As the closing article in the Nancy Case Study series, I’ll be discussing Nancy’s final restorations. I ended up going with a set of crowns made from Feldspathic porcelain. Obviously, how you place your crowns is very dependent on … Read more
17 hours ago by Frank Spear 0 Comments
People like to believe that there is something mysterious or special about how successful dentists and their teams reach the highest level. It really comes down to the fact that they simply engage at that level. They have a sense … Read more
23 hours ago by Imtiaz Manji 3 Comments
Let’s say you are to restore # 19 with an MO composite restoration so you have given a 2% Lidocaine 1:100k epinephrine inferior alveolar nerve block to the patient. After 10 minutes of waiting you start the prep on the … Read more
Yesterday by Vivek Mehta 5 Comments
If there is one gift you can give the members of your team, it is clarity. Clarity for the overall vision for the practice. Clarity for how they fit into that vision. Clarity for your expectations. Clarity for how their … Read more
Yesterday by Imtiaz Manji 0 Comments
Recently I wrote about the importance of paying close attention to the pulpal spaces on radiographs. While the prognosis of the tooth discussed last time was hopeless, I would like to share another example from the same patient and fortunately … Read more
2 days ago by John Carson 2 Comments
You will always have some patients who choose to accept nothing more than having you “fix” their most immediate care concerns. But at the same time you’d be surprised how many will commit to ideal care—or at least a higher … Read more
2 days ago by Imtiaz Manji 1 Comment
Implant position is critical to esthetic success, especially when the patient has a high smile line and is esthetically aware. At times, using an angled abutment that changes the long axis of the restoration can be helpful, at other times … Read more
3 days ago by Steve Ratcliff 2 Comments
Some of my favorite times in my career have come when I have taken the better part of a day and gone into “lockdown” with a number of my closest colleagues and creative advisors to develop a new program or … Read more
3 days ago by Imtiaz Manji 0 Comments
As I stated in part I of this series, the Nancy case study was used as part of a three-day ceramic enhancement workshop. Each dentist who signed up for the course was given the shade photographs, final impression, the go … Read more
6 days ago by Frank Spear 1 Comment
I often talk about the difference between “in practice” revenue-producing time and “on practice” clinical and professional development time, and how both are vitally important to success in dentistry. But I often find that when it comes to “in practice” … Read more
6 days ago by Imtiaz Manji 0 Comments
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