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Union Dental and Drinkable-Air File for Patent Cooperation Treaty
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CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., Aug. 7, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Union Dental Holdings, Inc. (Pink Sheets:UDHI) (www.uniondental.com/ir) -- a provider of multi-state dental services for union members, announced today, as a part of its Joint Venture Agreement with Drinkable-Air recently announced, the filing of a patent (patent pending #13/548,128) to be used in dental operatories. Today the JV announced the filing of a Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) which will allow the JV thirty (30) months to file patents in approximately 150 different countries and the filing dates of those patent filings will allow protection under the patent pending status as of July 17, 2012 which was the original filing date for the patent in the USA.

OSHA For Dentistry recently wrote an article entitled "Recent Death from Contaminated Dental Waterlines Demonstrates Life & Death Importance of Monitoring Water Quality" written by Kerry Martin on April 4, 2012 which stated: "The dental community is on a high alert after an 82 year old Italian woman died in February due to complications related to Legionnaires' disease – a life threatening type of pneumonia caused by Legionella bacteria – which she acquired while receiving dental care."

Dr. George Green, CEO of UDHI, stated: "I have been concerned about this problem for many years and I have been working diligently on trying to find a solution. The recent filing of our patent by UDHI and Drinkable-Air relates directly to curing this type of problem with water used in dental offices. We are not just relying on our patent as our JV group will have a working model of the product to eliminate this problem in dental offices by sometime in October of this year."

Most recently the Company announced a Joint Venture Agreement with Drinkable Air to develop new products for the dental industry, and Energy Edge Technologies Corp (OTC:EEDG) had entered into an agreement to purchase all of Dutchess Private Equities Fund LTD shares and warrants in UDHI, making them a major shareholder in UDHI.