ORTHO INDUSTRY NEWS Dental School Outfitted With Sirona Simulator Units California Passes Dental Law Regarding Self-Applied Orthodontic Treatments On October 13, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1519 into law, granting the California Dental Board continued authority to oversee and regulate dental services in the state. The bill passed the California legislature with zero no votes. As Governor Newsom noted in his signing statement, "The bill includes significant policy changes related to the regulation of self-applied orthodontic treatments administered via telehealth and other technological platforms." Some of these changes include: • Requiring an electronic notice for patients receiving dental services through telehealth including a provision that the California Dental Board is the entity that regulates dentists and dental assistants and provides the telephone number and internet website of the California Dental Board. • Defining "unprofessional conduct" to include a treating dentist's fail-ure, prior to the initial use of orthodontic appliances, to review the patient's most recent radio-graphs (e.g. x-rays) or equivalent bone imaging. • Requiring individuals and entities providing dental services through telehealth to make available the name, telephone number, practice address, and California state license number of any dentist who will be involved in providing services to a patient prior to the rendering of services and when requested by a patient. • Prohibiting dental service providers from requiring patients to sign an agreement that limits the patient's ability to file a complaint with the California Dental Board. • Requiring that all laws and regula-tions governing professional responsibility, unprofessional conduct, and standards of practice that apply to a health care provider under the health care provider's license shall also apply to that health care provider while provid-ing telehealth services. Dentsply Sirona has fitted over 100 simulator units at the Univer-sity of Missouri -Kansas City (UMKC) School of Dentistry as part of a $4 million project, making the UMKC Dental Training Lab one of the country’s largest and most advanced education facilities. The simulation and technology lab is intended for pre-clinical education, and allows dental students to prac-tice on “close to real life” models. Two UMKC training laboratories were equipped with 109 Intego student simulator units and two instructor units for its School of Dentistry students. The upgraded training labs now allow students to learn and practice in a realistic clinical setting from the very start as all dental procedures can be simulated under ergonomic condi-tions with correct instrumentation technique. The configuration of the workstations allows flexibility, such as easy switching from right-handed treatments to left-handed. Given the modular concept, the units are also suitable for both UMKC dental and dental hygiene curricula and include the option to add further functions and techno-logical updates in digital dentistry in the future. FDA Approves KeySplint Soft 3D Print Resin for dental labs and clinicians: a 3D-printed night guard and splint that is flexible and comfortable for the patient, yet tough and durable, with-out brittleness. It is reportedly abra-sion, fracture, and stain resistant. KeySplint Soft is made in the United States, has 3 years of guaranteed shelf life, and can be used as a highly-efficient and profitable way to make splints and night guards. “We worked for years to create a unique, safe, and effective night guard solution for 3D printing,” says Ira Rosenau, president of Keystone’s dental group. “With the added production efficiency of 3D printing, KeySplint Soft offers a top quality and unique splint solution that creates a significant value for the labora-tory and a terrific protective device for the patient.” Keystone Industries has obtained clearance by the U.S. FDA to sell KeySplint Soft, its 3D printing night guard and splint resin in the United States, joining Canada and the Euro-pean Union as territories where KeySplint Soft can be purchased. According to the company, Keystone’s patent-pending formula-tion for the KeySplint Soft printing material provides a unique solution 6 Winter 2020 JAOS
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