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A successful two-day PIPS® root canal therapy training course took place in mid October in the dental offices of expert laser dentist Dr. Peter Lundgren’s (Malmö, Sweden). Participants from all over Scandinavia were very excited about the advantages this revolutionary method, available only with Fotona dental lasers, offers.

The15th Biennial Congress of the European Society of Endodontology (ESE Rome), which took place from the 14th to 17th September 2011 in Rome, Italy, covered the most recent clinical research from the field of endodontology. The ESE Rome congress was divided in different sections. The first and most attended section was Cleaning and Disinfection, the greatest challenge in endodontics.

Fotona’s latest dental laser LightWalker has been recognized as one of 16 dental products to receive the Pride Institute’s Best of Class Technology Award for 2011. LightWalker was an honoree in the Therapeutic category.

The July 2011 issue of Dentistry Today, America’s leading clinical news magazine for dentists, featured the LightWalker AT dental laser as one of the TOP 100 dental products of the year.

We are proud to announce that this year's IDS, the world's leading dental trade show, saw Fotona leading the way in the laser dentistry market with the launch of its latest laser system LightWalker.

We are proud to announce that Fotona will launch its latest dental laser system LightWalker at IDS 2011 at the end of the month.

Dr. Jugoslav Jovanović, DDS has become the newest Laser and Health Academy expert clinical lecturer. Dr. Jovanović received his expert lecturer certificate from LAHA following his presentation of the new TouchWhiteTM laser tooth-whitening method at the dental office of Dr. Katarina Svahnstrom in Uppsala, Sweden on 24 November 2010.

June 15th, 2010. Last week, Dr. Mark P. Colonna became the newest Laser and Health Academy expert clinical lecturer and presented new treatment methods in the field of endodontics and periodontics.

June 11th, 2010. The Laser and Health Academy's Expert Clinical Lecturer, Zoran Lekic, MD, presented the numerous advantages of using Fotona’s VSP Er:YAG laser - as opposed to conventional (punch, needle or knife) or CO2 laser methods - in hair transplantation.

May 27th, 2010. The Laser and Health Academy (LAHA) has accepted five new reference doctors to its already impressive list of prominent members.

Fotona was honored by a visit of Charles H. Townes to its exhibit during the ASLMS 2010 annual conference. Dr. Matjaz Lukac, Fotona President, had the privilege of meeting with Charles H. Townes, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and educator, to introduce Fotona’s latest Dynamis range of laser systems.

We would like to inform you that IdealDent, the Turkish Fotona partner in laser dentistry, Gaziantep University – Faculty of Dentistry and the Gaziantep Chamber of Dentistry are organizing the 1st Idealclub Knowledge Sharing Days event which will focus on the use of lasers in dental implantology. The symposium will take place from 4th to 6th of June 2010 in Gaziantep, Turkey.