A Winner for Versatility Across All Classes
A DPS Readers’ Choice winner, Shofu’s Beautifil Flow Plus X is a bioactive nano-hybrid flowable composite for esthetic, cost-efficient restorations with clinically proven, long-term healthful properties
If you think a dental restorative and a flat-screen TV have nothing in common, think again. Although different as night and day, the factors considered before purchasing are essentially the same. There are the features and benefits, the question of reliability and performance, and, of course, the cost. Flat screens aside, clinicians struggle to find time to research products, but DPS readers covered all those points—and more—when choosing Beautifil Flow Plus X from Shofu as a winner for flowable composites in the 2023 Readers’ Choice Awards. It’s a result echoed by Thomas Dudney, DMD, in Alabaster, AL.
“Beautifil Flow Plus X is a versatile product and there’s just so many uses for it,” Dr. Dudney shared. “It’s easy to use anywhere in the mouth, with great handling properties and it makes treatments—and my life—much easier!”
Works For Every Class
FDA-approved for all restorative classes—including occlusal and cusp—Beautifil Flow Plus X releases and recharges fluoride in an oral environment. Thanks to the company’s proprietary bioactive Giomer Technology—a formulation of 6 healthful ions that greatly reduces secondary decay and restorative failure—the composite offers high flexural strength, less shrinkage, and a low wear resistance. Featuring a smaller, 400-nanometer particle size for more surface gloss in significantly less time, Beautifil Flow Plus X provides effortless polishability, radiopacity, and highly esthetic restorations.
“The smaller particle size allows it to polish well, and it holds the polish and shine longer without sacrificing strength,” Dr. Dudney added. “It extrudes easily, and it has a nice tip design that I can bend for harder-to-reach places.”
Two Convenient Viscosities
Beautifil Flow Plus X is available in a zero flow viscosity for precision stacking and zero slumping, and a low flow for self-leveling and better adaptability to walls. “With Class IIs, especially something like a proximal box, I’ll put a layer down, and then use an incremental buildup technique as my final restoration,” said Dr. Dudney. “I have not found anything I like better for Class Vs, especially for the wedge-shaped lesions at the gingival margins, which are very easy to restore.”
Returning to the flat screen TV/restorative comparison, sometimes cost weighs heavily on purchase decisions, and Shofu also has that covered, with Beautifil Flow Plus X priced at 30% lower than comparative products on the market.
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