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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Treatment Planning for Restorations: Available Options
Last month, I examined a set of criteria for the diagnosis of recurrent decay and when to change an old restoration. In this.
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Predictable Contacts With Composite Resins
Contemporary dentistry dictates a new paradigm in restoring posterior teeth. Historically, since the middle 1800s, teeth have been restored with either gold or.
Restorative
Long Lasting Restorations Using Compatible Duel Cured Materials
In many cases, cracks in teeth resulting from root canal treatment can require full coverage with a crown in order to restore them.
Restorative
The Indirect Composite Resin Restoration: An Underutilized Restorative Choice?
The number of direct composites being placed by dentists in the United States has climbed rapidly in the last 10 years. According to.
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The Elusive Tight Contact With Composite Restorations How to Achieve It
As composites became more popular for posterior class II fillings, there were more and more interproximal food traps, causing patients a frustration that.
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Aesthetic Posterior Crowns With Minimal Tooth Reduction
This article describes the rationale, clinical technique, and laboratory procedures for producing aesthetic porcelain-to-metal posterior crowns with gingival margins as thin as 0.4.
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A Simple and Elegant Impression Technique
Making an accurate representation of your preparations is paramount for well-fitting fixed prosthetics. This article describes a simple, 1-material, 2-step impression technique. The.
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It’s All in Your Contacts! A Class II Matrix Roundup
Few things in dentistry frustrate practitioners more than, after having created the perfect class II preparation and restored the tooth with composite resin,.
