INTRODUCTION Patients’ simple desires for a better smile have taken clinicians, dental technicians, and material scientists on a complex search for restorative materials.

INTRODUCTION When placing direct restorations, particularly in the anterior, dentists need a material that handles well, provides excellent aesthetics, and will last for.

INTRODUCTION With an increased awareness of the effects that dentistry can have on self-confidence, self-image, and self-esteem, today’s patients come to the dental.

INTRODUCTION The constant quest and demand for an aesthetic, healthy, and harmonious smile imposed by modern society; in addition to the concern by.

INTRODUCTION When cementing an inlay or onlay, every dentist dreads seating the restoration only to find that cement oozes perfectly out of all.

INTRODUCTION Have you ever walked into a hygiene exam check to find your orthodontically banded patient anxiously waiting for an answer? “When?” the.

INTRODUCTION What Makes Patients Want to Improve Their Smile? Smile design principles give us a guide as to what is considered aesthetic.1 Undoubtedly,.

INTRODUCTION White spots on teeth have always created a dilemma for us in clinical dentistry. We commonly see many of these cases in.

INTRODUCTION Directly related to increased focus on “the smile makeover” in the media, patients no longer visit their dentist simply for preventative cleanings.

INTRODUCTION Historically, dentistry has been a “fix-it-to-relieve-pain” profession. Patients present when they have pain, lose a filling or crown, or chip or fracture.