As a registered dental technician, Peter Burns was an opinion leader in crown and bridgework, general prosthetics and implant dentistry in his own full-service dental laboratory, which he built into a 50-person laboratory until he retired from it in 2009. He presented technical lectures, table clinics and demonstrations worldwide. As the Founder and CEO of Signature Mouthguards Pty Ltd, a research and development company focused on mouthguards, Peter led many R&D studies and reviews into mouthguards, which have set the benchmark from which many other mouthguards have been built worldwide. Peter is an active member of the British Standards Institute (BSI) and is certified in ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems. Peter is the inventor of ninr international patents related to mouthguards and currently has three further international cases pending.
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Monday, June 27, 2016
The term "mouthguard" has been widely written about within the dental profession. However, the product comes in many different configurations — varying in thickness, extensions, the EVA material used, colors, embedded inclusions, constructed with or without a bite, and made with different equipment and different construction methods.
