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!”…
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…
While I don’t do a ton of cast post and core restorations, there is a need for them in my practice as they are extremely predictable in those challenging case when situations demand it. Typically those situations include many but the most poignant are those patients with little remaining ferrule…
I am obsessed with two things – implant overdentures and digital dentistry. There’s something about how happy patients are with overdentures and removable partial dentures with implant retention! Then, to be able to combine digital dentistry and intraoral scanning with overdenture type cases, it’s incredible. I just cannot imagine going…
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 regards that the NY Times pointed…
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…
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, UV cure. Post-processing…