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With careful case selection, providing a restoration immediately following the loss of a tooth offers to the patient the benefit of minimal inconvenience. A thorough review of literature 1-2 reveals good success reported with this procedure when assessing the implant integration. However, the additional benefit of carefully planned soft tissue management cannot be overestimated. In … Read more

The world is in the midst of a significant economic readjustment. Fortunately, due to prudent banking and responsible governments, Canada has fared better than most of the countries of the world. More specifically for our profession, the dental world is relatively insulated from general economic trends, both up and down. While elective procedures may decrease … Read more

Enamel bonding has been routinely and successfully used in dentistry for about thirty years, but reliable dentin bonding has been possible only during the latter half of that period. Dozens of dentin/enamel adhesives are available on the market today. Although the sheer number of materials can be confusing to clinicians, these adhesives can be easily … Read more

Impression materials have certainly come a long way since the introduction of “modern” rubber base impression material. Rubber base impression materials were difficult and hard to use and foul-smelling. In the evolutionary course of impression material development we next moved to polyether and vinyl polysiloxane (VPS) materials. These materials were advantageous in that they were … Read more

Dental lasers have been commercially available for several decades. They have been thoroughly documented in the dental literature. Lasers are an exciting technology, widely used in medicine, kind to tissues, and excellent for healing. So why have they not been more widely embraced by the practicing dentist? There is a wide perception that the dental … Read more

Increasingly, our patients are aware of, and demanding, tooth-colored dental restorative materials instead of traditional silver-mercury amalgam. Anterior composites, critical for the aesthetic smiles that are so much in vogue today, have been the standard of practice for more than a generation; for the less readily visible posterior teeth, it is estimated that more than … Read more

Dental technologies, techniques, and materials allow us to achieve results that were considered unachievable just several years ago. The public’s appreciation for dentistry and it’s presence in the media is at an all time high. Whereas dentists used to be associated with pain, held in fear, and regarded as “drillers, fillers, and billers,” today they … Read more

Our patients are experiencing an unprecedented explosion of access to information about their lives as a result of new technology. Whether it is cyberspace, PDA’s, social networking, GPS devices our patients are incorporating mobile and agile technology into every aspect of their lives, including their health care. This backdrop underscores how important it is that … Read more

It is an inconvenient truth: the foundation of most dental procedures is diagnostic, radiologic guesswork derived in large part from the use of two-dimensional (2D) film and digital-based imagery. While the guesswork is a distillation and integration of accumulated data synergized by years of education, experience and deductive reasoning, it is guesswork nonetheless. Cone Beam … Read more

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The question of whether or not to prophylactically remove impacted third molars in young patients has been a topic of heated debate for many years. On the one hand, there are those who have argued that such treatment will prevent a number of subsequent problems that are associated with these teeth, ranging from dental caries … Read more

A 49-year-old female with a complicated past medical history reports to her family doctor that she has been experiencing vague pain in the upper left neck under the angle of her jaw with a sensation that there is something to clear from her throat but she is unable to. This had been occurring while jogging … Read more

Temporal space infections are rare and infrequently reported in the literature. Abscesses in this space have been reported secondary to maxillary sinusitis, maxillary sinus fracture, temporomandibular arthroscopy and drug injection.1-4More commonly, temporal space infections are associated with the extraction of infected and non-infected teeth.5-9 Those infections of odontogenic origin are far more frequently associated with … Read more

Removal of third molars (wisdom teeth) remains one of the most common procedures and indications for referral to Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons. While surgery is generally considered to be routine and may even be classified as a typical “rite of passage while growing up” in the broadest sense of common culture, it does remain at … Read more