Focus On: Digital Dental Marketing
Roger P. Levin, DDS, explains how the Internet and digital media have altered the marketing landscape for dentists. Q: How has dental marketing.
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Implants
Should General Practitioners Place Implants?
INTRODUCTION My favorite reply, when asked why an endodontist also places implants, is, “Even orthodontists place implants now, and they don’t even like.
Restorative
Modern Posterior Composite Placement: An Innovative Single-Increment Technique
INTRODUCTION With the increasing demand for aesthetic restorations and development of adhesive techniques, composite resins have become the material of choice for many.
Pediatric Dentistry
Universal-Size Mouthguards: An Affordable Alternative for the Young Athlete
In the last 7 decades, there has been much interest in preventing dental injuries that occur during participation in sports.1-16 Teeth can be.
Viewpoint
Clean Out the Closet! Use the New Gingivitis Code
Let’s imagine that you have a patient who presents with inflamed and hemorrhagic gingiva, light to moderate subgingival calculus, and generalized pseudo-pocketing. For.
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Focus On: Social Media
Lou S. Shuman, DMD, CAGS, highlights the importance of a dental practice’s Web presence, outlining 14 online rules of engagement. Q: How should.
Endodontics
Does Anatomy Matter? Having the Tenacity to Solve Complex Challenges
INTRODUCTION As dentistry and dental medicine become an increasingly elaborate academic system, actions taken on the clinical frontline are required more often to.
Aesthetics
Shade-Matching Challenge: A Single Central Incisor
Achieving a good color match when restoring a single incisor is probably among the most difficult aesthetic challenges for any dentist (Figure 1)..
Aesthetics
Treating the Amelogenesis Imperfecta Patient
INTRODUCTION Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) represents a group of inherited conditions that affect the structure and appearance of the enamel of all or nearly.
Viewpoint
The Future Dental Auxillary Is Here
You step into your operatory and greet your patient. Then, the local anesthetic is administered and allowed to reach a profound state. Next,.
