“Smart” Class V Preparation Design for Direct Composites
INTRODUCTION Class V composite restorations are placed every day in the restorative dental practice. Whether the cause is dental caries or abfraction, this.
Restorative
Lingual Veneers and Aesthetic Bonding: Augmentation, Not Amputation
Quite often, dentists are the first health professionals to recognize the effects of bulimia nervosa. As dentists, we all know how much havoc.
Viewpoint
Intentionally Being Better
OWNING A PRIVATE PRACTICE: MY FIRST WEEK On my first day of practice ownership, I realized my lone dental assistant had never assisted.
Implants
Effective and Simple Bone Grafting
INTRODUCTION Guided bone regeneration has long been used for the clinical preservation of extraction sockets prior to implant placement, in internal and external.
Viewpoint
Nutritional Status and Corpus Deterioratum
NUTRITIONAL STATUS The overlooked (or possibly ignored?) understanding is that whatever happens invasively and noninvasively causes the body to respond, and that response.
Prosthodontics
Achieving Success With Small-Diameter Implants
INTRODUCTION It is without question that dental implants are one of the most successful additions to modern dentistry. With a success rate of.
Treatment Planning
Close Encounters of the Nerve Kind
INTRODUCTION Dental implants are being sold in multiple sizes, shapes, and designs from many companies, all of them touting the advantages of their.
Aesthetics
Long-Term Follow-Up of Previously Published Cases
In the July 1997 issue of Dentistry Today, I presented 2 cases that were outside the usual parameters of everyday dental treatment planning..
Aesthetics
Complete Transformation of a Failing Dentition
Today, more and more patients are presenting to dental practices in need of some form of reconstruction of the teeth, gums, and jaw, or.
Restorative
Making Difficult Cases Easier With Supragingival Dentistry: Porcelain Onlays and Veneers
INTRODUCTION Recently, I was in a very popular chat room for dentists and became engaged in a heated debate with some colleagues who.
