Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of two new products to its Optra® Accessories product line: OptraGate Jr.® and OptraPol®. OptraGate Jr. is a smaller version of the 2005 Gold Medical Design Excellence Award-winning OptraGate® lip and cheek retractor that is specifically designed for use when treating children and younger patients. Like the original OptraGate latex-free lip and cheek retractor sizes, OptraGate Jr. offers such clinical functionality and patient comfort features as flexibility and access to a larger working area. Similarly, OptraPol composite polishers enhance the functionality of the product line by enabling clinicians to achieve a high-gloss surface finish of composite restorations in only one working step, without the need for exchanging instruments or using polishing pastes.
Optra Accessories were developed in response to market demands for products that enhance the clinician’s ability to easily and predictably place today’s highly sought-after direct composite restorations. Offerings include a specially designed line of contact point instruments, selectively thinned matrix bands, composite sculpting and modeling instruments, and lip and cheek retractors. With the introduction of OptraGate Jr. and OptraPol, Ivoclar Vivadent continues to demonstrate its commitment to delivering to the marketplace those products that contribute to the realization of productivity, performance and esthetics in today’s busy dental practices.
OptraPol, in particular, is a new one-step high-gloss polishing system for composite resins that can be autoclaved for sterilization and still enable multiple uses (up to 20), thereby greatly reducing costs per application. By providing a unique combination of highly efficient applications and perfect polishing results, OptraPol enables clinicians to impart a perfect luster to their composite restorations and help prevent excessive plaque accumulation. OptraPol is available in point, small point, cup, and disc shapes.