Impressions can be considered one of the fundamentals for fixed prosthetic dental care. A superb impression ranks with tissue management and prep design..

What do you do when a new patient, who happens to be the spouse of one of your best patients, rushes into your.

Adhering to smile design principles is essential when initiating the restoration of teeth in the anterior region of the mouth. When the dentist.

Imagine your patient arrives in your office for a three-unit bridge to be done while they wait. No more temporary bridges to be.

The Cracked Tooth Syndrome (CTS) is both a transient and progressive condition. Diagnosis of CTS can be difficult, appropriate treatment is necessary to.

After an in-depth study of viscous elastomeric impression materials and their behavior, I invented the laminar impression technique (LIT) in the mid 1970s..

Provisional restorations are an important and desirable restoration in today’s practice. The advent of implant dentistry, total mouth cosmetic restorations, increased tooth life.

The class III restoration is nominally a “one-surface” restoration on the proximal contacting surface of the tooth. It is generally formed with composite.

Figure 1. Completed preparation after removal of all decay. Note the extent of the preparation, especially at the distal. Figure 2. Hybridized preparation.

An increasingly discernible trend occurring in dentistry is the movement away from metallic components in the restored dentition. The motivation for this trend.