Lead the way in sustainability in the dental industry with LM-Dental. Wednesday February 28 from 9:30 to 16:00 hrs

  1. COMPANY

LM-Dental ( https://lm-dental.com/  ) 

  1. SEMINAR’s focus

Reflect upon sustainability aspects focusing on tools utilize in the dental industry, including their production footprint 

  1. DESCRIPTION

LM-Dental™ develops, produces and markets high-tech dental hand instruments and their tracking system together with ultrasonic devices, orthodontic appliances, and services related to these. We take great pride in turning dental care into a pleasant experience that is safer and more efficient than ever before.   For decades, our Nordic roots have been the bedrock of innovative and high-quality d ental products that are trusted by dental professionals and patients around the world. By continuously improving our trusted services and standards, we create genuine value for dental care professionals by making a difference where it counts: helping people in all aspects of dentistry.

The ergonomics has been the guiding light of our product development since the establishment of the company.  

  1. CHALLENGE

Background 

Typical hand instrument comprises of handle and two temperature hardened stainless steel tips. LM-Dental handle part is made out of aluminium inner part coated with injection molded silicone part. Silicone part is designed to be comfortable for clinician to use. From end-user (dental professional) perspective LM-Dental hand instruments are comfortable to use and effective in their clinical purpose (“Feel the difference”). 

Environmental aspects (e.g. carbon footprint, recycling) are becoming more and more important feature for dental hand instruments. Customers shall prefer products that have recycling in control and low carbon footprint. To continue to be competitive in this business LM-Dental needs to stay focused on these aspects. Clinical performance of products is essential but if two products are clinically equally good, environmental aspects can be critical decision points in the future. 

Some hand instruments have extremely long lifetimes. Restorative or diagnostics instruments can last tens of years of use in optimum cases. However, hand scalers that are used to remove calculus are short lived products in clinical use. Scaling teeth will make standard stainless steel instruments dull quite fast and resharpening is needed after every few patients. Or alternatively, instrument can be coated with hard coating that don’t require frequent sharpening. However, even with coating instruments wore out after around 50 patients and needs to be replaced with new instrument. Old instrument shall be disposed. Lifetime of single hand scaler in practical use can be e.g. six months. 

Task for the session  

  • To explore the advantages, disadvantages and aspects missing in typical hand instruments in the dental industry:  scalers and curettes.   
  • To discuss what improvements can be done, without changing the design of the product, to develop a more competitive and foot-print friendly curettes?  

Outcome 

  • Ideas for a more competitive products for the dental industry addressing sustainability matters including the production footprint.  
  1. DAY and TIME

Wednesday February 28th from 9:30 to 16:00 hrs  

  1. SEMINAR  LOCATION and TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Seminar takes place at LM-Dental facilities: Norrby strandväg 8, 21600 Pargas

  • 9:30 Departure from UTU to LM-Dental in Parainen  
  • 10:00  arrival to LM–Dental
  • 10:00 – 10:30  Introduction  company presentation
  • 10:30 – 11:30  Visit the plant
  • 11:30 – 12:00   Introduction of challenge – divide in team
  • 12:00 – 12:30  Eat
  • 12:30 – 2:30  Working
  • 2:30  – 3:30 –Presentation of their outcomes
  • 3:30  –  Return UTU  
  1. ENROLLMENT  

Please enroll to the seminar session by filling the following form: https://link.webropol.com/ep/lmdental 

The enrollment closes on Thursday Feb 22th at 16hrs.

  1. PRE ASSIGNMENT  

To prepare ourselves and enrich our conversation during our Industrial Seminar session with LM-Dental, we should prepare ourselves by working on the pre-assignment four tasks in the pre-assignment. Please submit the report of your pre-assignment by February 23rd.

You can find the instructions of the pre-assignment following this link

The deadline for the submission of the pre-assignment is Friday February 23rd

 

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