I treat a lot of overdenture patients and, ultimately over time, start seeing a lot of the patients for recall appointments down the road. How do we take care of our long-term Zest Dental Solutions LOCATOR and other attachment system overdentures? As a general rule, after delivery of the overdenture,…
If you treat enough denture patients you’ve likely got those patients – you know, the ones that come in seemingly griping, “I need a new denture, but I’ve had my denture for years and I just want a new one similar to my current one, I like how it fits!”…
You’ve got a patient sitting in front of you in your dental office who is a candidate for double arch AllonX. It may be your first AllonX case… you may have experience with doing single arch cases… but one starts to wonder – “How am I going to sequence the…
Guided surgery for dental implants is an amazing clinical procedure and one that is used on a regular and consistent basis globally. A surgical guide is simply a device fabricated from 3D printing or CAD-CAM processes that assists the surgeon during drilling procedures to control the angle and depth of…
I don’t use the term “paradigm shift” lightly… although when I use it I try to mean it. Why make a statement out of a simple phrase? Well, when we discuss a paradigm shift, it implies a new way of thinking challenging what we historically have accepted as the standard…
Creating crown counters between adjacent implant crowns can be tricky to get just right. If too broad, it can interfere with seating… if not broad enough can promote food impaction between the embrasure spaces. This post was inspired by Dr. Mark Kwon’s post in BITES Facebook group because he brought…
There’s a lot of excitement out there about direct imaging of edentulous patients using intraoral scanning, much of the excitement is for good reasons! Intraoral scanning of edentuous ridges is the closest we can get to for truly mucostatic impressions and is really cool for both patient and clinician/technician. The…
PVS impressions and RPD cases have long been a terrifying combination for me. If it’s not getting PVS stuck in deep undercuts, it’s pouring the models and hearing the dreaded “pop” as one of my abutment teeth fractures off the model!! Thankfully digital technology comes to the rescue [again] for…