Scenes from the 2019 Glidewell Dental Symposium in Orlando, Fla.

President and CEO Jim Glidewell, pictured with his wife, Parvina, said to Dental Tribune at the 2019 Glidewell Dental Symposium that the company has become very large in research and development. (Photo: José Antonio Rosario for Dental Tribune)

Jack Hahn, who created the Hahn Implants System, talked about placement of ‘Emergency Implants.’ (Photo: José Antonio Rosario for Dental Tribune)

More than 1,000 dental practitioners atended the Glidewell Dental Symposium in Orlando, Fla. (Photo: José Antonio Rosario for Dental Tribune)

Anamaria Muresan, Glidewell’s clinical research director, said the new BruxZir Esthetic has added translucency which allows clinicians to use it in both the aesthetic zone and the posterior zone. (Photo: José Antonio Rosario for Dental Tribune)

Showing to a customer the ‘glidewell io,’ the digital design system that integrates intraoral scanning data, intuitive digital design and suggestions for milling materials. (Photo: José Antonio Rosario for Dental Tribune)

Katrina van Duyn and Christina Mahi showed Glidewell’s provisional and removable dentures. (Photo: José Antonio Rosario for Dental Tribune)

David Hochberg’s lectura at the meeting focused on ‘Treatment Planning of the Posterior Implant Bridge.’ (Photo: José Antonio Rosario for Dental Tribune)

A slow motion photo booth were fake money was thrown away as a way to simbolize savings from using Glidewell products. (Photo: José Antonio Rosario for Dental Tribune)

Jesse Hernandez showed the ‘glidewell io’ digital design system, Glidewell’s newest innovation in digital dentistry technology. (Photo: José Antonio Rosario for Dental Tribune)

Tampa-based Dr. Nicolas Nieto said the event was ‘well organized, and the topics discussed very good.’ (Photo: José Antonio Rosario for Dental Tribune)

A view of the exhibit area at the 2019 Glidewell Dental Symposium. (Photo: José Antonio Rosario for Dental Tribune)