Since the Beginning: Captek

Since the Beginning: Captek



For the last 10 years, support from companies like Captek has been crucial to Dentaltown’s success. In celebrating our 10th anniversary, we also celebrate these companies that have consistently supported us since the beginning. Captek Director of Clinical Communication Dr. Dean Mersky, and President Nick Azzara took some time out to write about the impact of Dentaltown on Captek and dentistry as a whole.

Since 1999, Dentaltown has been a driving force in helping thousands of dental professionals continually improve; and we at Captek count ourselves in that company. The open and honest dialog we encouraged through Dentaltown.com and Dentaltown Magazine continues to be extremely valuable to us as a manufacturer and service provider. Over the years, Townies have provided invaluable feedback and guidance contributing to the continual development of Captek. In 2005, we were invited to a Townie Round Table Product Review prior to the annual Townie Meeting in Las Vegas. As expected, the thoughtful insights and clinical guidance that arose sparked some of our most dynamic technological advancements. These very same advancements have helped technicians and dentists achieve the highest level of aesthetics, strength and health benefits with Captek, while making it easier, more predictable and expanding indications to more clinical situations. After all of these years, we firmly believe Captek continues to be one of the most advanced restorative materials in the world.

We listened intently to Townie doctors who wanted stronger materials that addressed more clinical challenges. In response, the unique, non-oxidizing porcelain bonder was updated to provide even more predictability for the lab and even greater porcelain protection for the doctor. The new Universal Coupler for Porcelain (UCP) added tremendous “toughness” to the original formula enhancing bond strength to porcelains as well as composites. During this time, additional material updates and simpler lab methods were implemented to provide even greater porcelain protection in high stress clinical cases including functional cusps and marginal ridges.

Townies also told us they needed Captek for broader clinical solutions including bruxers, implants, cantilevers and long-span bridges. This request helped propel our next level of system enhancements released in 2007. Using advancements in Nano manufacturing, we now have a line of Captek materials designed for specific purposes including these high stress areas identified by Townie dentists. The first new Captek Nano material increased strength factors more than 30 percent, yet still maintained the favorable aesthetic and health properties unique to the original formula. The Captek Nano Bridge and Implant material raised the bar on our already high clinical standards and even earned the 2008 WOW Technology Award from the Journal of Dental Technology. Today, there is a selection of Captek Nano materials. All are thinner, have better cost control, greater strength factors and even better esthetic potential.

Ultra thin versions of Captek are now in final beta testing. This material will compete for the thinnest crown cores available, thus answering the high aesthetic demands of maxillary and mandibular centrals and laterals, and mandibular cuspids. Even Captek’s gold color has been further refined so as to achieve maximum aesthetics in the most limited space.

We couldn’t be more proud and appreciative for Townies having honored us with six consecutive Townie Choice Awards for best PFM. Thanks to you and your suggestions, our team remains continually inspired to accelerate research and innovations and help our labs reach Advanced Certification levels. We have always and will always continue to listen and learn from Townies.

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