Our Top 10 Blog Articles of 2021 (and a few you may have missed)

It's hard to believe 2021 has come and gone. Although the year could best be described as messy, there are a lot of lessons we are grateful for. We want to take this opportunity to share with you our most popular blog articles from 2021 and a few you may have missed. Enjoy!

What’s New in 3Shape Dental System 2021

3Shape is constantly evolving with useful and practical upgrades and additions to their innovative scanner software. As a long-time reseller, Whip Mix looks forward to constant creative improvement from them and, as a 3Shape scanner user, we know you do too.

Here some of what’s new in 3Shape Dental System 2021.

The Awesome Women of Whip Mix's Sales Team

Whip Mix has a lot to be proud of. It’s going strong after 100 years of family leadership, it develops and sells some of the industry’s most iconic and dependable products, and it’s proud to feature the finest customer and technical support available. These things can only happen with the finest people. Help us celebrate the Awesome Women of Whip Mix, without whom, none of it would have been possible.

Meet the women of Whip Mix’s Sales Team!

Roland DGSHAPE USA Releases New C-Clamp Adapter

When Roland DGSHAPE USA launched the DWX-52D, replacing the DWX-51D in January of 2018, they did away with the C-Clamp and went with a new Snap-In Clamp System for disc changing which includes six material adapters. The idea was that the new style would offer a fast and secure set-up eliminating mounting errors and minimizing damage during disc insertion. The Snap-In Clamp System, reinserted material adapters keep discs indexed to their original position for production that requires secondary milling or two-stage processing.

The Awesome Women of Whip Mix's MSCT Team

Whip Mix has a lot to be proud of. It’s going strong after 100 years of family leadership, it develops and sells some of the industry’s most iconic and dependable products, and it’s proud to feature the finest customer and technical support available. These things can only happen with the finest people. Help us celebrate the Wonderful Women of Whip Mix, without whom, none of it would have been possible.

Meet the women of Whip Mix’s MSCT Team!
(Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Tech Support)

Functional Occlusion in the Digital Age, An Encore Webinar

While digital technology has brought many amazing advances in accuracy and control into the production of dental prosthetics, it has also brought with it an inappropriate dependence on the technology. Many technicians are losing sight of proper occlusion, function, and the very important role articulators play in defining and refining proper occlusal function. This is of particular importance when producing larger cases in general, particularly those that include the anterior teeth. Enjoy BOTH parts of this very informative webinar series.

Let’s Get Digital 🎶🎶

I have had this task of writing a blog by the end of 2020 and – despite usually being fairly creative – I had major writer’s block trying to write about something that matters. Here we are, at the beginning of 2021 and I woke up out of a dead sleep singing Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical” in my head. Then suddenly the lyrics shifted from “Let’s get physical… physical – I wanna get physical… let’s get into physical…” into “Let’s get digital… digital – I wanna get digital… let’s get into digital!”

3D Printed Models vs Gypsum Models

The decades old method of capturing a patient’s tooth morphology and related oral structures has involved taking a physical impression of some form and pouring that impression with some form of gypsum or resin product. Depending on the contraction rate of the impression material, one can determine what expansion rate the gypsum should roughly be to compensate for the shrinkage of the impression material. It is sort of a tug of war with the ultimate goal of producing a dental model as close to the dental structure in size and shape as possible.

The Awesome Women of Whip Mix's Product Development Team

3D Printing Hacks

When you think about the future, what comes to mind? If you were a youth in the early 60s, perhaps you think of the Jetson’s flying cars, jetpacks, and robot servants; if you were a child in the late 70s, perhaps you remember Star Wars’ light sabers, X-wing fighters, and robot sidekicks that will help you defeat The Empire; or if you were a kid in the early 90s, perhaps you recall The Next Generation’s warp drive, transporter technology, and replicators. Though we may not yet be in the future predicted by these writers, 3D printers are a step in the right direction.

Software Update Information for SUM3d and MillBox CAM Users

All software requires periodic updates because no software can be produced “finished”. One cannot expect it to last forever. Besides, you want your software to enhance your growing business. You want it to prevent production interruptions which can affect your bottom line.

CIMsystems article below explains some of its new updates and how they can benefit you and make your job easier and better. As an example of updates that can do that, queued import of restorations, intelligent support pins, 90-degree milling, are some improvements make nesting more productive and help to eliminate wasted time from your milling operations.

Read the article and learn why and how these updates benefit your business.

The Awesome Women of Whip Mix

Whip Mix has a lot to be proud of. It’s going strong with over 100 years of family leadership, it develops and sells some of the industry’s most iconic and dependable products, and it’s proud to feature the finest customer and technical support available. These things can only happen with the finest people. Help us celebrate the Awesome Women of Whip Mix, without whom, none of this would have been possible.

Meet the women of Whip Mix!

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