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Recommended Follow-up Appointments and Checking Inserts for LOCATOR Overdentures

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 …

The “Reference Denture Technique” – Key for Simplifying Digital Denture Workflows

Dr. Michael Scherer, DMD, MS · ·

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 …

Implant Overdentures: To Frame or Not To Frame? “That is The Question!”

Dr. Michael Scherer, DMD, MS · ·

I teach a lot of implant overdenture treatment and therapy. It's not only a huge part of my practice, it's a topic that I have extensively researched, published, and helped spread the word to clinicians around the world in both in-person and online.One question I get almost universally is, …

Intraoral Scanning Partials Using the LOCATOR Scan Body

Dr. Michael Scherer, DMD, MS · ·

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 …

How to Cement Ti-Bases to Zirconia Crowns Using Microetching and Resin Cement

Dr. Michael Scherer, DMD, MS · ·

I do a lot of implant dentistry and a big portion of that is digitally produced! There's a certain amount of excitement surrounding creating something from scratch. Whether it's baking a loaf of bread, making a bowl from clay, or fabricating a dental restoration... we are makers. Dentists can create …