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Attack of the Collagen Eaters [Ed.]
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Techniques & Materials

Attack of the Collagen Eaters [Ed.]

The COLLAGEN EATERS have been released! When you prep a tooth, actually, when you create injury to any bodily tissue, some stuff called matrix...

| 11 years ago ›
How to Take a Protrusive Bite Record
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Techniques & Materials

How to Take a Protrusive Bite Record

A protrusive bite record is taken with Master wax with the mandible pushed forward into a protrusive movement so that the condyle has moved down the...

| 11 years ago ›
The Job Isn't Done Until the Images are Taken
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Techniques & Materials

The Job Isn't Done Until the Images are Taken

This patient is sporting a full set of original provisionals that I fabricated directly using copyplast formers. These photos will help Winter Lab...

| 11 years ago ›
What Do You Mean I Under-Prepped?
Techniques & Materials

What Do You Mean I Under-Prepped?

Have I created enough space for the restorative material that is planned? One way to test that is to take a well fitting copyplast, line it with a...

| 11 years ago ›
When the Unthinkable Happens [Special Journal Review]
Beyond Restoration

When the Unthinkable Happens [Special Journal Review]

Two years ago one of our Visiting Faculty experienced the unthinkable, the loss of a child, a young adult of infinite potential in her second year as...

| 12 years ago ›
I Can See Clearly Now
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Beyond Restoration

I Can See Clearly Now

If you are like me (read that as old, or rather, mature) you went all the way through dental school without magnification. I don't know how widespread...

| 12 years ago ›
Segmental Appliances and Risk
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Occlusion & Wear

Segmental Appliances and Risk

In the past few weeks I've had correspondence with three dentists asking about the use of an anterior bite plane appliance like the one pictured here....

| 12 years ago ›
Is Amalgam Dead?
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Techniques & Materials

Is Amalgam Dead?

I'm getting ready to go down to our clinic in Guatemala and some of my questions for our team were about amalgam. Do we have it there, what kind is it?...

| 12 years ago ›
Over-Etching?
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Techniques & Materials

Over-Etching?

How do you prepare your restorations for seating after try-in? When I act as my own technician by scanning and fabricating in the office, the porcelain...

| 12 years ago ›
Attack of the Collagen Eaters
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Techniques & Materials

Attack of the Collagen Eaters

The COLLAGEN EATERS have been released! When you prep a tooth, actually, when you create injury to any bodily tissue, some stuff called matrix metalloproteinases...

| 12 years ago ›
Seating and Adjusting: Why is Bigger Sometimes Easier?
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Occlusion & Wear

Seating and Adjusting: Why is Bigger Sometimes Easier?

Shortly after I seated the case shown here I was talking with a friend about the experience and marveling at how little occlusal adjustment I had to complete.

| 12 years ago ›
Templates Improved
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Esthetics

Templates Improved

The ingenius treatment planning template created by Frank Spear many years ago has been added to. The template gives the restorative dentist a visual...

| 12 years ago ›