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The Top Fluoride Varnish Just got Better – Centrix Releases FluoroDose® Fluoride Varnish in a new and improved Packaging

Centrix is taking FluoroDose®, award-winning fluoride varnish, to the next level. The same loved features remain, but now come in a fully enclosed LolliTray™, the patented, hygienic, and ergonomic design! The new package includes a smooth, easy peel cover, a finger rest for secure handling and a pop-up brush that’s easy to grab and hold. These custom features make each fluoride application easier, safer, faster, and more comfortable!

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Centrix Promoted a Gentler Means of Retraction with the Release of Access® Edge and AccessFLO®


Centrix continued on their mission of Making Dentistry Easier by addressing the need for improvement in retraction materials. In 2012 Access® Edge, a high-viscosity retraction paste, was released, quickly followed by a low-viscosity relative, AccessFLO®, in 2013. Both Access Edge and AccessFLO are kaolin clay-based gingival retraction pastes, containing 15% aluminum chloride, providing dual astringent and hemostatic action, and BOTH are packaged in single-patient tips!

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Centrix Changes Material Delivery with Another Industry First – AccuDose® Tubes & Plugs

If you’ve ever had a toothache you know it can affect everything you do, causing substantial pain and constant irritation. Lack of dental health can impair the physical and mental state in even the strongest people. Now imagine that level of pain coupled with your dentist not having a solution, or a solution not good enough to provide relief. That is what life was like before Centrix invented the tiny but powerful AccuDose® Tubes and Pugs and the first-ever C/R (composite resin) Syringes in 1970.

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Another Centrix Innovation, Tempit Temporary Filing Materials

Four unique temporary filling materials, one delivery system.

In February of 1984, Dr. Dragan addressed the challenges dental professionals were facing with temporary restoration materials by releasing Tempit® to the market. The frustration of messy applications, caused by mixing and spatulation, was replaced with the ease of a pre-filled tip that snapped directly into Centrix C/R guns for easy, precise applications.

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Another Centrix Innovation, the Disposable Benda® Brush Applicator

Sometimes complicated problems have a simple solution. In 1989, Dr. Dragan addressed a challenge he faced – how to accurately apply a variety of dental materials into hard-to-access application sites – with the invention of disposable bendable brushes. His colleagues laughed at the idea, but he didn’t let this slow him down on his pursuit of Making Dentistry Easier.

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INDUSTRY FIRST! Centrix invents the Dental Composite Syringe

Everyone has an idea or a dream; not everyone has the courage to pursue it. Dr. Dragan set himself apart by paying attention to the problems that fellow dentists were facing and then designing the solution. In 1968, while noting the challenges of mixing and placing two-part materials that were becoming more viscous, therefore, harder to spatulate and apply, he began his venture to develop a simple push syringe.

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