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Custom Channels, a company that creates custom on-line and on-premise radio stations for nationally-known brands, has introduced Smile Radio music service customized for dental practices.

The unique music service is comprised of multiple channels of professionally programmed, continuously updated music to facilitate the sound and atmosphere of dental offices. Smile Radio channels are broadcast directly to dental practices via the Internet and received on a specially designed streaming receiver.

The service has been founded by 30-year radio vets and consultants (SBR Creative Media) Dave Rahn and John Bradley.

The publication quoted Custom Channels’ co-president Dave Rahn as saying, “A number of my dentist friends really had a hard time finding a good music solution for their office.  Many used FM or satellite radio, or their own iPods or CDs – but found each had serious drawbacks. We created Smile Radio to address their concerns about lack of variety, tiring repetition, inappropriate songs, commercials and interruptions.”

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Astra Tech entered into a strategic partnership with Dental Wings which will start in early 2010.

Astra Tech is a market leader in the field of implant dentistry, and Dental Wings, is the Canadian-based provider of CAD/CAM solutions with specialized development of 3D scanners.

As a result, Dental Wings users worldwide will have the ability to remotely transfer scans to Astra Tech’s design and manufacturing centers for the production of Atlantis™ patient-specific abutments for all major implant systems.

With this, implant cases will be scanned in the dental laboratory using a Dental Wings 3D scanner. Both Astra Tech and Dental Wings jointly developed interface that lets the electronic transfer of scans from the Dental Wings user directly to Astra Tech’s design and manufacturing centers for precise and efficient production of Atlantis abutments. By eliminating the need for shipping case models, the laboratory is able to benefit from reduced turnaround times and cost.

The publication quoted Peter Selley, President and CEO, Astra Tech Group as saying: “Incorporating Atlantis can greatly help to increase the efficiency and profitability of a dental laboratory. This new partnership with Dental Wings is an important step in our continued efforts to leverage technology to further enhance our customers’ experience with Atlantis abutments while reducing costs and turnaround times.”

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YRC Inc., a subsidiary of YRC Worldwide Inc., and Christina’s Smile Dental Care Clinic will provide free dental care to needy children on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 1-2, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the YRC Worldwide Headquarters.

Christina’s Smile is a traveling dental clinic that provides free dental care to underprivileged children. Various charitable groups and organizations select the children prior to the Clinic.

Dr. Richard R. Garza, who treated many underprivileged children in his Austin, Texas, dental practice for 22 years, conceived Christina’s Smile Children’s Dental Clinic in 1989.

Dr. Garza came up with the idea of building a mobile clinic in a 48 foot vehicle that would impact as many children and families as possible. YRC Worldwide has partnered with Christina’s Smile to bring free dental care to children across the country.

According to Dr. Garza, children living in poverty throughout the U.S. lack access to dental services, and high health care costs literally deprive poor families of receiving quality dentistry except through “free clinics” or other such facilities.

In 2009, 21 Clinics will be conducted to treat over 2,400 children and provide over $1.5 million worth of dentistry to children who might not otherwise receive the care they so desperately need.

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