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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 maxillary and mandibular AllonX at the …
[Read more...] about Which Arch First? – Properly Sequencing Double Arch AllonX Cases
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 …
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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 and usual way of doing …
[Read more...] about Angled Screw Channel – A Paradigm Shift in Implantology?
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 …
[Read more...] about Using the Plane Tool to Make Contacts Between Adjacent Implants Ideal
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 …
