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EAST LANSING and ANN ARBOR, Mich. — GreenMark Biomedical Inc. announced that the company has been selected as a 2020 Cellerant Best of Class Technology Award recipient.
“Announcing the award winners is especially meaningful this year,” said Dr. Lou Shuman, DMD, CAGS, CEO of Cellerant and founder of the Best of Class Technology Awards. “The Chicago Midwinter, where the Best of Class Panel selected the award winners, was really the last in person event for the dental community in 2020. Dentists and their staff, as well as dental products and technology vendors have overcome many unbelievable challenges since that time. It’s exciting and uplifting to change the narrative for a moment by recognizing these deserving award winners and sharing these amazing technologies with our colleagues.”
Dental caries is the most prevalent chronic disease in the world, and GreenMark’s product, LumiCare™ Caries Detection Rinse, identifies caries including early stage dental ‘pre-cavities’ by targeting and illuminating porous sub-surface lesions in enamel, thereby aiding in the detection of caries. Once identified, the disease can be treated non-invasively to prevent the formation of cavities. The technology utilizes bioresorbable starch-based nanoparticles which degrade into harmless materials by the time the patient is ready to leave the dental office.
“It’s always an honor to help our peers identify the best technologies,” said Marty Jablow, DMD, Best of Class panel member. “From the outset, an important goal of the Best of Class Awards has been to alert the dental community as to what technologies are new and important to the modern practice.”
“Winning a Best of Class Award says a lot about the recipient’s ability to innovate and establish category leadership,” said Pam Maragliano-Muniz, DMD, Cellerant Best of Class panel member. “In any given year, the panel may skip a category if there’s no standout technology. To be chosen a product must be truly exceptional.”
The 2020 Cellerant Best of Class Technology Award is selected by a panel of the most prominent technology leaders in dentistry: John Flucke, DDS, technology editor and chief dental editor for Dental Products Report, Marty Jablow, DMD, known as America’s dental technology coach, Paul Feuerstein, technology editor for Dentistry Today, Pamela Maragliano-Muniz, DMD, chief editor of Dentistry IQ and editorial director of DACE, Chris Salierno, DDS, Chief Editor of Dental Economics, and Lou Shuman, DMD, CAGS, founder and creator of the Best of Class Technology Award with national columns on technology in Dental Economics, Dental Products Report, and Canada’s Oral Health journals
“We are most grateful for the warm welcome the dental community is offering us, and I am personally thrilled, super excited, jumping for joy, and ecstatic to receive a Best of Class award for our first product even before it’s widely available on the market,” said Dr. Steven Bloembergen, Ph.D., GreenMark’s founder, Chairman and CEO.
