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🌟RANKED: Dentistry's 32 Most Powerful People

PLUS: Our 2024 Hygienist of the Year! See the full Summer Issue of Incisal Edge now: https://goben.co/46c1IoL

Happy Fourth of July! As we gather for picnics, parades, and fireworks, we also wish to thank our Veterans for their service and sacrifice. To demonstrate our commitment to those who have served, we are proud to sponsor Dental Lifeline Network's Lifeline Heroes Challenge to help Veterans receive much-needed dental care. Click the link to read how one Army Veteran was helped, and then click the “Donate” button to join us in this important effort! https://goben.co/3VN8DQt

🧠Michael Couch is a minority among the scientists, researchers, engineers and CTOs previously highlighted. His job title gives it away: He’s in marketing and has an MBA, not a Ph.D. But the sausage gets made differently for different products, and Midmark doesn’t create restoratives; it crafts environments. For lack of a better simplification, Couch is its dental environment ex*****on whisperer.

Read more about this beautiful mind: https://goben.co/4ajQtvB

🧠There's no way around it: developing innovative dental materials is expensive, especially the kind of which Kulzer’s Christoph Meier dreams. “This is a big difference to other industries,” he says, “in which you often have to deal with strict limitations of costs” and a lot is at stake. Under his watch, Kulzer leverages corporate synergies and economies of scale to do ambitious R&D, yet still brings valuable products to market.

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June 19th is observed as Juneteenth. This day marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday.

This day serves as a celebration of the progress attained by generations of fighting for freedoms and rights; it also serves as a reminder of the work yet to come that will be necessary in order to ensure a brighter, more equitable world for all children and future generations.

🧠You can't know where you’re going unless you understand where you’ve been. Timo Müller has devoted his entire 34-year career to dentistry, focusing exclusively on imaging since 2004. Having presided over massive technology shifts, he has a deep appreciation for how X-ray equipment has evolved, as well as strong insights about what’s to come.

Read more about this beautiful mind: https://goben.co/4ahih3R

🧠Many people fear artificial intelligence and view its rapidly expanding capabilities as a threat to humanity. Luckily, Walter Mollemans is among those devo­ted to ensuring that AI doesn’t become a runaway train. “I’m a big fan of looking at this stage of AI machine learning algorithms as an ‘assisted intelligence’ tool,” he says.

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🧠Handpiece design and manufacturing is like walking a tightrope of conflicting priorities. Just ask Sam Mosimann. Everybody wants low cost and high performance, but “if you want something produced fast and with quality, it won’t be cheap. If you want something cheap and fast, it won’t be with quality.” The answer, he says, is part engineering and part intellectual curiosity.

Read more about this beautiful mind: https://goben.co/4cLjphV

June is the start of LGBTQ Pride Month. Pride Month commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York and celebrates the LGBTQ community and the fight for equal rights.

Benco is proud to be a sponsor at our local PrideFest put on by Rainbow Alliance on June 23rd. https://goben.co/3yQbTT8

🧠Despite the shift to remote work, most science is still done in actual labs by actual humans. Little surprise, then, that Sunny Skaria has chosen to work smack-dab in the middle. If you want to innovate, you go where the innovators are. He leads a small team of Ph.D.s, chemical engineers, and chemists at Pulpdent, which has positioned itself as the leader in esthetic bioactive dental materials.

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🧠There are hardcore scientists, and then there are these guys. Reinhold Hecht and Christoph Thalacker not only have a combined 70 patent families to their credit but also are constantly seeking out contrary opinions and rejection in a way that's anathema to most. Only the best solutions win—and to them, that's the fun.

Read more about these beautiful minds: https://goben.co/3U3zA1B

What to Do About Hypersensitivity: Solutions for Prevention and Repair
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A renowned and progressive educator, researcher, author, dental school dean, and nonprofit leader, Dominick P. DePaola had an impressive peripatetic career of over 40 years. DePaola was always seeking to advance dental medical science in ways that would tangibly improve people's lives, and we are proud to induct him and his legacy into our Dental Innovators Hall of Fame. 📚🌟

Read more about this Hall of Fame inductee: https://goben.co/3UjLfcu

🧠You know those commercials for Transitions eyeglass lenses, the ones that turn into sunglasses when you walk outside? Or Varilux, which are like bifocals, minus the lines? Gilles Richard might still be working on things like that today had he not pivoted to dentistry. “I discovered that dental composites are similar to plastic eyewear,” he says.

Read more about this beautiful mind: https://goben.co/3VMlqUO

Come along on our quest to raise awareness around Mental Health and to reduce the stigma in talking about it! We want YOU to tell us what you or your business is doing to support mental health and wellness! ☀️

Next up, we’re showing off some big smiles for Benco Dental! 😁🦷

Here’s some of what Benco does to support mental health and wellness:

“Offer four free counseling sessions through our EAP for all associates & household members.
Offer monthly wellness opportunities that address all facets of wellness - including mental health.
Medical benefits keep mental health copays affordable for enrollees.
Offer the associate emergency fund - PTO & financial assistance.
Offer FMLA & personal leave (covered by short term disability) for mental health related treatment.”

Great work Benco! 👏🏼👏🏼

If you or your business would like to be featured next contact our page or a member of Team Up for Transparency today! Also don’t forget to come out on May 4th for the John Malvizzi Foundation *FREE* Mental Wellness Fair!

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Every year, there’s a spirited discussion (or argument, depending on whom you talk to) among the Incisal Edge team over potential Hall of Fame candidates. This year, one name prompted no dissent: Dr. Dan Fischer. The internationally recognized doctor built his highly successful company, Ultradent, founded in 1978, from a basement operation to a global powerhouse selling more than 550 products worldwide. 🌎📈

Read more about this Hall of Fame inductee: https://goben.co/4aTjVsC

The search for our 2025 Dental Assistant of the Year has begun! Know someone who deserves the title? Nominate them today: https://goben.co/3xMK1ik

🧠From understanding global user preferences to bridging practicality and innovation, Thorsten Bock and Rudolf Jussel are redefining excellence in dental technology. Although they already fill leadership positions at Ivoclar, their customer-centric and comprehensive approach to problem-solving amplifies their influence.

Read more about these beautiful minds: https://goben.co/3PINYuM

In what Dr. Shi, president and CEO of the Forsyth Institute, called a "no-brainer," his prominent oral health research institution joined forces with the nation’s largest professional dental organization. Now called the ADA Forsyth Institute, the merger is said to have the potential to transform dental research and oral health overall.

Read more about this exciting union: https://goben.co/4b29Ppe

May is the start of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The legislation to annually designate May as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month referenced two key dates: May 7 and May 10. May 7, 1843, marks the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States. And May 10, 1869, or Golden Spike Day, recognizes the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S., which had significant contributions from Chinese workers.

At Benco we want to celebrate our associates, dentists & dental professionals, and everyone within the Asian American & Pacific Islander communities.

We are now accepting nominations for the 2025 Lucy Hobbs Awards! Navigate to the Incisal Edge Magazine Awards Portal through the link in our bio to submit your entries! 🏆✨

🧠How do electronics and software influence a mechanical process that’s getting faster all the time but also somewhat limited by physics? And how can IoT and AI make operating and maintaining these devices easier and more reliable?

“Technology has replaced electromechanical timers and sensors with electronics and next-generation sensors,” explains SciCan’s Derek Pereira, who leads a team of 50 engineering and design professionals encompassing mechanics, electronics, IoT, software, web/cloud, product testing and more.

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Each year, the Gordon J. Christensen Clinicians Report receives and purchases tens of thousands of products to give promising new medical products the dental version of an IRS audit. The work completed by CR's' team, while astonishing in itself, is also widely unmatched.

Get a peek of these Scientific Sentinels in action: https://goben.co/3UahgUy