The Laminar Impression Technique
After an in-depth study of viscous elastomeric impression materials and their behavior, I invented the laminar impression technique (LIT) in the mid 1970s..
Restorative
Stainless Steel Reinforced Resin Retained Bridges
Provisional restorations are an important and desirable restoration in today’s practice. The advent of implant dentistry, total mouth cosmetic restorations, increased tooth life.
Prosthetics
Grafting the Anterior Maxilla After Tooth Loss From External Resorption: A Case Report
External resorption often creates severe bone loss that can affect prosthetic treatment planning. This is especially problematic when the area involved is in.
Endodontics
Another Look at Root Canal Obturation
Many ingenious techniques have been devised for what should be a simple process of filling a root canal space. Some techniques require average.
Aesthetics
Full-Mouth Reconstruction With Increased Vertical Dimension: Case Report
Everything is continually changing and evolving in cosmetic dentistry. Materials and techniques seem to change every few months. And that’s not all. Cosmetic.
Hygiene
ReD Hot Hygiene, Part 4: H Is for Helpful
Help, or helpful, is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as: to contribute, to give assistance to; to further the progress or advancement; to be.
Periodontics
Correction of an Aesthetic Problem Related to Excessive Display of Gingiva
Chiche and Pinault1 describe in their text, Esthetics of Anterior Fixed Prosthodontics, the artistic and scientific principles applied to aesthetic dentistry. “Four factors.
Restorative
The Class III Posterior Composite Restoration
The class III restoration is nominally a “one-surface” restoration on the proximal contacting surface of the tooth. It is generally formed with composite.
Restorative
Using Flowable Composite as a Base for Amalgam Restorations
Figure 1. Completed preparation after removal of all decay. Note the extent of the preparation, especially at the distal. Figure 2. Hybridized preparation.
Prosthodontics
How to Make Exquisite Cosmetic Dentures a Profitable Part of Your Practice
Full dentures are shunned by many practitioners. They are considered by many to be the poor cousins of implants and crown and bridge.
