July 2011

Implant Retention

Patient Treatment and Healing

Many patients, and potential patients, are unhappy with the appearance of their smiles. Some have the financial ability and the enthusiasm to improve their smiles through orthodontics, veneers, and crowns; far more cannot afford the expensive longer-term treatment that is necessary. Or at least, cannot justify the time and money simply because they cannot imagine … Read more

How many of the procedures learned in dental school are you still using today? Whether you graduated 30, 20, 10, or even two years ago, chances are that your techniques and materials are vastly different. While school provides the basic foundations and theoretical concepts for many of the disciplines in dentistry, it is in publications … Read more

The oral cavity is a difficult area to treat in restorative dentistry because of the constraints of the lips, tongue, cheeks, challenges for access to visualize and manipulate instruments, as well as, the position of the teeth that are being treated relative to the gingival tissues, which if improperly managed, bleed. While for operative dentistry … Read more

“Night ‘n Day Guard”

When was the last time you gave any thought to your vacuum system? Probably not once since it was bought and installed and probably not again until it needs replacement. Do you ever hear your suction, smell your suction, does it ever produce inadequate force to allow all the practitioners in the practice to operate … Read more

Today’s dentist is facing an unprecedented economic challenge. Just five years ago, missing cusps and ultra-wide box forms would call for an indirect restoration. Onlays and full crowns that frequently commanded a hefty insurance co-payment were well within reach of the average patient. The political expression, “it’s the economy stupid”, has dental ramifications that stress … Read more

Dentists have long advocated that protective mouthpieces be worn during active, and particularly contact sports. The mouth guard separates the arches by inserting a secured cushioning device around the teeth. Not only the does the mouth guard protect the integrity of the teeth from inadvertent crushing occlusal forces, but also acts as a shock absorber … Read more