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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!" Maybe you even have those same folks who come …
[Read more...] about “Nobody Could Exactly Copy My 52-Year Old Denture… Until Now!”
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 …
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 …
[Read more...] about Working with 3D Printing Model to Fabricate Metal CoCr RPD Castings
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 of …
[Read more...] about Digital Cast Post & Core – Hybrid Intraoral Scan and PVS Technique
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 …
[Read more...] about Intraoral Scanning Partials Using the LOCATOR Scan Body
