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About 6,000 dental professionals recently attended Sirona Dental's Cerec 30th anniversary event in Las Vegas. The event included presentations from company executives, clinical lectures, and celebrities, as well as new product launches. View our slideshow of highlights here.
This is a time of growth in the CAD/CAM market along with the introduction of many new products, as evidenced by the news that we feature every day in our CAD/CAM Community.
Coltene announced it has become a new material partner for Sirona Dental System's Cerec CAD/CAM system and will launch Brilliant Crios reinforced composite blocks in the first quarter of 2016. Read more here.
The market for CAD/CAM blocks in Europe surpassed $78 million in 2014, a 10% increase compared with 2013, according to a new report on dental prosthetics and CAD/CAM devices by iData Research. Read the article here.
Statasys has launched the Object30 Dental Prime compact 3D printer. The printer is designed to enable smaller dental labs to produce a wide range of dental and orthodontic appliances in-house and comes with three PolyJet 3D printing materials. Read more here.
In one of the biggest pieces of business news to emerge in some time, Dentsply International and Sirona Dental Systems announced a merger of the two companies on September 15. The merger, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2016, will make Dentsply Sirona one of the largest manufacturers of professional dental products and technologies in the world. Read more here.
