Prosthetics

Improving Accuracy and Simplifying Treatment With Full Arch Removable Prosthetics: A Case Report

Patients who are currently wearing full arch removable prostheses may present requesting new dentures. The process may be simplified and the number of.

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Treatment Planning

The Treatment Planning Consultation: The Doctor/Technician Partnership

New laboratory-fabricated restorative materials are being introduced to doctors and dental laboratories at a record pace. Keeping up with the new advances is.

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Endodontics

The Operating Microscope and Ultrasonics; a Perfect Marriage

Clinicians who make the leap to microscope-centered dentistry often make this statement: “I can’t believe what I am seeing!” With time, these clinicians.

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Infection Control

Infection Control Practices for Dental Radiography

When taking dental radiographs, there is significant potential for cross-contamination of equipment and environmental surfaces with blood and/or saliva if proper aseptic techniques.

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Aesthetics

Restoring Anterior and Posterior Aesthetics and Function

Composite resins that are currently available can produce restorations that are highly aesthetic and long lasting. One classification of resin relies on the.

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Hygiene

Changes in Thought for Dental Hygienists

The practice of dental hygiene is ever-changing as the scientific community allocates more time toward (and discovers more details of) how periodontal disease.

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Periodontics

Regenerative Treatment of Severe Periodontitis in the Anterior Maxilla

Advanced periodontitis in the anterior maxilla may be associated with an unaesthetic smile. When severe attachment loss is present, comprehensive cosmetic reconstruction cannot.

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Restorative

The Lighter Side of “Bread-and-Butter Dentistry”

With all of the excitement in the media concerning cosmetic dental makeovers and “spa dentistry,” it’s possible sometimes for dentists to lose our.

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Prosthetics

The Implant Bar-Supported Denture

There are many ways to fabricate removable dentures connected to implants. Although this author and many others have constructed over-dentures with just 2.

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Endodontics

Silver Cone Re-treatment, or How to Do the “Hallway Dance!”

Like many of my dental colleagues, I have occasionally done what I affectionately call the hallway dance. This is not some new rave.

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