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Resolving Tongue Habits Using Clear Aligners

Dr. Melissa Shotell, DMD, MS · ·

Patients often have underlying habits that are not apparent until orthodontic treatment begins.  Often these habits are not fully expressed until the tongue has room to move and new appliances to investigate.  With new appliances in the mouth patients can also have a heightened awareness of the new …

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3D Printed Dental Mirror Handle High-Vac HVE Aerosol Prototype

Dr. Michael Scherer, DMD, MS · ·

Aerosols are a challenge to manage in a dental office, especially that from a high-speed handpiece or ultrasonic hygiene machine. Some articles have described the challenges of aerosol generation during dental procedures including dental hygiene. We are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in the …

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Customizing Clear Aligners for Elastics

Dr. Melissa Shotell, DMD, MS · ·

In my experience, many clinicians limit the use of clear aligner therapy to class I malocclusions. Nothing wrong with that, it just seems that aligner treatment has been promoted as "for only simple class I cases..." which in my opinion is just crazy! Clear aligners are also really great for class …

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Working with KeySplint Soft 3D Printed Occlusal Guards

Dr. Michael Scherer, DMD, MS · ·

I 3D print a lot... and have been do so for years in my dental office. Why? First... it's just fun, but, in reality, we are making things that solves and/or serves a need. In Dentistry, clinical necessity is the mother of development [i.e. invention]! We have the need to produce things in our dental …

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Isopropyl vs Ethyl Alcohol – Which Should I Use For 3D Printing?

Dr. Michael Scherer, DMD, MS · ·

For many of us who have been involved with 3D printing for sometime, we've got the methods down. - design, export, import into printer software, mix resins, fill tank, click print, come back later, remove build-platform, remove resin from build-platform, clean platform, wash prints in alcohol, dry, …

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