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Recognize Complications With a Shift

Recognize Complications With a Shift

It's essential to have confidence in your examination skills to predictably and effectively treat occlusal problems. Most of our patients will exhibit...

| 11 years ago
The New Value Roles: The Provider

The New Value Roles: The Provider

This is where our week-long discussion of value roles ends, and it's appropriate that we finish with the Provider. This is where all the effort comes...

| 11 years ago
How Psychological Factors Affect Oral Health

How Psychological Factors Affect Oral Health

What can psychologists teach us about dental health? Psychologists from the New York University College of Dentistry, Richard Heyman and Amy Smith Slep,...

| 11 years ago
The New Value Roles: The Treatment Coordinator

The New Value Roles: The Treatment Coordinator

When my late wife, Shahinool, was undergoing cancer treatment at the Mayo Clinic we got an up-close look at how their legendary interdisciplinary care...

| 11 years ago
The New Value Roles: The Relationship Coordinator

The New Value Roles: The Relationship Coordinator

Contrary to popular belief, attracting new patients is not the number one factor in achieving practice growth. The most important factor is keeping the...

| 11 years ago
Three Key Tooth Positions for Your Orthodontist
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Three Key Tooth Positions for Your Orthodontist

When upper lateral incisors are missing and the treatment plan is to substitute the upper cuspids to replace the upper lateral incisors, when and how...

| 11 years ago
Seating and Adjusting: Why is Bigger Sometimes Easier?
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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.

| 11 years ago
The Three Goals of Equilibration
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The Three Goals of Equilibration

One of the most confusing areas of dentistry is the concept of altering a patient's natural occlusion through equilibration. To fully understand equilibration,...

| 11 years ago
Monthly Spotlight

Monthly Spotlight

With all of the great content offered by the Spear Faculty and guest writers each month, we want to make certain that you don't miss any of it. The following...

| 11 years ago
What Can Dentists Learn From the Parenting Experience

What Can Dentists Learn From the Parenting Experience

Raising kids can be difficult work, as anyone who has them knows. When they're very young, they need constant attention (and diaper changing) and cost...

| 11 years ago
Say Goodbye to the Rag Wheel?
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Say Goodbye to the Rag Wheel?

I imagine that every dentist has at one time or another caught a plastic removable appliance (flipper) on a rag wheel and spun it into oblivion. It's...

| 11 years ago
Finishing Power: One of the Secrets to Real Leadership

Finishing Power: One of the Secrets to Real Leadership

I study leadership the way dentists study clinical care—it's my profession. I've led successful businesses myself for more than 30 years, and a big...

| 11 years ago