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William P. Dragan – current CEO of Centrix during a visit to Poland

Centrix President Discusses How the Company Became a Prevention Leader!

Prominent Polish dental magazine, Twój Przegląd Stomatologiczny, interviewed William to get the inside scoop on the interesting history of Centrix and our efforts to make prevention easier.
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Centrix Receives Recognition from the University of Maryland School of Dentistry

Centrix has been honored by the University of Maryland School of Dentistry for its significant support in advancing the School's mission.
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Teeth in the colors of a rainbow to celebrate Pride month

Celebrating Pride Month: How Dentistry Embraced the LGBTQIA Community

Every year, during Pride Month in June, the LGBTQIA community celebrates the work that has been done over decades to achieve justice and equal opportunities.
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How Sleep Affects Your Patients’ Oral Health

Poor sleep stresses the body causing inflammation and immune system disruption. These factors lead to an increased risk of gum disease.
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Welcome Back from Centrix!

We'd like to send out a HUGE WELCOME BACK to all states and dental offices that are opening slowly but surely! We wish you the best of luck in adjusting to the new ways you will be handling your business. As always, Centrix is here to help and we hope to be speaking to many [...]
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Centrix: Staying Positive, Ready to Help.

The stress and pressures from COVID-19DN affects us all, own cities and our neighborhoods. At Centrix, we have made adjustments and preparations to best support our community of dental professionals, manufacturers, distributors, families and friends. We are working with our production facilities and our vendors to ensure that our products are in inventories and available [...]
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Preparing Your Dental Practice for Reopening

Like so many offices, you've most likely had to close your doors to keep your office staff and patients safe. However, soon, many of you will be opening your offices for the first time in months. It's important to think about what you might do differently this time, and how you can be successful in [...]
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4 Reasons Why Hygienists Love Centrix FluoroDose Fluoride Varnish

Our company continues to introduce original and inventive dental products certain to become the new standard in our industry. Such is the case with award-winning Centrix FluoroDose®, the unit-dose fluoride varnish available in 5 delicious flavors that is easy to use and easy on your patients. In a recent interview with Dental Product Shopper, dental [...]
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Dr. Howard S. Glazer Says NoCord VPS Is A “Yes” for Any Practice

Our revolutionary, one-step impressioning system, Centrix NoCord™ VPS, received rave reviews in the November 2016 issue of AGD Impact. Reviewer Dr. Howard S. Glazer, DDS, FAGD calls NoCord a "yes" product for any practice because this easy-to-use system accurately captures all the tooth margin details without the need for retraction cords or pastes. Dr. Glazer [...]
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Veteran Practitioner, Dr. Polhemus, Shares Thoughts on NoCord VPS Impressioning System

Centrix team members, John Eaton and Nick Campbell, recently visited one of our NoCord VPS fan's, Dr. David Polhemus AACD Cosmetic Dentist of Raleigh, North Carolina, to congratulate him on his practice's 30th anniversary. Dr. David Polhemus is featured in the April 2018 issue of Dental Product Shopper Magazine where he describes how two different [...]
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Dr. Marty Zase Loves Access Edge!

Dr. Marty Zase, from Colchester, CT, sings his praises for Access Edge, our Kaolin Clay Gingival Retraction Paste: "I use this product every single day in my practice, and honestly I wouldn't want to practice without it!" Access Edge is a high-viscosity, kaolin clay-based gingival retraction paste. It contains kaolin clay, to gently separate the [...]
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LIVE CE WEBINAR – The Role of the Dental Assistant: Techniques & Technologies That Help Deliver “World Class” Dentistry!

Webinar Details: The Role of the Dental Assistant - Techniques and Technologies that Help Deliver "World Class" Dentistry Presenter: Ms. Shannon Pace Brinker CE Credits: 1 CEU Webinar Begins: 10/25/18 7:00 PM ET, 4:00 PM PT The ideal chairside dental assistant must be current and knowledgeable in materials science and be proficient in the various [...]
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LIVE CE WEBINAR – Ensuring Structural Integrity During Restorative Treatment – This is the Core Issue!

Webinar Details: Ensuring Structural Integrity During Restorative Treatment - This is the Core Issue! Presenter: Dr. Marian Fanica CE Credits: 1 CEU Webinar Begins: 11/20/18 7:00 PM ET, 4:00 PM PT As part of restoring broken down teeth, it is important to place a post-and-core buildup on the remaining tooth structure prior to placing the [...]
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Early Gifts that Make Dentistry Easier for Your Staff

Samantha Negraval, of Dental Product Shopper, recently posted a blog featuring two of our favorite products: FluoroDose® fluoride varnish, and NoCord™ VPS Impressioning System. Samantha writes, "With the holidays quickly approaching, many dentists will begin to think of what they might purchase for their staff as a way of saying "thank you." Before you consider out-of-office gifts, [...]
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Unit-Dose & Delivery System Specialists

Centrix, Inc. provides short-run, highly flexible, differentiated, private label drug and medical packaging. We design and manufacture applicators, syringes, and micro/unit dose packaging; and specialize in proprietary filling of challenging materials including single and dual component chemistries. Centrix specializes in micro-dose packaging of bulk materials in all viscosities. We have three core technologies that offer [...]
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New Flavors of Economical FluoroDose® Available

Centrix' popular white cavity varnish is now available in great-tasting Melon and Cherry flavors, in addition to original Mint and Bubble Gum. Each unit contains one single dose (0.3ml) of FluoroDose plus one brush, allowing you to mix white varnish prior to application, guaranteeing a consistent level of fluoride in every application. Dries in seconds [...]
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Unit-Dose Moisture-Activated Temporary Filling & Sealing Material

Still squeezing those messy tubes? Or are you chiseling material out of the jar? With Tempit®, our unit-dose, moisture-activated temporary filling and sealing material, simply inject into a moist prep, tamp down, and then dismiss patient. Tempit sets in 5 minutes or less. Pre-filled, it eliminates setup time. No more tubes or jars. Unique delivery [...]
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No-Drip Dentin Desensitizer Promotes Patient Comfort

Glu/Sense has direct delivery, is safer to use on patients and saves you time and money. Glu/Sense is the first no-drip HEMA/Glutaraldehyde dentin desensitizer gel that goes where you want it to go and won't spill or drip onto sensitive tissue. Packaged in a syringe with foam-tipped needle for faster, easier direct placement. For use [...]
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GingiTrac™ Retraction System Now Unit Dose

No big bulky automix gun. And still no cleanup or packing cord. Hate the big automix gun? Centrix introduces GingiTrac™ MiniMix®. Our newly re-formulated 1:1 astringent, Vinyl Polysiloxane formula is now in our patented, single-dose MiniMix. More patient-friendly, the MiniMix is easier to express than the automix gun with less waste. Plus, the smaller size [...]
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3 Products that Makes Root Canals Easier!

Three-In-One Disposable EndoKit Simplifies Root Canal Therapy Centrix' EndoKit assembles three disposable products that make root canal therapy quicker and easier when calcium hydroxide is indicated. Each single-use foil pouch contains a MicroAspirato® tip, a Calciject™ calcium hydroxide paste tip and a moisture-activated Tempit® sealer. With this kit there is no mixing and no mess [...]
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Tempit® Ultra: No Clove Smell, No Mixing and Rock Solid

Tempit Ultra-F is an Intermediate Restorative Material with high compressive strength is pre-filled, light-activated and has direct delivery into the mouth. And no clove smell! Light-activated Tempit Ultra-F sets hard in 40 seconds so there is no waiting. Our unique direct delivery system provides faster, easier placement AND eliminates voids. It is pre-filled so there [...]
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Diamonds are a Dentist’s Best Friend!

This month Centrix is announcing a new product that will help you make dentistry easier, and we're doing it with diamonds! GripStrip™ Proximal Finishing and Polishing Strips have a diamond-coated design to provide precision finishing and polishing for restorations in proximal areas. Because our strips contain two working areas of different grit sizes - 40µm [...]
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Improved Clay Retraction with an Even Better Price!

We're talking about Access® Edge from Centrix, of course. With our easy-to-use, clay-based gingival retraction paste from Centrix you can save steps, save time and more importantly...save money! Access Edge displaces and retracts tissue, while minimizing trauma. The dual astringent and hemostatic action of the aluminum chloride plus kaolin clay controls bleeding and absorbs fluids [...]
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Tempit® Ultra: No Mixing, No Mess, No Cross-Contamination

Light-activated Tempit Ultra-F is an Intermediate Restorative Material that sets hard in 40 seconds so there is no waiting. Our unique direct delivery system provides faster, easier placement AND eliminates voids. It is pre-filled so there will be no mixing, no mess, and no inaccurate mixtures. Tempit Ultra-F is designed for temporary fillings lasting up [...]
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Centrix has the only dual cure sold by dose: Encore® D/C MiniMix®

The Encore D/C MiniMix system from Centrix is a dual-cure, unit-dose core build-up material in a miniature automix cartridge. The material is nonslumping, cuts like dentin, and can be light-activated to accelerate set time. The exclusive Encore D/C needle tip enables direct delivery to the bottom of the post hole, and the automix and dual-cure [...]
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Benda Brush, the World Leader in Bendable Brushes Since 1989

With Centrix Benda® Brush, disposable brush applicators - precision application of materials in hard-to-reach, confined areas has never been easier. Remember, Benda Brush applicators are the original bendable bristle brush applicators...since 1989! Centrix also offers a full line of popular Benda® applicators in standard bristle brush and micro fiber-tipped styles for easier and more precise placement of materials. And, [...]
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Better Results With or Without Cord

Choose the retraction paste that works for you. GingiTrac is a silicone based material, automixed in a single-use disposable syringe tip. Kind and gentle to gingival tissue, GingiTrac slips out of the retracted sulcus in one piece, and is ideal for use with or without cord. Controls bleeding and oozing through the astringent action of aluminum sulfate. Access [...]
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Disposable Tubes & Plugs – Invented by Centrix!

C-R Syringes, tubes and plugs were invented by Centrix over 40 years ago, and Centrix continues to be the world leader in providing delivery systems for all dental materials. Centrix disposable tubes and plugs eliminate repetitive pad-to-mouth motion by putting the entire mixture at your fingertips. You can quickly and more cost-effectively dispense any type of [...]
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7 things that Centrix loved about CDA San Francisco

Centrix was once again lucky enough to make the long trip out west to CDA in San Francisco ... one of our favorite cities! CDA has plenty to offer to keep us engaged and inspired. Here we compiled a list of our top 7 things that we love about CDA and San Francisco. Let's see [...]
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Access Crown® Temporary Crowns Made Fast and Easy!

Centrix is known for making dentistry easier. "Easier" can be determined by many factors: faster process, no mixing, less chair time, easy on your patient, you name it. Access Crown bis-acryl composite just happens to cover all of those bases! Fast Process, Less Chair Time: Access Crown can be removed from your patient's mouth in only 60 seconds. It has [...]
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Are You Still Packing Cord?

Access®FLO gives better retraction results with our without packing cord. AccessFLO is a flowable kaolin clay retraction paste best known for it's smooth delivery, hence the name FLO. However, the dual astringent / hemostatic action of 15% aluminum chloride and kaolin clay controls bleeding and seepage of fluids like no other. AccessFLO gives gentle, non-traumatic gingival retraction [...]
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GingiTrac Retraction Material makes an “impression” in Florida!

Centrix is known for having great customers. They are loyal product users and are not shy about sharing their opinions. We love feedback! Recently, one of our customers, Dr. Matthew Giunta, from Tampa, Florida, wrote a great piece on our favorite retraction material: GingiTrac. Read the article below in Dr. Giunta's own words. We hope [...]
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THE DENTAL ADVISOR gives high ratings to Centrix Products

Centrix recently asked THE DENTAL ADVISOR to review two of our top products, Access® Flo and Access® Crown.
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Get a Grip on your Strip…

Centrix GripStrip™ diamond-coated finishing and polishing strips are like no other strip on the market. Our unique combination of features makes GripStrip stand out among the competition. Every Centrix GripStrip™ Features Two Grit Sizes, Innovative Grip Tabs and is Autoclavable! Because our strips contain two working areas of different grit sizes - a coarser grit [...]
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Disposable Tubes & Plugs Eliminate Pad-to-Mouth Motion

The Centrix disposable tubes and plugs eliminate repetitive pad-to-mouth motion by putting the entire mixture at your fingertips. You can quickly and more cost-effectively dispense any type of composite or cement while reducing voids and porosities in any restoration. Centrix tubes and plugs are disposable, therefore you will completely eliminate cleanup and cross contamination. No matter [...]
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Access Crown and Access Crown Ultra. Faster. Easier. Smarter

The Centrix Access Crown® line delivers the most shades and the fastest setting time on the market. Access Crown sets to an elastic memory state in only 60 seconds and it's easy to remove without distortion. No temporary bis-acryl temporary resin material is faster or easier to use! Access Crown sets to an elastic-like state, [...]
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GingiTrac Cordless Gingival Retraction Material

Gingitrac's 1:1 Vinyl Polysiloxane formula is easier to express from an automix gun, has a longer shelf-life AND a faster set time! Unlike traumatic cord techniques or messy paste alternatives, our patented GingiTrac material delivers the perfect combination of built-in astringency, gentle retraction and fast setting times to assure the most accurate impressions. Simply syringe [...]
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24-gauge NeedleTube Best Product in 2014

Great news! Centrix is pleased to announce that our AccuDose 24-gauge NeedleTube, was featured in the CR Foundation Buying Guide in their December 2014 issue under Endodontics / Applicators. It was rated among the Best Products Evaluated in 2014. It was also featured in CR's April 2014 issue with a favorable evaluation - 71% of [...]
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The TOP Fluoride Varnish in 2015, Centrix FluoroDose®, now available for sale in Europe

April, 2015 - FluoroDose recently received CE 0482 mark approval for sale. FluoroDose features a 5% sodium fluoride cavity varnish, goes on smooth, not sticky, so there is no "wooly" feeling. Exclusive LolliPack® packaging makes FluoroDose the easiest fluoride varnish to apply while providing the maximum fluoride uptake. It dries when in contact with saliva [...]
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LolliCaine Topical Anesthetic – a Dental Assistants’ Best Friend!

LolliCaine topical anesthetic from Centrix is another innovative product that is helping to make dentistry easier...especially for dental assistants! LolliCaine features a 20% benzocaine gel in a single-use LolliPack® package. Each package contains one dose of LolliCaine gel plus one clean swab applicator. 1. Simply peel back the cover and dip in the swab applicator 2. [...]

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