Opalescence PF take-home bleaching system with 3% Potassium Nitrate and 0.11% fluoride ion offers the fast results of a 20% Carbamide Peroxide (equal to 7.2% Hydrogen peroxide) without the added sensitivity.

The Opalescence PF formula has been shown to be effective in removing discolorations and staining due to natural, congenital, traumatic, pharmacological and systemic causes.

Opalescence PF 20% is excellent for patients who have a known history of sensitivity to peroxide. It is also recommended for whitening discoloured teeth prior to placement of composites, veneers and crowns.

Opalescence PF 20% offers several treatment options for your patients.

• 30 mins 1-3 times a day if your patient prefers to whiten during the day. Results are achieved within 10 days.
• 6-8 hours nighttime wear. With the unique Opalescence Sustained Release formulation fantastic results are achieved within 5 nights!
  (Results are dependant on severity and type of staining)

As with the rest of the Opalescence range, Opalescence PF 20% can be combined with other concentrations of Opalescence to give patients a personalised tooth-whitening regime.

Opalescence PF 20% is available in Regular, Mint, Melon and Banana flavours Patient Kits and 40 syringe refill Kits.

Opalescence Tooth Whitening Toothpaste completes the family of tooth whitening products offered by Ultradent and is recommended for "Anti Stain" support following Opalescence bleaching treatment and for patients needing a high fluoride uptake without the potential systemic implications.

Sodium Fluoride (0.15%) is the active ingredient in this pleasant tasting gel and provides up to 4.8 times more fluoride to enamel while providing excellent stain removal. Opalescence toothpaste has the lowest abrasive levels tested and will provide maximum enamel and dentine restoration protection.

Opalescence toothpaste compares very favourably with other leading brands of toothpaste in anti microbal protection.

Opalescence Tooth whitening toothpaste is available in 1oz and 4.7oz tubes.

Hypersensitivity - What is it?

Dentine Hypersensitivity occurs when the tooth enamel wears away or is removed. The open dentinal tubules (over 30,000 per square millimetre) contain a fluid. Reaction to cold, sweat, and to a lesser extent, hot, sour and pressure (blowing air and / or drying the tooth) cause this fluid in the tubules to move. This movement creates a stimulus of the nerve endings, which is interpreted as a sharp and sudden pain. This "Hydrodynamic theory of pain" or "Brannstrom's Theory" is the most widely accepted cause of Dentine Hypersensitivity.

Who is most likely to suffer from it?

Dentinal Hypersensitivity can happen at any age. It is most common between the ages of 20 and 30and affects both males and females equally. Cold is the most common pain stimulus and 93% of the time the sensitivity is on the facial surface. Other major causes of dentinal hypersensitivity are gingival recession and most recently - tooth bleaching.

How D/Sense 2 works

D/SENSER2 works by reacting two clear, colourless inorganic salt solutions directly on the tooth surface. No mixing or light curing is required. Apply one liquid on top of the other, and a double exchange reaction takes place. The tubules are closed with a microcrystalline complex of four insoluble salts, plus a potassium salt. It takes less than two minutes, but the results are both immediate and dramatic. Clinically tested at a leading university on 160 patients with a wide range of applications, the success rate was an incredible 96%+. And it lasts and lasts, providing continuing relief to 120 days and beyond. If you cover D/SENSER2 with a crown or permanent restoration, the desensitising effect can last "forever".

Use D/Sense 2 Routinely

q Under ALL restorative treatments BEFORE you place them - D/Sense 2 has a film thickness of 3 microns so it will not interfere with the seating of temporary or permanent restorations. After testing at Louisiana State University D/Sense2 has virtually no effect on bond strengths to dentine.
q After Bleaching - Over 50% of patients who undergo whitening treatment will experience some post op sensitivity. D/Sense 2 can be safely used around soft tissues and will not stain the teeth.
q Cervical Erosions - D/Sense 2 will not cause adverse reactions to soft tissues so will effectively desensitise root surfaces.
q After root planing and periodontal treatment - D/Sense2 can be worked subgingivally to reduce discomfort before and after procedures.
q Classic hypersensitivity - Easily applied by you or your Hygienist when your patients complain about sensitivity to cold, pressure and sweet foods.

How well does it work and how long does it last?

In clinical studies* performed at the University of Rome D/Sense 2 showed a 96% success rate in a wide range of clinical applications. If D/Sense 2 was placed under a permanent restoration, the desensitising effect will last as long as the restoration remains viable. On teeth not covered by a permanent restoration, relief was found to be effective for 6 months or longer depending on the habits and the oral conditions of the patient. Repeat treatments of D/Sense 2 are quick and easy to apply at time of recall or prophy cleanings.

D/Sense 2 duel action desensitiser is available exclusively from Gunz Dental in the following kits

CEN310103 14ml kit Starter Kit
CEN310104 5ml kit Refill Kit

For more information regarding D/Sense 2 contact your local Gunz representative

Cross contamination in the Dental surgery today is an every day concern for the dental team. No where is this more prevalent than in the triple syringe handpiece. Satelec Pierre Rolland of France has introduced a new disposable syringe tip called Riskontrol, which eliminates the risk of cross contamination once and for all.

The unique design of the Riskontrol incorporates two independent tubes that guide air and water to the extremities of the tip providing totally dry air to the mouth. This is essential for any cementation procedures or operations that require totally dry field.

Attaching Riskontrol to you handpiece is easy to do with over 70 different adaptors available to equip 145 types of delivery systems. Simply screw or clip on the anodized adaptor to your syringe unit and away you go.

All adaptors come with 2 protective tips and 9depending on the type) a replacement seal to ensure optimum syringe performance.

Riskontrol is flexible and bendable as it is made from non-shape memory plastic. This plastic is also made from 100% recyclable food-quality plastic making it environmentally safe alternative for a disposable product.

Riskontrol is available in a non-sterile dispenser box of 250 white plastic tips.

The new CP-One clinical equipment package from Belmont introduces to dental practices the opportunity to offer patients a new concept in relaxation and communication, and allows the Operatory Team ideally located, highly functional equipment, designed to perform, without distraction, all clinical procedures.

Patients are invited to be seated in a superbly comfortable chair, located in an upright position, and not dissimilar to entering a first class aeroplane seat. The upright position provides the ideal environment for the Dentist, and patient, to easily, and equally, communicate in a very relaxed atmosphere. A further consequence of this unique chair design is the ability for the Dentist to approach the patient from the 6 o'clock position, a feature not provided for by any other traditional chair design. At the touch of a button, the chair smoothly reclines in an anatomical contour movement to the chosen treatment position, while the retractable legrest automatically extends out to fully support the patient. The 4-way powered headrest allows comfortable and accurate positioning of the patients head. Presented in seamless medical grade upholstery, and offered in a range of interesting décor colours, the CP-One chair introduces a first class environment for both communication and treatment procedures.

Illumination for treatment procedures is provided by the Belmont IO5000 operating light complete with natural colour temperature output, adjustable intensity, and a sensor beam on/off switch. The multifaceted reflector directs shadowless oral illumination from multiple angles reducing the need to continually adjust the light during operation.

Located on the Doctor's console, and duplicated on the Assistant's console, are the controls for chair and headrest. All other user friendly controls for equipment function are also conveniently located on the Doctor's console. Belmont CP-One is delivered standard with an abundance of features for both Doctor and Assistant including 4 handpiece lines, 2 air/water syringes, intraoral film viewer, digital indicator for handpiece status, large Doctor's work surface area, automated cuspidor and cupfiller, high and low velocity suction lines and the capability to add on accessory equipment on demand. The Doctor's console mounting eliminates the over the patient arm and allows for the console to be placed, out of sight, behind the chair during consultation. Belmont CP-One offers options for either low speed air motors and electronic micro motors.

Above all, CP-One is manufactured by Belmont, globally recognised for its outstanding reputation of first class reliability.

After 7 years of research Satelec Pierre Rolland has bought about the patented Expasyl system - A new technique in Temporary Gingival retraction. Lecturers, general practioners, prosthodontist and periodontist were bought together to test what has become the Expasyl system

Various techniques may be used for sulcular opening in taking a fixed prosthesis impression; electro-surgery, rotary curettage, single cord or double cord. Each has its own indication but all cause lesions of varying extent to the sulcular periodontium. These particular systems can sometime be fastidious to the operator and/or painful to the patient, making anaesthesia necessary.

Expasyl is an innovative system for access to the cervical margins. Expasyl for temporary gingival retraction causes no damage to tissue and preserves the epithelial attachment. It is painless, fast and Reliable, creating a dry operating field.

The Expasyl system separates the marginal gingiva from the tooth without damaging the epithelial attachment, in complete comfort for the patient. It ensures that gingival retraction can be reversed without damaging the tissue; therefore anaesthesia is no longer required. The paste is cleaned away with an air water spray with simultaneous suction: the periodontium is thus respected.

Expasyl exerts a moderate, calculated pressure on the marginal gingiva, slightly higher that the pressure the gum exerts on the tooth: 0.1N/mm2. The space created is about 1mm. The gum separates once Expasyl has filled the sulcus then flows away, and no further pressure is required on the epithelial attachment. Expasyl has a consistency, which is specially designed not to harm the periodontium, thereby avoiding the medium-term post-operative phenomena of recession or bone resorption. When the paste has been cleaned away, the sulcus is kept open long enough to carry out all types of operation.

Not only is Expasyl ideal for sulcular opening during impression taking for fixed prosthesis, it can also be used for gaining access to cervical margins for restoring class ll and V cavities, for fitting rubber dam, for periodontology (root planing etc.) and orthodontics (for fixing brackets). The retraction is temporary which means the gingiva returns to its original position after a few minutes, without damage.

With Expasyl, the opening of the sulcus does not cause bleeding or oozing - two phenomena that make dental impressions difficult or even impossible to take. The aluminium chloride contained in its formula provides astringent, haemostatic properties.

Expasyl is a fast system that saves up to 10 to 15 minutes per dental impression. Only 15 to 20 seconds are needed to apply the paste. Depending on the texture of the gum, gingival retraction occurs between 30 seconds and 2 minutes. End-result being a dry, wide-open sulcus with a total working time around 2-2 ½ minutes.

Contact your Gunz representative for an in surgery demonstration.

At IDS in Cologne earlier this year, DMG Hamburg introduced a new syringe delivery system that has taken the world by storm. Called Smartmix this compact double-barrelled syringe provides both automatic mixing and direct application in one, eliminating the need for a bulky dispensing gun.

Due to the small material content of 5ml, Smartmix is especially suitable for materials which require a small amount of application such as luting cement.

The Smartmix syringe is currently available for Permacem self cure compomer-luting cement

Contact your Gunz representative for a demonstration today.

This superior Core build up material comes to you from the innovative manufacturer DMG always "A Step Ahead". For the second time, LuxaCore Automix has received Reality's highest Five Star Award in the January 2001 issue.

LuxaCore the first core material available in an automix delivery system ensures predictable, accurate, consistent and homogenous mix every time. The material is dispensed with an applicator gun and automixed in mixing cannulas, which means, no manual mixing, no air bubbles, no wasted material due to over mixing, giving you the exact amount of material needed for each procedure. The intra oral tips provide more precise, direct placement of the material. The cartridge incorporates separate port outlets for base and catalyst, preventing cross contamination of material.

The compressive strength of LuxaCore is 310 Mpa, which is comparable to dentine, therefore the material once set, cuts like dentine. The fluoride releasing properties of LuxaCore gives you and your patient peace of mind in the prevention of secondary caries.

The material is available in two shades, Blue and A3. The blue shade is easily distinguishable from the remaining tooth structure, whereas the A3 is an excellent choice for optimum aesthetics beneath ceramic crowns. Radiopacity of the material provides easy identification on radiographs.

The self-curing properties of LuxaCore, eliminates layering of material and allows you to bulk fill. It has a composite viscosity, which ensures direct placement without slumping. The material is fast setting allowing immediate finishing of the crown prep. With a 72% filler by weight you provide the patient with a material that has excellent wear resistance and strength.

See for yourself the LuxaCore Difference!

DMG Hamburg has recently introduced a new automatic mixing device called the Mixstar. It is designed to provide hands free mixing and dispensing system for both foil and special cartridge format impression materials.

The Mixstar features include a simple on/off two-button operation, dual motors and sensors, built in timer, low material warning, and plunger reverse button and cartridge placement indicator. For even greater hands free flexibility, an optional foot switch is also available.

These convenient and simple to use features make for easy, fail-safe loading and dispensing of your impression material. A built in timer allows the operator to set for working time or recommended time in the mouth. All automatic cartridge systems are compatible with the Mixstar.

The Mixstar is easy to clean and disinfect owing to the ergonomically designed housing made of high impact resistant material. It provides a safe working environment due to the non-slip-coated foot of the machine.

Distributed exclusively throughout Australia by Gunz Dental Freephone: 1800 025 300

The world's first pre-filled, disposable whitening trays that offer the convenience of a supermarket system, but with the added advantage of being dentist supervised.

The new technology delivers a pre-filled membrane tray that is easily adapted as it adheres to the teeth. It is easily positioned onto the teeth up to the first molars for a custom fit, allowing for lingual and labial surfaces to whiten simultaneously with minimal chemical ingestion.

The thin membrane contains two distinct gels. The activating gel contains 9% hydrogen peroxide while the second is an additional layer of 3% carbamide peroxide preloaded along the gingival margin creating protection for the surrounding soft tissues while teeth are whitening.

Treswhite is the ideal tooth whitening alternative for patients who are not prepared to pay for a custom tray or power whitening treatment. It is available in both Mint and Melon flavours in 20 tray kits.

For Further information contact Gunz Dental on 1800 025 300