Worthy Causes to Consider Your Involvement: 

• Blood donations: Community Blood Centers..... www.savealifenow.org or American Red Cross www.redcross.org  
• Home Building: www.habitat.org   

NEED CEU's?? Get three (3) at NO COST to you, for all your staff that need them! Available FREE to all current active customers! Ask Doug (or Rich in St Louis area) or go to www.HeartlandHandpieceExpress.biz

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LED Replacement Bulbs now available for KaVo, Sirona, W&H & Star. Superior brightness without glare or haloes. Daylight glow at a color temperature of 5500k. Durable and up to 15 times longer lifespan than halogen lamps. Affordable & easy replacement; no downtime repairs. Call Doug @ 866-860-1658 to SEE MORE CLEARLY today!!

The component that fails most often on a high-speed air-driven handpiece is the turbine; as it degrades, the handpiece exhibits signs of impending failure that are all too familiar to the dental team. 

Turbines rotate at speeds ranging from 380,000 to 450,000 rpms, faster than anything else on the planet. Turbine speed can be categorized as free speed and active speeds. Free speed is the max rpm with no load. Active speed is the actual speed the turbine is reduced to when the cutting instrument engages the tooth structure. Most high-speed handpieces have an active speed in the range of 180,000 to 2000,000 rpm. This extremely high speed allows the clinician to cut through hardened tooth structure with ease, leaving a smooth, clean margin, with reduced trauma to the surrounding structure and tissue. As the turbine bearings wear, speed decreases. Clinically, this results in longer prep times with slower cutting and rougher margins.

Power, also referred to as "torque", is the measure of the handpiece's ability to remove tooth structure and is expressed as watts of energy, while torque is measured in oz/inc. Handpieces used to generate 10 to 13 watts, while newer handpiece models produce 15-18 watts and have smaller head sizes. The greater the power available to operate the cutting instrument, the less physical demand is placed on the operator's hand and wrist, which means less fatigue and reduced risk of long term injury. From Anatomy of a Handpiece; Understanding Handpiece Maintenance & Repairs.....our FREE TO CUSTOMERS THREE CEU Course. 

Member....................National Dental Handpiece Repair Association (NDHRA)

Committed..............to ongoing continuing education and training

Repair Partner........with Midwest, NSK America, Micromotors, MK-dent, Dental USA, Tony Riso

Offers.......................the longest warranty in the business SIX MONTHS on air driven highspeed overhauls

One Day Service.....when requested, on high speed air driven overhauls

Published Prices.....always available when Doug visits, or give us a call or on-line www. HeartlandHandpieceExpress.biz  

Experienced...........nearly SIX Years making Heartland Handpiece Express customers part of our growing famly owned and operated business

Experienced..........in business operations. Doug was 20 years in hotel management, 10 years in laundry ownership/equipment repairs and four years in business to business courier experience.

Doug & family members walked in the 33rd Annual Lenexa Freedom Run:

from left ....Sarah Bartley Fox, Sam & Chuck Uptergrove,  

Jenny Bartley Uptergrove, & Doug holding grandgirl Georgia Ann Fox

• If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly
• Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices & strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want
• The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car.   The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.
• Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite and you'll eat less
• If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.
• Money talks. Chocolate sings.
• Q. Why is there no such organization as Chocoholics Anonymous?                                                                                                     
  A. Because no one wants to quit.
• Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.