying mouthpieces on the down low.

And everyone really wins here. Isolite could give the system away like Gillette gave away razor handles to sell you the blades for the rest of your life, or use the printer model: sell the hardware cheaply to lock you into high-priced ink refills. It’s not like Isolite Systems is exactly losing money on the mouthpieces. With this new adapter, Isolite can now make money from the dental practices that may have not been able to justify a whole-office use of their product.

So slippery-gripped assistants everywhere: Ding! You are now free to move about the office. Your hands have finally been relieved without a significant lightening of your employers’ bank accounts.


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