Buffalo Dental Manufacturing.

Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co. Inc. lists its address as 159 Lafayette Drive, P.O. Box 678, Syosset, New York 11791, with phones 516-496-7200 and 800-828-0203. The company site says a majority of its products are manufactured in the United States and that the catalog covers handpieces, lab products, lab equipment, and vacuum-forming material. Catalog links on the homepage separate abrasives, burs, an operatory catalog, equipment, instruments, lab products, and vacuum forming.

The lab-equipment pages are specific. Vibrators run from the small No. 1A, which Buffalo calls its most popular, to the No. 200 for multiple flasks. The No. 1B replaces the rotary switch with a foot pedal. Platforms are rubber-covered. Those details matter when a lab is pouring several flasks at once versus a single model in an office lab.

Optiblast II is the microblaster. Buffalo describes abrasive micro-sandblasting as a step before repairing or cementing, and it publishes a separate Opti Workstation so the dust stays in a small cabinet rather than on the bench. The laser pinsetter is a different machine: it locates dowel-pin holes with a laser over the drill and is described as FDA registered. Neither machine is a clinical handpiece.

Clinical and lab rotary work is the X35 and V35 electric handpiece line, both specified to 35,000 rpm, plus Abbott-Robinson brushes and Buffalo knives for lab acrylic and plaster. Vacuum-forming sheet goods are their own catalog. A practice with a small in-office lab and a commercial lab will not buy the same vibrator. Match the platform size to the flask, which is the point of publishing four models instead of one.

Buffalo suits a dental laboratory and an office that pours its own models. The No. 200 is the large vibrator. The 1A and 1B are the countertop units. Optiblast II and the workstation are for technicians who sandblast metal, porcelain, or composite before a repair. The flask and press guide and the separator guide sit next to this equipment because a vibrator does not pack a denture by itself.

The X35 and V35 are bench handpieces, not the air-driven high-speed in the operatory. A lab that finishes acrylic, metal, and ceramic is the buyer Buffalo describes for Abbott-Robinson brushes. Vacuum-forming accessories are a separate catalog for offices that make trays or guards in house.

A multi-operatory clinic that never pours stone does not need this line. Those offices are looking at patient chairs and delivery units in the equipment directory, not a pinsetter.

Compare Buffalo with other lab-equipment makers, not with a chair company. Keystone Industries sells denture acrylics, waxes, and Pro-Form vacuum-forming materials. Buffalo sells the vibrator, the blaster, and its own vacuum-forming catalog. The denture acrylic guide chooses the resin. Buffalo's vibrator is how you get bubbles out of the pour.

Inside the Buffalo line, the choice is size and control. A three-speed switch, a variable dial, and a foot pedal are different ways to run the same job. The X35 console can power two handpieces. The V35 console uses four fixed speed steps and is the one Buffalo says is made in the United States. Read that sentence as applying to the V35 console, not to every SKU.

Optiblast II is a non-recirculating blaster with a needle valve. Other labs use a recirculating cabinet from a different maker. Buffalo does not claim those machines are interchangeable. Ask which abrasive the Optiblast is specified for before you pour a different powder into the jar.

Order the vibrator by model number. A No. 200 is 19 pounds with a large platform. A No. 1A is 6 pounds and about 4.5 inches on a side. Shipping and bench space follow from those published sizes. The X35 page states a one-year warranty. Ask whether the V35, the pinsetter, and the Optiblast carry the same term. This profile did not find a single warranty that covers the whole catalog.

Service is the Syosset phone and sales@mailbdm.com. There is no dealer network described on the pages reviewed. Confirm who repairs a spindle and whether brushes for the X35 are a user part. The handpiece page mentions upgraded carbon brushes on the X35, which is a maintenance item, not a clinical bur.

FDA registration is stated for the laser pinsetter, not as a blanket for knives and brushes. Vacuum-forming sheet thickness and the denture acrylic you heat-cure are separate purchases. Read the acrylic guide before you assume a Buffalo sheet is a denture base.