The prices for dental equipment and supplies have gone up, but dentists are doing as many dental restorations as ever. When deciding how to spend your supply budget, it’s more important than ever to make sure your money is going toward a product that will work as hard as you do. Enter the Halo™ sectional matrix system by Ultradent.
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Ultradent products are designed for dentists by dentists, which means they’re not only practical but also reliable and absolutely stunning. The Halo sectional matrix system is a high-quality, long-lasting matrix system that will help you create beautiful, anatomically-contoured composite restorations in less time. It’s no wonder that Ultradent is such an award-winning company.
Gentle on soft tissues, yet strong enough to hold the Halo matrix band in place, Halo rings are anatomically contoured to match the natural curvature of a tooth. The Halo ring’s contours are designed to help reduce flash, ensure a natural shape, and maintain the integrity and shape of the matrix band. Less flash and natural contours mean less time is needed to finish and polish the final composite restoration.1
Ultradent’s Halo sectional matrix rings are stackable, allowing you to use them with MODs and other Class II restorations. They also provide sufficient separation for adjacent restorations if needed. Because of their exceptional durability, Halo rings will retain their strength and longevity, are fully autoclavable, and can be used over 1,000 times!1
Case photos courtesy of Ultradent and Dr. Brett Richins.
The ultra-thin 0.038 mm stainless steel bands of the Halo system are anatomically contoured to the natural shape of the tooth. In particular, the curve at the marginal ridge creates an ideal occlusal embrasure. This helps to ensure that your restoration is anatomically accurate and reduces the time you must spend shaping and finishing the composite restoration.1
Available in two varieties—Original and Firm—Halo matrix bands give you the flexibility that you need for the many dental restorations you perform. To help you choose the right band, Original bands allow for more adaptability and better burnishing, while the Firm bands resist deformation and are ideal for those tight interproximal spaces we all love to work with.
To make things even better, the Halo matrix bands are easy to place and remove. Tabs and tweezer holes allow for easy placement, manipulation, and removal using the Halo tweezers. To further increase visibility, Ultradent has made the tabs bendable.
As if that weren’t enough, utility and workflow were obviously kept front and center for this product. Firm Halo matrix bands are color coded according to size to allow you to select the matrix band you need from the Halo carousel dispenser quickly and easily. Dentists rejoice!
The active wedging provided by Halo wedges delivers enhanced separation and expands to adapt the matrix band at the gingival margin. If you need to use multiple wedges, their adaptable, stackable design and collapsible center allows them to further conform to the prep.
Halo wedges are made with convenience in mind. They’re organized according to size, allowing you to select the wedge you need from the sleek Halo carousel dispenser quickly and easily. Plus, they are easy to place and remove with specially designed holes made for fast and simple placement, manipulation, and removal using the nifty Halo tweezers.
The Halo sectional matrix system can help dentists create stunning, anatomically-contoured composite restorations. Dental sectional matrix systems are best used for procedures involving the restoration of proximal cavities. These systems are particularly useful for the following types of procedures:
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Case photos courtesy of Ultradent and Dr. James Wright.
It’s no secret that most restorative work in a dental practice involves posterior restorations. Let Ultradent's Halo sectional matrix system and Transcend™ composite streamline your workflow! The Transcend composite Universal Body shade provides excellent opacity to mask underlying tooth color, allowing you to complete most restorations with a single shade of composite—no blocker needed!
Ultradent's Halo sectional matrix system offers a comprehensive solution to streamline and enhance your dental restorations. Paired with Transcend composite and Ultradent's range of other dental restoration products, you have access to an exceptional complete dental restoration package that meets your clinical needs and ensures stunning, long-lasting results.
By choosing Ultradent, you invest in the future of your practice and patient satisfaction. Experience the next era of restorations with Ultradent—contact your local territory account manager to learn more and elevate your practice with our top-quality products!
Iatrogenic damage refers to any adverse condition in a patient resulting from treatment by a physician.2 Studies have shown that in 70% or more of Class II restorations, the clinician nicks the adjacent tooth with the bur during prep – a prime example of iatrogenic damage.3 When the bur nicks the adjacent tooth, it roughens the tooth surface and creates an area for bacteria to collect more easily and form caries. In order to avoid nicking the adjacent tooth, clinicians tend to spend more time to slowly and carefully prep the tooth. To avoid the extra time and risk of iatrogenic damage, it is recommend to use an interproximal guard to protect the adjacent tooth.3 This allows you to prep faster without worry, and simultaneously do right by your patients.
This can be avoided with the use of the wedgeguard.
When using resin-based restorative products, isolation is critical for success. If the restorative field is contaminated with moisture, the physical properties and ultimate success of the restoration may be compromised. The ability to achieve and maintain isolation is affected by a number of factors including: oral hygiene of the patient, location of the restoration, irritation of the tissue around the restorative field, and the seal provided by the matrix system.4
While you cannot control the fact that the patient does not floss, or that isolation is more difficult in the posterior where 74% of direct restorations are performed; you can control to a degree how much you irritate the surrounding tissue during the procedure, and how well you seal the restorative field off from surrounding moisture.4,5
That can be controlled with the use of contoured matrix and wedge.
Achieving proper contact and contour means that the tooth being treated tightly contacts the adjacent tooth at the middle third, and has a natural, convex contour. An open, or improperly placed/shaped interproximal contact can result in a fracture, as well as food impaction in the interproximal space which can result in periodontal inflammation, bone loss and recurrent caries.6
Can be avoided with the use of a matrix band and a retaining ring.
The size and shape of the teeth being restored, the kind of restoration being used, and the clinical condition are just a few of the variables that will determine which Palodent® Matrix components will work best. Palodent® Plus matrix bands are available in a variety of sizes ranging from 3.5mm up to 7.5mm.
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